Life After Teh Oil Crash

[Gohron]

I gotta say I agree with Gozen on this one, I've been studying up more on it and the indicators are pretty clear. Oil is going to run out, and we may already have hit the "shit" stage of it, so basically things could start getting bad in the near future. True, man does always adapt but generally it takes something bad to start before he does, it's not like the entire human race is going to disappear from the face of the Earth because we have no oil. A few times in the past society has hit a high point, slowly started on it's way down then suddenly plumetted rapidly and harshly. History usually repeats itself, is another Dark Age too hard to accept?

[jonas]

No TNL or Internet?

That's obsurd.

[Error]

Nuclear power isn't quite the dinosaur it was 3 years ago. Some British scientists have apparently, and I say apparently because it has to be proven by like, 500 more scientists before its accepted, found a way to reduce the halflife of spent nuclear fuel by a considerable margin by focussing some type of laser on it.

http://www.rexresearch.com/articles/nukewa~1.htm

Ok theres the link and it looks like the process takes alot of power also. But there are other methods listed there, so people ARE coming up with ways to do it. It's just a matter of time before they get it cheaper and easier.

[station82o]

also there's this

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...m3_000630.html

[Curtis]

also there's this

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...m3_000630.html

TOLDYA

Damn.

Edit: Completely speculatory, but other things make this seem like it might be under consideration. It kinda clicks with Bush announcing the possibility of a base there, and even to check out what be da deal wit Mars, right around the time the shit's predicted to hit the fan.

I hate the guy, I really do, but if this is actually eminant, and it's a factor in his goal to push NASA a little harder, then that's awesome.

Some big ifs though.

[Rumpy]

I just want hover cars by the time I die. That's all I ask of science.

[Mzo]

History usually repeats itself, is another Dark Age too hard to accept?

Anything that inconveniences me is hard to accept.

[negitoro]

Helium 3 would be great... if it weren't for the fact we haven't even come close to developing a fusion reactor.

[The_Meach]

A few times in the past society has hit a high point, slowly started on it's way down then suddenly plumetted rapidly and harshly. History usually repeats itself, is another Dark Age too hard to accept?

I need some examples from history where society has 'hit a high point, slowly started on it's way down then suddenly plumetted rapidly and harshly.'

You've brought up the Middle Ages but this is a poor analogy (in this context) b/c the fall of Rome came about NOT from any lack of a resource but from Rome's social/military decay and the geo-political situation of the day (another Dark Age could come but I don't think it would be caused by a lack of oil).

[Matt]

I need some examples from history where society has 'hit a high point, slowly started on it's way down then suddenly plumetted rapidly and harshly.'

It's been theorized that the Maya civilization crashed because they overexploited their agricultural resources. People could be wrong, however.

Modern civilization could easily crash due to reasons unrelated to oil.