Catastrophic events

[Fatality911]

I've seen quite a few "what if" threads on here and decided to come up with this one.

If you could go back in time and stop any single catasrophic event, what would it be? Remember it can only be one! And you have to add how you would have stopped it from happening.

[Mikmania]

stop Haste the Day from calling it quits. I would have done this by becoming there manager.

[Craig_M]

I dont know... i wouldnt stop any world wars, that would effect the future (well, present) to much.

 

Maybe 9/11?

[Mikmania]

I would have stopped Harry Potter epidemic from England. In order to prevent this I would go back in time and write the books here in America then it would be an epidemic from USA!

[Fatality911]

I dont know... i wouldnt stop any world wars' date=' that would effect the future (well, present) to much.

 

Maybe 9/11?[/quote']

 

How?

[bonesbonesbones]

I would have stopped Lisa Left Eye from getting on that place cuz TLC used to be the ****.

[Mikmania]

I would have stopped Lisa Left Eye from getting on that place cuz TLC used to be the ****.

 

umm... do you have a pen15?

[Craig_M]

How?

 

You never know... Maybe one of those jews Hitler killed would have done something evil. If not him one of the kids he would have had, or one of his many decendents if he had his kids before he died.

Or one of the soldiers.

 

Maybe Germany would have attacked later on when they were more powerfull, and won the war

[Mikmania]

would have stopped Adam & Eve from eating that Apple.

[bonesbonesbones]

umm... do you have a pen15?

 

Yes, but I couldnt help it, I understood their music. I mean, I dont want no scrub, a scrub is a guy that cant get no love from me, hanging on the passenger side of his best friends ride tryin to holla at me.

[Craig_M]

I might have saved JFK

[uaquin]

I would have made sure the Vienna Academy of the Arts accepted a mediocre aspiring artist. Failing that, well lets just say a timely death would be arranged.

[Mikmania]

I'd stop any rapist of a young child. I would do this by causing him to wreck off of a cliff

[Fatality911]

Stalin was right.

 

"The death of one is a tragedy, the death of a million is just a statistic"

[KRYME]

I don't know if I would "stop it", but I would like to see what happened to the Mayans.

[bonesbonesbones]

To be serious for a second. I would stop the massacring of the world shark population that is occurring right now. At this pace the sharks will be gone soon and the ocean ecosystem will collapse and we will go to war.

[Fatality911]

To be serious for a second. I would stop the massacring of the world shark population that is occurring right now. At this pace the sharks will be gone soon and the ocean ecosystem will collapse and we will go to war.

 

What about tigers?

 

Their planned extinction date is well before that of the shark.

[Mikmania]

I don't know if I would "stop it"' date=' but I would like to see what happened to the Mayans.[/quote']

 

I can tell you what happened to them. So their calendar which is chiseled in rock got very tiresome and everyone died from exhaustion trying to further the calendar. The last one died when he reached dec 21 2010 on the calendar. They liked to work ahead but in this case it was the death of them.

[bonesbonesbones]

What about tigers?

 

Their planned extinction date is well before that of the shark.

 

Tigers are not as important to survival of the world as sharks. Sharks have been the top off the food chain in the ocean almost as long as the world has been around without changing through natural selection. If the sharks are gone the ocean fish supply will become abundant and if you go all the way down the food chain all the little phytoplankton that produce much of the worlds oxygen will be gone.

[KRYME]

What about tigers?

 

Their planned extinction date is well before that of the shark.

 

yes. save the tigers.

[Fatality911]

Tigers are not as important to survival of the world as sharks. Sharks have been the top off the food chain in the ocean almost as long as the world has been around without changing through natural selection. If the sharks are gone the ocean fish supply will become abundant and if you go all the way down the food chain all the little phytoplankton that produce much of the worlds oxygen will be gone.

 

Sharks are at the top of their food chain in the ocean, but if history has taught us anything isn't it the fact that when one head gets cut off another takes it's place?

 

Point being. I believe the tiger is in graver danger right now than the shark and numerous other animals are in more danger than the tiger. We should be more worried about the animals dangerously close to extinction first IMO.

[joshdfs]

I would go to the framing of the constitution of the United States and convince the founding fathers to include constitutional protection and civil sovereignty for the first nations and show them the folly of the 3/5ths compromise and end slavery then.

[Fatality911]

I would go to the framing of the constitution of the United States and convince the founding fathers to include constitutional protection and civil sovereignty for the first nations and show them the folly of the 3/5ths compromise and end slavery then.

 

I think you are the first one to not just think of a single person.

 

Well Done.

[uaquin]

I think you are the first one to not just think of a single person.

 

Well Done.

 

Well to be fair, I was thinking of 6 million Jews, Gypsies,Homosexuals and other minority groups that were rounded up and exterminated.

 

WWII may still have occured at some point, but without Hitler and his crew the death camps wouldn't have.

