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>>14458635
Is a plague the most plausible doomsday scenario?

>>14458671

Our boy Seneca thinks some great flood will do us in.

>>14458671
I don't think so personally. I think an asteroid or large solar event is the most plausible doomsday scenario. Plagues might be able to ravage a continent again but not planet killer total depopulation. Even the black plague, arguably the worst plague is known history only managed to wipe out 1/3 of Europe.

There is some thought that the last great solar event nearly wiped out humanity some 12000 years ago causing lightning storms in different places all over the world that struck the ground at the same pace as normal rainfall; leaving only people who could get to safety.

The native american Hopi tribe still has stories about the event, they sought refuge underground like the initial inhabitants of the underground city of Derinkuyu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_underground_city

This is also the foundation myth for the Zoroastrian religion.

>>14458635
I read it last year. It's beautiful.

>>14459022
>There is some thought that the last great solar event nearly wiped out humanity some 12000 years ago causing lightning storms in different places all over the world that struck the ground at the same pace as normal rainfall; leaving only people who could get to safety.
Where can I read about this?

>mother was mary wollstonecraft
>father was william godwin
>husband was percy bryce shelley
what a family

>>14459257

Good blood..

>>14458635
I want to consentually rape Mary Shelley, and that's no euphemism. So long as it's a pseudonym for Elle fanning

>>14458635
Bump because Mary Shelley was hot

>>14458671
I don't think that's plausible anymore. Modern medicine is too advanced now so even the highest threats can at least be contained if not cured.

I recommend these biographies to those who want to consensually rape her.

>>14459022
What is this solar event you're talking about? I'd like to know the name so I can look it up, sounds interesting

>>14460944
The medical top dogs aren't as optimistic about the capabilities of modern medicine as you are anon. Although I agree that it's very unlikely any plague will cause human extinction, but that's not really contingent on the state of medicine as much as the general nature of diseases and human populations.

>>14460984
Fuck shit nigger fuck I didn't attach the picture.

How come we never talk about Shelley's father Godwin?

do you think Shelley and Byron double-teamed her?

>>14459237
>>14461128

Thomas Gold came up with the initial hypothesis in the 60s after studying the possibility of coronal mass ejections. He found that when they were large enough they would cause lightning over large swaths of land.

Just 'recently' in 1859 there was one that destroyed electrical transformers and equipment all over the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859

The one that Thomas Gold theorized would be many orders of magnitude larger (like a once in a hundred year storm, except it's a once in a like 100000 year solar storm).

These two contain a good amount of information on coronal mass ejections, but for some reason Thomas Gold's Wikipedia page says nothing about his research.
https://b-ok.cc/book/1124244/63f7cb
https://b-ok.cc/book/2146667/a5143c

>>14461668

Wait till you hear what she and Claire Clairmont got up to.