On Oct 22, 2018, Mr Salk wrote:

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On Aug 8, 2018, Mike Gainor wrote:
Feel free to share your strange thoughts on this thread.

My Strange Thought: How big would cats (house cats) need to be before they tried to eat us?

I mean, you could trust a dog as they demonstrate love and loyalty but cats seem only to tolerate us as bringers of food. I'm not talking about tigers or lions, though for the sake of this ST they could get to that size but I don't correlate tigers/lions to large house cats.

Their natural instinct to pounce and swat would become an issue as they grow larger - though I suspect they would play with us a bit (for entertainment purposes) before eating half of us and leave our remnants on the floor...

I've seen this comedy routine and it is hack. Cats don't eat babies or sleeping tots. House Cats, like horses, are domesticated and don't generally harm humans regardless of size.
If we were the size of mice we would have been unable to domestic them in the first place.

On Jan 27, 2019, Mike Gainor wrote:
Strange Thought #5

If there were ongoing solar flares which causes a world wide EMP (knocking out the grid,internet,and e-commerce) for the next 5 years(flares subside). What would you do?

So no credit cards, no access to the ATM, a car that wont start (unless it is really old), clogged highways, no phones, TV, or radio.

That 50 mile commute to work makes for a long walk home.

On Jan 30, 2019, ed rhodes wrote:
There’s a story called “The Waveries,” which I found in a book called; “Invaders of Earth.” The Waveries are electrical creatures that eat electrical fields. Once they get here, anything requiring electricity simply stops working! Man is forced into an 18th Century lifestyle!

On Jan 30, 2019, Mike Gainor wrote:

It is more true now than in the past. Just look how dependent people are with their smartphones. Most people don't even keep a vegetable garden anymore.

Communities are not as cohesive as they once were as well. Very few know the names of their neighbors or share any community trust.

No news may be good news may have been true in the good old days but no information today leads to speculation... all of it bad.

On Jan 30, 2019, ed rhodes wrote:
January, 1945.

Here’s the entire thing;

http://www.you-books.com/book/F-Brown/The-Waveries

On Jan 31, 2019, Roberto Juan wrote:
Good points. Consider how much more time people spend looking at a screen than interacting with other humans.

There are significant mental health repercussions for this. We evolved to depend on face-to-face social interaction and relationships.

I observe I'm now very reluctant to call friends and family to talk because I don't want to interrupt them - because they are so "busy"

On Jan 31, 2019, Mike Gainor wrote:

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On Jan 30, 2019, ed rhodes wrote:
January, 1945.

Here’s the entire thing;

http://www.you-books.com/book/F-Brown/The-Waveries

Thanks for the link. Interesting read (short story for those of you who may wish to check it out)

It was written in the 1940's (1945) and has that Guy's and Doll's feel about it. The real interesting thing is that it was being written about the future (1977), but people were still Guy's and Doll's. You see this in a lot of future stories. Lots of new technology, but basically the same speech patterns we use 'today'.

Makes me think back on Back to the Future with their prediction of life 30 years later. Where's my self drying suit?

The only thing I didn't like about the story is that we (as humans) took it on the chin from the 'vaders, rolled over an embraced our new and improved (old) lifestyle. Points for the Government taking control of essential resources but I don't see that flying today.