[Fatality911]

Well to be fair' date=' I was thinking of 6 million Jews, Gypsies,Homosexuals and other minority groups that were rounded up and exterminated.

 

WWII may still have occured at some point, but without Hitler and his crew the death camps wouldn't have.[/quote']

 

My apologies, I missed your post.

 

And normally I would have an argument that Nazi Germany may have still exsisted without Hitler. But to be honest the man was probably the best public speaker the world has ever seen. I don't think anyone else could have rallied people around that much hate except for him.

[uaquin]

My apologies' date=' I missed your post.

 

And normally I would have an argument that Nazi Germany may have still exsisted without Hitler. But to be honest the man was probably the best public speaker the world has ever seen. I don't think anyone else could have rallied people around that much hate except for him.[/quote']

 

I think WWII was bound to happen. Germany was just way to oppressed and desperate after WWI. I just think without HItler and his persuasive public speaking the Nazi party would not have been in control when it did.

[Fatality911]

I think WWII was bound to happen. Germany was just way to oppressed and desperate after WWI. I just think without HItler and his persuasive public speaking the Nazi party would not have been in control when it did.

 

Very possible.

[KungFuMaster]

I would prevent the evolution of primates to become early humans. To prevent this, I would hop on my time machine which Dcent and I have built and travel back in time to pre-human existence.

 

Once there, I would disguise myself as another primate and poison each and every pre-human primates.

 

Why would I do such a thing?

 

Because I would be saving the earth.

[Riot_Act101]

I would prevent the evolution of primates to become early humans. To prevent this' date=' I would hop on my time machine which Dcent and I have built and travel back in time to pre-human existence.

 

Once there, I would disguise myself as another primate and poison each and every pre-human primates.

 

Why would I do such a thing?

 

Because I would be saving the earth.[/quote']

 

is it evil to kill a future species from evolving, to save the world frm the damage that species would cause?

[KRYME]

I would prevent the evolution of primates to become early humans. To prevent this' date=' I would hop on my time machine which Dcent and I have built and travel back in time to pre-human existence.

 

Once there, I would disguise myself as another primate and poison each and every pre-human primates.

 

Why would I do such a thing?

 

Because I would be saving the earth.[/quote']

 

You wouldn't have to poison them. You could just simply keep them from eating mushrooms.

[pistolfli]

I would prevent the evolution of primates to become early humans. To prevent this' date=' I would hop on my time machine which Dcent and I have built and travel back in time to pre-human existence.

 

Once there, I would disguise myself as another primate and poison each and every pre-human primates.

 

Why would I do such a thing?

 

Because I would be saving the earth.[/quote']

 

But then you would be causing a paradox as you would never of existed to go back in time to poison them :confused:

[KungFuMaster]

is it evil to kill a future species from evolving' date=' to save the world frm the damage that species would cause?[/quote']

Good question:

 

You have to weigh the pros and cons.

Pros for killing off a destructive species:

To save planet Earth.

 

Cons for killing off a destructive species:

I have to live with the decision the rest of my life.

 

 

I think I'll save the earth.

[KungFuMaster]

But then you would be causing a paradox as you would never of existed to go back in time to poison them :confused:

Another good question:

 

Then I would have created a parallel dimension. In one dimension, human exists and ends up destroying the earth and in the other, planet earth is saved from the destruction of human kind.

 

Can you accept that?

[pistolfli]

Another good question:

 

Then I would have created a parallel dimension. In one dimension' date=' human exists and ends up destroying the earth and in the other, planet earth is saved from the destruction of human kind.

 

Can you accept that?[/quote']

 

Yes i can live with that.

 

I would of also accepted wibbly wobbly timey wimey (wonder how many of you will get that).

[ALEXMMA]

You wouldn't have to poison them. You could just simply keep them from eating mushrooms.

 

Ahh good idea. Terrence Mckenna Fan?

 

I suppose i would stop the Holocaust, I can just never get my head around why someone would want to exterminate 6 million people and how most of germany just accepted it.

[Shady_Champ]

Hurricane Katrina

 

The death of 2Pac

[KRYME]

Ahh good idea. Terrence Mckenna Fan?

 

I suppose i would stop the Holocaust' date=' I can just never get my head around why someone would want to exterminate 6 million people and how most of germany just accepted it.[/quote']

Big fan lol

[Fatality911]

Ahh good idea. Terrence Mckenna Fan?

 

I suppose i would stop the Holocaust' date=' I can just never get my head around why someone would want to exterminate 6 million people and how most of germany just accepted it.[/quote']

 

Because Hitler made Germany believe, and when you have the ability to make people believe, it's very powerful.

 

Just look at how big organized religion is.

[KungFuMaster]

Yes i can live with that.

 

I would of also accepted wibbly wobbly timey wimey (wonder how many of you will get that).

I didn't get it.

 

Care to clue us in?

