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I'm increasingly convinced everyone is going to continue not to care, and then suddenly a 9/11-scale (or greater) event will occur, and it'll be 2002 all over a
by pharrlax 9y ago
I'm increasingly convinced everyone is going to continue not to care, and then suddenly a 9/11-scale (or greater) event will occur, and it'll be 2002 all over again -- wild overreaction driven by hysteria.
- pavement 9y ago(or greater) Wide-spread internet-enabled command and control, plus long term surreptitious reconnaissance, coupled together with machine learning to maximize impact, and I'll hazard a guess that such a scenario can reach beyond the destruction of 4 full airplanes and 3 inhabited large buildings, in ways too uncomfortable to contemplate.
- jacobush 9y agoThe impact of 9/11 was not just some airplanes and buildings - the impact was the whole of the Middle East in turmoil and a refugee wave not seen since WW2.