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The Younger Dryas was the last ice age caused by a mile-wide iron meteorite containing iridium that hit the Hiawatha glacier leaving a 19-mile wide crater in northern Greenland. An iridium rich layer was spread over vast areas of the Earth that is now found in soil layers that links the date of this event to around only 12,900 years ago. The Younger Dryas period is so named after the alpine-tundra wildflower Dryas octopetala that first began to grow as conditions warmed up and its pollen can be detected in more recent soil layers.
Caveman Ug: When did that mile-deep ice sheet suddenly appear? It wasn’t there last month.
Caveman Ah: It was nice and warm until that bright fiery dragon flew across the sky and now it is cold enough to freeze a mammoth.
Caveman Ug: Put that fire out!
Caveman Ah: Why?
Caveman Ug: Because it will eventually lead to our extinction.
Naughty boy: Every 10 years for the last 50 years we have been taught that we have only 10 years to save the planet. Do we only have another 10 years? I looked at the global warming graph and it showed a steady warming of 0.4 degrees every 100 years during an interglacial period until Al stuck a hockey stick on the end. Then I looked further back in history at the last ice age and discovered the Younger Dryas. Now that is what I call climate change.
Teacher: Did you say younger dry ass? Now bend over…
Caveman Ah: It was nice and warm until that bright fiery dragon flew across the sky and now it is cold enough to freeze a mammoth.
Caveman Ug: Put that fire out!
Caveman Ah: Why?
Caveman Ug: Because it will eventually lead to our extinction.
Naughty boy: Every 10 years for the last 50 years we have been taught that we have only 10 years to save the planet. Do we only have another 10 years? I looked at the global warming graph and it showed a steady warming of 0.4 degrees every 100 years during an interglacial period until Al stuck a hockey stick on the end. Then I looked further back in history at the last ice age and discovered the Younger Dryas. Now that is what I call climate change.
Teacher: Did you say younger dry ass? Now bend over…
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The controlavirus inserted itself into reality. The controlavirus made copies of itself. The controlavirus mutated. The controlcvirus copied fiction into the new normal.
1. Nineteen Eighty-Four. 2. Brave New World. 3. Mad Max. 4. Soylent Green. 5. The Hunger Games. 6. A Clockwork Orange. 7. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 8. Infinite Jest. 9. V for Vendetta. 10. The Stand. 11. Animal Farm. 12 Monkeys. 13. Fahrenheit 451. 14. The Twilight Zone. 15. Black Mirror. 16. They Live. 17. The Handmaid’s Tale. 18. The Giver. 19. The Road. 20. Divergent. 21. Harrison Bergeron. 22. Station Eleven. 23. The Ministry of Truth. 24. The Trial. 25. The Time Machine. 26. The End We Start From. 27. The Power. 28. The Departure. 29. Logan’s Run. 30. The Matrix. 31. Gattaca. 32. The Running Man. 33. Metropolis. 34. Brazil. 35. Robocop. 36. Minority Report. 37. Total Recall. 38. Escape from New York. 39. Death Race 2020. 40. The Omega Man. 41. I, Robot. 42. Village of the Damned Borises. 43. Code. 46. 44. Strange Days. 45. Battle Royale. 46. We. 47. Uglies. 48. Parable of the Sower. 49. The City of Ember. 50. Anthem.
1. Nineteen Eighty-Four. 2. Brave New World. 3. Mad Max. 4. Soylent Green. 5. The Hunger Games. 6. A Clockwork Orange. 7. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 8. Infinite Jest. 9. V for Vendetta. 10. The Stand. 11. Animal Farm. 12 Monkeys. 13. Fahrenheit 451. 14. The Twilight Zone. 15. Black Mirror. 16. They Live. 17. The Handmaid’s Tale. 18. The Giver. 19. The Road. 20. Divergent. 21. Harrison Bergeron. 22. Station Eleven. 23. The Ministry of Truth. 24. The Trial. 25. The Time Machine. 26. The End We Start From. 27. The Power. 28. The Departure. 29. Logan’s Run. 30. The Matrix. 31. Gattaca. 32. The Running Man. 33. Metropolis. 34. Brazil. 35. Robocop. 36. Minority Report. 37. Total Recall. 38. Escape from New York. 39. Death Race 2020. 40. The Omega Man. 41. I, Robot. 42. Village of the Damned Borises. 43. Code. 46. 44. Strange Days. 45. Battle Royale. 46. We. 47. Uglies. 48. Parable of the Sower. 49. The City of Ember. 50. Anthem.