[Riot_Act101]

barbara striesand.....*shudders* talk about catastrophe

[KRYME]

barbara striesand.....*shudders* talk about catastrophe

 

[bonesbonesbones]

Sharks are at the top of their food chain in the ocean' date=' but if history has taught us anything isn't it the fact that when one head gets cut off another takes it's place?

 

Point being. I believe the tiger is in graver danger right now than the shark and numerous other animals are in more danger than the tiger. We should be more worried about the animals dangerously close to extinction first IMO.[/quote']

 

No other animal can replicate the diet of the shark its not that simple.

[pistolfli]

I didn't get it.

 

Care to clue us in?

 

I will do tommorow i'll give others who might get it the chance as i am pretty sure i am not the only fan on here of the thing i am refrencing.

[HIMBOB]

I would give Franz Ferdinand's driver a proper street map.

 

 

 

Point being. I believe the tiger is in graver danger right now than the shark and numerous other animals are in more danger than the tiger. We should be more worried about the animals dangerously close to extinction first IMO.

 

While the loss of tigers would be a sad day I believe marine life to be much more influential simply because our ability to control what happens in the seas is so limited.

 

If the Oceans die we die, If Asia and Africa lose all their lions and tigers zoos will be less interesting but I don't think it threatens the survival of Earth for humans and mammals.

[Fatality911]

No other animal can replicate the diet of the shark its not that simple.

 

I would give Franz Ferdinand's driver a proper street map.

 

 

 

 

 

While the loss of tigers would be a sad day I believe marine life to be much more influential simply because our ability to control what happens in the seas is so comparitely limited.

 

If the Oceans die we die' date=' In Asia and Africa lose all their lions and tigers zoo will be less interesting but I don't think it threatens the survival of Earth for humans.[/quote']

 

My point with this was that laws are starting to rain down involving the illegal poaching of Sharks in numerous countries (The States, Australia etc.) and the problem that we are seeing now involving shark poaching for their fins may not even be a problem 5-10 years from now.

 

However, there are other animals on the endangered species list that are in far more grave danger right now than the shark, and the shark is taking presidence. I just don't think we should look at those other animals as expendable and only worry about a problem that may not even exsist down the road.

[bonesbonesbones]

My point with this was that laws are starting to rain down involving the illegal poaching of Sharks in numerous countries (The States' date=' Australia etc.) and the problem that we are seeing now involving shark poaching for their fins may not even be a problem 5-10 years from now.

 

However, there are other animals on the endangered species list that are in far more grave danger right now than the shark, and the shark is taking presidence. I just don't think we should look at those other animals as expendable and only worry about a problem that may not even exsist down the road.[/quote']

 

Shark finning in america and australia covers about 0.05 percent of the shark finning. It all occurs in Japan, China, and remote islands where there are no laws against shark finning. The problem of the ocean ecosystem collapsing once sharks are gone exists, and its already too late to fix what we have done. Shark populations are under ten percent what they were 100 years ago.

[Fatality911]

Shark finning in america and australia covers about 0.05 percent of the shark finning. It all occurs in Japan' date=' China, and remote islands where there are no laws against shark finning. The problem of the ocean ecosystem collapsing once sharks are gone exists, and its already too late to fix what we have done. Shark populations are under ten percent what they were 100 years ago.[/quote']

 

So we should put all the focus on the sharks then and just completly forget about other forms of wildlife which are important as well?

 

Im not trying to argue here or anything, but I disagree with the fact that we should put other animals that are closer to extinction on the back burner because people don't feel they are as important to the ecosystem as the shark.

[HIMBOB]

So we should put all the focus on the sharks then and just completly forget about other forms of wildlife which are important as well?

 

Im not trying to argue here or anything' date=' but I disagree with the fact that we should put other animals that are closer to extinction on the back burner because people don't feel they are as important to the ecosystem as the shark.[/quote']

 

If you mean on the back burner as in forget about it we got bigger problems I agree we need to stop all species loss as we don't the chain reactions from it which could be much bigger than a single species being lost.

 

However if sharks disappear we can clearly point to what the result will be and its bad real bad therefore saving sharks should be funded at a much greater rate than for saving tigers.

 

Also tiger numbers at their peak was only a fraction of shark number at their peak and the loss of the larger population will have larger effects.

[Fatality911]

If you mean on the back burner as in forget about it we got bigger problems I agree we need to stop all species loss as we don't the chain reactions from it which could be much bigger than a single species being lost.

 

However if sharks disappear we can clearly point to what the result will be and its bad real bad therefore saving sharks should be funded at a much greater rate than for saving tigers.

 

Also tiger numbers at their peak was only a fraction of shark number at their peak and the loss of the larger population will have larger effects.

 

Yeah, thats the point I was making.

 

Im not saying that the shark being poached for it's fins isn't a problem, im just saying it's not the only problem.

[bonesbonesbones]

Yeah' date=' thats the point I was making.

 

Im not saying that the shark being poached for it's fins isn't a problem, im just saying it's not the only problem.[/quote']

 

Its the biggest problem.