Apocalypse Scenarios

The apocalypse are a massive field of sci-fi that has been thoroughly explored and re-explored. There are thousands of movies, games, books, and TV shows based on the topic. By far the most popular topics of all are zombies and the "zombie apocalypse". Almost everyone knows about zombies and how they function and how to kill them. Another very popular popular topic is that of aliens and an alien invasion. Conspiracy theorists thrive on aliens. They search for videos and reported but not confirmed UFO sightings and spin theories about the aliens.

However, small apocalypses happen all time. Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires, and disease outbreaks are all examples of them. If anyone has ever been in one, they know what I mean. For days, weeks, or even months, society in those regions fall apart. People no longer have civilized needs or wants. Their only goal is to survive.

There is a type of person called a prepper. They spend the majority of their lives prepping for any kind of doomsday situation, including the ones that are real so far. Many of them have fortified houses, and build up massive stocks of food, water, medicine, and ammo. Most of them are trained with guns, knives, and/or blunt weapons. They often have bug-out bags ready to grab and go. Many have some sort of emergency plan and an escape route from their house or town, or sometimes even their country.  They are prepared for any situation.

An apocalypse is fun to think about. But it wouldn't be fun at all to be in. However, it's extremely fun to play in a lot of different video games, "surviving" the apocalypse through a virtual world. It's fun to read about and write about. That's living the apocalypse through a mixture of someone else's imagination and your own. It's fun to watch, too. Watching the apocalypse through a director's eyes and actor's skills. But I think that it just might be smart to have a good plan and be ready just in case a real one happens. Thanks, Aidan.

The Death Star

When most people hear of the Death Star, they think of Princess Leia in captivity and the spectacular explosion that destroyed it. But the Death Star is scarier than you think. I mean, just look at the super laser. It blasts planets like a shotgun blasts clay pigeons. The Death Star is most likely way larger than you think. Picture a town that is almost 10 miles and a perfect circle. If someone builds a sphere around said town, that's still only 1/10 of the Death Star's size.

The living and working areas of the Death Star limited. Don't get me wrong, the Death Star walkable space is still massive. But most of the rest of the space is devoted to a massive generator the size of 5 New York's. Other generators size of 1/2 New York. There are probably about 100,000,000 stormtroopers stationed inside. The outer surface is coated in nearly impenetrable armor and thousands of massive turrets. Although in the movie there was a weakness, it would be unlikely that such a flaw would ever be made. Really, I don't think that there would intentionally be a path directly to main generator from the outside.

The size of the death star may be hard to grasp. Do you remember the area that the Millennium Falcon landed in and everyone ran around and rescued people and all? That space that everything occurred in was probably not even a mile. AND, it was only on a few levels. It would be like running around a house compared to the rest of a big city. The Death Star is amazingly scary, no matter how not scary it may have seemed when its weakness was found and it was destroyed. Thanks, Aidan.