WMD's. What Scares YOU More?

[Tallpine]

be nice to the kids  they will pick yours

I'd rather they just took me out back with a .22, like you would an old faithful dog.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

ice floe for me

[slingshot]

Worst case scenario would be the possilbe extinction of the human race.  I doubt a biological pandemic would do that but it might get 70% of the people.

My worst fear from a practical standpoint is continent wide EMP attack.  It allows somebody else to move in and take over.

[Tallpine]

Worst case scenario would be the possilbe extinction of the human race.

I have this gut-wrenching vision of Obama as "President Tom Beck":

There will be no hoarding.  You will pay your bills. You will go to work.  You will pay your taxes.

 

[grislyatoms]

Biologic weapons scare me the most. Heck, I am not sure GMO's are foolproof, either. Sometimes our technical ability outstrips our wisdom...

What's the line from the chaos scientist in Jurassic Park? Something like "You were so preoccupied with whether you could you didn't consider whether you should..."

Not going to lose any sleep over disaster scenarios, though.

[MicroBalrog]

Biologic weapons scare me the most. Heck, I am not sure GMO's are foolproof, either. Sometimes our technical ability outstrips our wisdom...

Norman Borlaug.

[grislyatoms]

Norman Borlaug.

Looked up a couple articles on him as I didn't know what he had done. Will read more carefully later. (Thanks, BTW.)

I am not advocating pulling the plug on GMO's, far from it.

I just hope due caution/consideration are being used.

Sometimes, we get the safeguards right. Such as those couple of B-52 bombers (Iceland, or was it Greenland? and Spain) that crashed with H-bombs. The conventional explosives kicked, but the fission triggers did not.

Hope we always get it right.

 

[Balog]

GMO's?

[grislyatoms]

GMO's?

Genetically Modified Organisms

[Don't care]

Remember the "secret" hotel bunker in White Sulpher Springs, W. VA? Where government officials were to haven in the event of a NBC outbreak?

I'm sure that the President and Congress have replaced it with someplace a bit more discreet in location now.

[crawdaddyjim]

Biological, especially germ warfare since it can go pandemic. Also agriculture diseases that can spread.

Rest of them. I live in Iowa not to worried about being directly affected by them, we have less than 3 million people statewide, be a poor choice for a terrorist target.

Actually a large grain producer state that had a complete crop failure would likely kill more people from starvation than a N or C attack. The deaths would be spread over a very large area and as such would not be noticeable to the average person. Example: We lose about 50k people per year to the flu and pneumonia. But the losses are spread over the CONUS and as such average joe has almost no exposure to someone who died from it.

An EMP attack would concern me greatly as it would have a cascading effect on our society. But the doom and damnation folks generally blow it all out of proportion.
Jim