51. Never Let Me Go. 52. Lord of the Flies. 53. Delirium. 54. Neuromancer. 55. Donnie Darko. 56. The Machine Stops. 57. Atlas Shrugged. 58. The Children of Men. 59. The Lobster. 60. The Wall. 61. The Last Man. 62. Erewhon. 63. It Can’t Happen Here. 64. Tales of the Dying Earth. 65. Limbo. 66. A Canticle for Leibowitz. 67. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. 68. Stand on Zanzibar. 69. The Lorax. 70. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. 71. Motorman. 72. Roadside Picnic. 73. The Girl Who Was Plugged In. 74. Dhalgren. 75. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang. 76. Riddley Walker. 77. The Postman. 78. Contagious. 79. Journals of the Plague Years. 80. Skreemer. 81. The Child Garden. 82. Snow Crash. 83. The Yellow Arrow. 84. Slow River. 85. The Unit. 86. Rina. 87. California. 88. Find Me. 89. Everything Belongs to the Future. 90. Idiocracy. 91. The Zero Theorem. 92. The Truman Show. 93. Safe. 94. Southland Tales. 95. Feed. 96. Watchmen. 97. The Terminator. 98. Controlcvirus. 99. The New Normal.
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Reading, it’s not illegal yet.
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1. The community taking over all the arms of government is always numerically tiny.
2. The creation of a nationwide campaign of fear or terror.
3. When people are badly frightened, they are extremely gullible. They will believe whatever they are told. Figures are cooked, statistics cobbled, research stultified, to endorse the death-is-everywhere message.
4. The assurance from the tiny group that they and only they can save us from a horrible fate, but only if we all abide by and obey a tidal wave of rules and regulations - no matter if these destroy the nation we once knew and loved. Fear, deliberately inspired fear, rules supreme.
There will always be dissenters, who must be dealt with.
5. Creation of a sort of secret police to spy, pounce and punish.
1. The community taking over all the arms of government is always numerically tiny.
2. The creation of a nationwide campaign of fear or terror.
3. When people are badly frightened, they are extremely gullible. They will believe whatever they are told. Figures are cooked, statistics cobbled, research stultified, to endorse the death-is-everywhere message.
4. The assurance from the tiny group that they and only they can save us from a horrible fate, but only if we all abide by and obey a tidal wave of rules and regulations - no matter if these destroy the nation we once knew and loved. Fear, deliberately inspired fear, rules supreme.
There will always be dissenters, who must be dealt with.
5. Creation of a sort of secret police to spy, pounce and punish.
“Broism, not Borism!”
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1. Nineteen Eighty-Four. 2. Brave New World. 3. Mad Max. 4. Soylent Green. 5. The Hunger Games. 6. A Clockwork Orange. 7. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 8. Infinite Jest. 9. V for Vendetta. 10. The Stand. 11. Animal Farm. 12 Monkeys. 13. Fahrenheit 451.
1. Nineteen Eighty-Four. 2. Brave New World. 3. Mad Max. 4. Soylent Green. 5. The Hunger Games. 6. A Clockwork Orange. 7. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 8. Infinite Jest. 9. V for Vendetta. 10. The Stand. 11. Animal Farm. 12 Monkeys. 13. Fahrenheit 451.
Before the controlavirus, the average citizen unwittingly committed 3 felonies a day, now they commit so many they've put themselves under house arrest.
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