Doomsday Dreaming: PART II

Imagine if you will the Earth covered in a mist of gas from a nearby comet that envelopes the Earth’s atmosphere in a pea soup green mist.  Or maybe a Voodoo priest blowing a certain type of powder at you, then it looks like you die and you wake up inside of a coffin buried alive.  Also there is this possibility that you could catch a virus that was made by man to cure a specific disease and you become more of a scientific answer to the problem of a zombie apocalypse.

 

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War Dogs of the World

It was just one year ago that the world first heard of Cairo, the dog who joined the mission that took down the world’s most hunted terrorist, Osama bin Laden. The news sparked something of a sensation, and while Cairo might be the world’s best-known war dog, he’s far from a lone fighting force.

 

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World’s Military Spending Map

How much do countries spend on their militaries? This data from the Stockholm International Peace research Institute shows the world in arms spending – both in dollars over time and as a percentage of GDP.

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Reconstructing Destruction

Art is a beauty while war is a duty. For war gives a shrewd excuse for destruction, while on the other hand, art helps in prevailing sanity with its creative and comforting power. If men can create terrifying weapons, one can really imagine man’s intelligence to make a creative use of destructive weapons. Weapons cannot beget aesthetics, or can they? Can something that is made to draw life become the life of your living room? Have a look at “Warcraft” being turned into “Handicraft.”