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Blazin · 08-05-2003, 05:19 PM

I dont know how many other people think about this, but why is it that not many people are freaked out about the fact that there are people with the technology to silently destroy a city with the accuracy of a pinpoint from the other side of the world, the technology to see anyone from a thing floating around in space, or the technology to just about ruin someones life with the use of a computer?
am i overreacting? because at this rate, who knows what may come next.

grumpyolddude · 08-05-2003, 06:04 PM

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Blazin · 08-05-2003, 06:24 PM

i like this kinda stuff, what can i say?

Jasmar · 08-05-2003, 07:45 PM

people dont really fear it because they assume it isn't going to affect them and people dont fear the ability to destroy a city so far away be causes theres nothing you can do about it

GakFace · 08-05-2003, 08:47 PM

I'd fear it, but it would merely be a waste of my time. I KNOW that I do not have the power to stop them, thus to worry about it would only make me horribly horribly depressed and paranoid. Tis not good for my health.

Looften · 08-05-2003, 08:57 PM

The Cold War got us plenty used to that kind of worry. Nothing is able to ease the nerves like a couple decades.

xxmsaxx · 08-05-2003, 09:10 PM

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Originally posted by Looften
The Cold War got us plenty used to that kind of worry. Nothing is able to ease the nerves like a couple decades.

so very true, but a few towers falling has kinda gotten everyone on edge and convinced the US to use that same city destroying power on people who do not have that power in fear that they might get that power.....did that make sense

Blazin · 08-06-2003, 06:33 AM

Well even though it would be difficult for those other countries to get the technology that we are using, they still may get it eventually.

MSD · 08-06-2003, 07:23 AM

It hasn't happened yet, and when it does, there isn't much that can be done to stop it.

I suggest that you focus your wories worry on something that you can change, like corrupt politicians, they're everywehre these days. Without them, the world-destroying is less likelly.

BentNotTwisted · 08-06-2003, 02:12 PM

I could also worry about the world being hit by a huge asteroid ala Armageddon or West Nile virus or SARS or... but it wouldn't do any good. I just worry about the things that affect me directly and that I have some minor degreee of conrol over. Like teaching my daughter her ABCs.

08-05-2003, 05:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
Blazin Upright	a strange fear I dont know how many other people think about this, but why is it that not many people are freaked out about the fact that there are people with the technology to silently destroy a city with the accuracy of a pinpoint from the other side of the world, the technology to see anyone from a thing floating around in space, or the technology to just about ruin someones life with the use of a computer? am i overreacting? because at this rate, who knows what may come next.

08-05-2003, 06:04 PM	#2 (permalink)
grumpyolddude Deliberately unfocused Location: Amazon.com and CDBaby	Found a home here, haven't you? I understand that this forum is monitored closely by ..... __________________ "Regret can be a harder pill to swallow than failure .With failure you at least know you gave it a chance..." David Howard

08-05-2003, 06:24 PM	#3 (permalink)
Blazin Upright	i like this kinda stuff, what can i say? __________________ Curiosity didnt kill the cat, curiosity made the kittens.

08-05-2003, 08:47 PM	#5 (permalink)
GakFace Go Ninja, Go Ninja Go!! Location: IN, USA	I'd fear it, but it would merely be a waste of my time. I KNOW that I do not have the power to stop them, thus to worry about it would only make me horribly horribly depressed and paranoid. Tis not good for my health. __________________ RoboBlaster: Welcome to the club! Not that I'm in the club. And there really isn'a a club in the first place. But if there was a club and if I was in it, I would definitely welcome you to it.

08-06-2003, 06:33 AM	#8 (permalink)
Blazin Upright	Well even though it would be difficult for those other countries to get the technology that we are using, they still may get it eventually. __________________ Curiosity didnt kill the cat, curiosity made the kittens.

08-05-2003, 07:45 PM	#4 (permalink)
Jasmar Crazy	people dont really fear it because they assume it isn't going to affect them and people dont fear the ability to destroy a city so far away be causes theres nothing you can do about it

08-05-2003, 08:57 PM	#6 (permalink)
Looften Crazy	The Cold War got us plenty used to that kind of worry. Nothing is able to ease the nerves like a couple decades.

08-06-2003, 07:23 AM	#9 (permalink)
MSD The sky calls to us ... Super Moderator Location: CT	It hasn't happened yet, and when it does, there isn't much that can be done to stop it. I suggest that you focus your wories worry on something that you can change, like corrupt politicians, they're everywehre these days. Without them, the world-destroying is less likelly.

08-06-2003, 02:12 PM	#10 (permalink)
BentNotTwisted Optimistic Skeptic Location: Midway between a Beehive and Centennial	I could also worry about the world being hit by a huge asteroid ala Armageddon or West Nile virus or SARS or... but it wouldn't do any good. I just worry about the things that affect me directly and that I have some minor degreee of conrol over. Like teaching my daughter her ABCs. __________________ IS THAT IT ???!!! Do you even know what 'it' is? When the last man dies for just words that he said... We Shall Be Free