Wednesday, June 6, 2007

21st century Damocles

I reckon that the punchline in my previous post was perhaps too subtle.
To amend that: the interesting point is not that so many momentous things are just waiting to happen, but that their cycles overlap so well as to yield, maybe, a compound blow. So this is not just the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads as we obliviously enjoy our contemporary banquet, but a whole modern arsenal (including a handful of M1 Abrams, a couple of siege mortars and an ICBM - pointing our way).
To illustrate: all of the movies listed address the issues one by one. Well, a possible concept for a sequel common to all of them is to first have a mega-earthquake happen, foretelling a supervolcano eruption, and while the whole world is in a frenzy trying to cope with the situation you can add a pinch of solar storminess (not before you dim the magnetic fields a bit more) to fry satellites and mess up communications. And as the cherry on the pie - the flare so happens to knock out the navigation in some test missile that lands in the wrong place. You must admit this would be a real jumbo gumbo. Any directors rising to the challenge can contact me for screenplay. We could call it: "The Hitchhiker's guide to New Earth" or "Safe at Home".

Jokes aside - without fantasizing, it's just good to remain informed. So just read the news more and the blogs less...

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