The fear of the day.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Humm, what would you use to take out a star?

I'd start with reservations at Spago...

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Humm, what would you use to take out a star?

Off the top of my head the Zinder nullifier is the only science fiction weapon I can think of that would do the job. Well that and Obie of course.....

Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth novels eventually see the development of "quantumbuster" weapons that can take out stars. The novels are all way too long but have good implementations of the Singularity (thus a millennia spanning epic that can have some continuous characters), wormhole travel, an actual alien intelligence and a Dyson sphere.

[RStar]

I saw the movie "Contagon" and was pleasantly surprised. Not because it was a good movie, but because it was interestingly true to what it would be like to deal with a global pandemic, without the horiffic fear factor, total extinction of man kind, or brain eating zombies.

[JWBear]

No brain eating zombies?! That sucks.

[Moonliner]

It's a new year, sure to be filled to the brim with new fears!

Today we have:

Deadly Headphones.

The headlines scream:

Injuries while walking with headphones tripled, study finds

Originally Posted by Mainstream Media Fear Mongers

The number of serious injuries and deaths occurring to pedestrians who were walking with headphones has tripled in seven years in the United States, according to a report published in Injury Prevention.

Funny thing, you have to read deep into the article to find this little gem:

Originally Posted by Hidden Truth

The authors wrote: “Since this is a retrospective case series, neither causation nor correlation can be established between headphone use and pedestrian risk.”

[Moonliner]

Happy Halloween!

I'll bet you can guess the "Fear of the day". Yup. Poisoned candy being given out to kids. I heard a warning about this grave issue on the radio this morning.

Here is a great article debunking this fear.

Originally Posted by News

It’s more likely that your Halloween candy will be poisoned or otherwise tampered with by one of your parents or family members, than a stranger. Think about that while your mom is “checking out” your candy before letting you eat it.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

It is getting challenging. We had to special order our Minivan (yes, I drive a minivan) to get one without a DVD player in the back. We also do not allow ipods and other electronic gear to be used in the car. Short drives, cross country drives it makes no difference. Personally I think it's important driver training to get the kids used to paying attention to what's around them while riding in a car.

Looking back at this post now that I have two young adults who have been driving for a number of years. Yeah, I'm a friking genius.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

At the start of the Presidential election cycle, I think it's time to resurrect this thread.

I had two options for "Fear of the day"

1. Tanker stolen with over 3,000 gallons of fuel stolen

or

2. Cybercom commander: Major cyber attack coming...

And the winner is:

Spoiler:

#2 Computer attacks emerge as the threat of the future.

The General says future attacks could cause damage in the real world by attacking physical resources like industrial machines. Really? How could he know that? Oh yeah, because we (or perhaps the Israelis) laid out a road map on how to do it.

As for #1 - I can't find the article at the moment, but there was a great one about all these "terror" related activities written by a long time investigator. In short he said people are always unscrewing bolts on power towers, stealing truck loads of hazardous stuff and generally doing other weird stuff often for no real reason (but mostly for the cash)

Well well look at this. Back in 2011 I selected "Cyber Attacks" in a presidential election as the fear of the day.

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Well well look at this. Back in 2011 I selected "Cyber Attacks" in a presidential election as the fear of the day.

Cue Twilight Zone theme.

[€uroMeinke]

Tonight it was a desert goose-hawk