The future is wild

[Krieg]

.../snip/...we're like overdue for an ice age aren't we? .../snip/...

Not quite overdue, but if the previous warm cycles were in fact around 10K years long, then this one should be winding down.

Of course going by the average time in between major events it's also about time for a "dinosaur killer" sized meteorite strike, a Toba sized "super" volcano eruption AND an earthquake topping 10+ on the Richter scale.

Fun no?

 

[Crothian]

excellent....the heat from the collision and the volcano will make the ice age be okay!!!

I know that's completely wrong

 

[Tonguez]

might make some odd encounters for a D&D or sci fi game though...

Those little flying fish are what I now use to portray Stirges - still giant mozzies but not really.

My Destrecans are based on Dixons concept of the flightless giant hunting bat

and Squibbons must mean Mindflayers are from Earth!

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Of course going by the average time in between major events it's also about time for a "dinosaur killer" sized meteorite strike, a Toba sized "super" volcano eruption AND an earthquake topping 10+ on the Richter scale.

Fun no?

I need to make a movie of this. I've seen movies that had any one of those, but a movie with all three at once? Now that would make boffo box office!

I'm thinking Tommy Lee Jones as a heroic L.A. seismologist whose son is a NASA astronaut (can we get Affleck?) and has a nubile young girlfriend who lives at the summit of Mt. Pinatubo. We get Brando to play the meteor and Roland Emmerich to direct (just tell him those 6 magic words: "You get to destroy New York").

Ragnarok - In summer 2005, Earth will give us the Finger!

 

[Crothian]

LOL, that's funny

 

[Heretic Apostate]

Are "After Man" and "The New Dinosaurs" available anywhere?

I may have "After Man," but I'd really like to find "The New Dinosaurs."

Guess it's off to the library.

 

[demiurge1138]

Of Dougal Dixon's future trilogy, only After Man is still in print. It's in paperback, and you should be able to find it after only a little bookstore hunting. The New Dinosaurs is decently rare; the only library I've ever found it in was an elementary school library that had no idea what they had on their hands (and deeply inspired my little seven-year-old mind). The third book, Man After Man, is really good, but I've only ever seen one copy, and it's the one I own.

Demiurge out.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

I have "After Man." I've placed a hold on "New Dinosaurs." What is "Man After Man" about?

 

[demiurge1138]

It's about, well, man after Homo sapiens. It's less of a natural history and more a collection of short stories than the first two, but the art and attention to detail are still top-notch Dixon.

The "plot" is that, after the rich and poor are so exaggerated as to become new subspecies (the rich first mechanically augment themselves, then use genetic engineering to build designer bodies), a small group of humans leaves the decimated planet in order to find brave new worlds. Scientists, knowing that humanity as we know it is doomed, genetically engineer proto-humans to re-evolve and maybe not screw everything up this time. The bulk of the book is about the animalian life that humanity becomes.

It's really really wierd, but also really really good.

Demiurge out.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

Okay, I placed an order for Man After Man (book) and The Future is Wild (DVD--already had the book, as well as the book for After Man).

And I've got the New Dinosaurs on hold at the library.

So I'm good to go.

Have you read "Man & The Planets," a book about utilizing the resources of the solar system?