Doomsday

I was watching Super Comet: After the impact on discovery channel yesterday as i was truly wowed by the show. I love the way of how they present what would happen to earth if an asteriod were to strike earth. The way these facts are presented are simple and clear and it makes things much easier to understand to non-scientists like us. What was interesting enough was not just telling us all the facts, but they created a storyline behind all these facts. How would the different groups of people react to this catastrophe and what are the difficulties they faced in order to continue surviving. Though the ending was cheesy (the dad n girl meeting back with mum who was separated), the whole show still managed to keep me glued to the tv for 2 hours. It has been shown on discovery channel before but this is the first time i watched the whole episode. I do not know how scientifically true the show is, but the level of distruction to earth and the human race is really huge. Those surviving after the impact will experience extremes of temperature, shortage of food and water. If any were to really survive, it would really be amazing.

This show has sort of aroused my interest in 'Doomsday" and i was surfing around the net. There are actually a few asteriod that came very close to earth. Many religions in the world have prophacies on Judgement day, where human will be wiped out and disappear from the surface of the earth. I have not had time to plough through these different perspective. Doomsday may not necessarily be in the form of asteriod impact, but may be caused by other factors such as spread of diseases, natural catastrophe and many others. there is even a doomsday clock, measuring the degree of nuclear, environmental, and technological threats to human beings. currently, it stands at 5 minutes before midnight.

I doubt i would live to see doomsday, but it would be interesting to just think about what happen if tomorrow is your last day on earth?

Ok. back to mugging.