How will america Fall?

[North King]

In the next century, I think. Face it, there's too much facing us.

1. Oil Crash, by most experts due to come around in the next few decades. Sure, work on alternatives is being done, but I don't believe that it will be enough to completely stopper any economic disaster.

2. Yellowstone Supervolcano. Imagine the entire midwest, southwest, and Rockies states. Imagine all of those covered with ash. Enough said.

3. La Palma. Never heard of it? You should have. In a couple dozen years, this islands due to split in half, with one of its massive chunks falling into the sea and starting the mother of all tidal waves. Bye bye, East Coast.

4. Hydroxyl Collapse. OK, so I just ripped this off Exit Mundi. But there is good evidence to suggest that smog and soot from our factories will suddenly be a lot worse... See the site for details, since I'm very lazy today.

5. Global Warming. I know half of the people here don't believe it. But it's liable to come, and come pretty darn fast. And when it does, well, I won't be placing any bets on coastal real estate.

6. Ice Age. OK, a little more theoretical here, but the current trend of global warming happens to be an almost perfect jump start to an Ice Age, if things play out right.

7. Declining resources in general. At this point, we import most of our oil. That's rather minor. But stuff like metal ore, food, etc, that's just going to screw over the economy.

I could go on and on, but time is short and I believe I made my point.

 

[Che Guava]

@North king

Wouldn't most of those things affect the rest of the world too, not just america?

 

[Fifty]

Everyone always loves to predict a future "totalitarian dictatorship" hehe

 

[Winner]

@North king

Wouldn't most of those things affect the rest of the world too, not just america?

Ice age in the Hollywood style would harm the Europe much more than the North America. That's why we are doing at least something with global warming

 

[Fetus4188]

I don't think it's going to fall, I think it's going to change into something that can't really be called the US anymore.

 

[Taliesin]

If it does, I hope India and Europe, not China, will assume global dominance.

 

[Quasar1011]

I voted 0-100. How many of you have heard about the American Hiroshima? Basically, it is Al Qaeda's plan to set off small nuclear devices in as many American cities at once. According to some sources, Al Qaeda has procured 40-48 nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union. If they were to successfully carry out their plan, America would fall.

They might try this as early as September 11th of this year.

 

[farting bob]

I voted 0-100. How many of you have heard about the American Hiroshima? Basically, it is Al Qaeda's plan to set off small nuclear devices in as many American cities at once. According to some sources, Al Qaeda has procured 40-48 nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union. If they were to successfully carry out their plan, America would fall.

They might try this as early as September 11th of this year.

Do you watch fox news? You really cant take that story as serious, 40+ nuclear warheads on the black market is going to get noticed, especially when your part of the most hunted organisation in the world.

 

[Winner]

Do you watch fox news? You really cant take that story as serious, 40+ nuclear warheads on the black market is going to get noticed, especially when your part of the most hunted organisation in the world.

Well, I've bought one of these nukes from a Vietnamese stallkeeper. But don't worry, I will use it against domestic targets

 

[Capulet]

God willing, it will not.

I voted 0-100. How many of you have heard about the American Hiroshima? Basically, it is Al Qaeda's plan to set off small nuclear devices in as many American cities at once. According to some sources, Al Qaeda has procured 40-48 nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union. If they were to successfully carry out their plan, America would fall.

They might try this as early as September 11th of this year.

WorldNetDaily/Fox News bull****.

 

[greekguy]

i think we will slowly decline, but still remain in power for the next 100 years. when the oil runs dry, which IMO will happen at the end of century, things will get $hitty and then America will finally either get conquered, fall apart, or just no longer be the world's leading superpower.

 

[vbraun]

We will slowly fall behind in the Global Market, thus causing our fall. We won't be a superpower in 100 years possibly gone in 200.

 

[Bluemofia]

I would say in 150 years. Then the US would last about as long as the Roman Empire.

 

[Quasar1011]

Do you watch fox news? You really cant take that story as serious, 40+ nuclear warheads on the black market is going to get noticed, especially when your part of the most hunted organisation in the world.

Well of course it got noticed! Why do you think there are such stories circulating on the internet?

Here is what one former FBI official says about the subject:

But the most disturbing news is that high level U.S. officials now believe at least some of those weapons have been smuggled into the U.S. for use in the near future in major cities as part of this "American Hiroshima" plan, according to an upcoming book, "The Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming Apocalypse," by Paul L. Williams, a former FBI consultant.

According to Williams, former CIA Director George Tenet informed President Bush one month after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that at least two suitcase nukes had reached al-Qaida operatives in the U.S.

"Each suitcase weighed between 50 and 80 kilograms (approximately 110 to 176 pounds) and contained enough fissionable plutonium and uranium to produce an explosive yield in excess of two kilotons," wrote Williams. "One suitcase bore the serial number 9999 and the Russian manufacturing date of 1988. The design of the weapons, Tenet told the president, is simple. The plutonium and uranium are kept in separate compartments that are linked to a triggering mechanism that can be activated by a clock or a call from the cell phone."

According to the author, the news sent Bush "through the roof," prompting him to order his national security team to give nuclear terrorism priority over every other threat to America.

 

[luiz]

The Radioactive monkey will do it, obviously.

 

[Quasar1011]

God willing, it will not.

This is exactly America's problem. The more she throws off God, the more He lets us go our own way. I certainly hope nothing like this will ever happen. But I'd be naive to think that it couldn't happen here. I think I gave a legitimate answer to the question, "how could America fall?"

 

[North King]

@North king

Wouldn't most of those things affect the rest of the world too, not just america?

I don't think the rest of the world has to survive for America to fall.

 

[Babbler]

I think that it will remain the top dog in the world for at least the next century, especially if China and India go south. Then, it will start fading away, ending with civil wars balkanizing North America.

Looking at the poll, I believe people are underestimating the Americans (including the Americans themselves). While they are losing ground to Europe, India and China, and Bush has been a disaster, they still have a great deal of power.

 

[GenMarshall]

I doubt the US would fall. The only sign that it will fall is if Bush runs for a third term.

 

[alex994]

I doubt the US would fall. The only sign that it will fall is if Bush runs for a third term.

Anything that's made by man will eventually fall. Nothing we make is really permanet, not even the Great Pyramids

150 years is my bet