Saturday, April 16, 2005

The Guardian polled 10 scientists for "possible reasons that humanity would be wiped out in the next 70 years". Of the ten suggestions, not all are plausible. However nearly all have been made into one or more Hollywood movies:
1. Climate Change: The Day After Tomorrow
3. Viral Pandemic: Outbreak
4. Terrorism: Broken Arrow, The Peacemaker
5. Nuclear War: Dr Strangelove, Wargames
6. Meteorite Impact: Armageddon, Deep Impact
7. Robots Take Over: Matrix, I Robot
9. Super-volcano: Inferno, Dante's Peak
Only three on the list haven't been adapted for the screen.
2. Telomere Erosion (Sudden genetic collapse of Homo Sapiens)
8. Cosmic Ray Burst
10. Earth Swallowed By Black Hole
Telomere erosion isn't ever going to make for an exciting film, since it happens over generations, and occurs at a subcellular level. Cosmic ray burst is also kinda dull, since everyone would just get, thyroid cancer, lymphoma, and a good tan. "Earth swallowed by black hole" would be an awesome film though.
"Around seven years ago, when the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider was being built at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, there was a worry that a state of dense matter could be formed that had never been created before."
If I was writing the screenplay, I'd have three nerds at MIT "accidentally" make a black hole in the lab. The whole earth would be sucked into the blackhole, and be transported into another dimension where nerds are actually cool. I'm sure that's the kind of project any studio would greenlight.

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