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> Ten deadliest natural disasters since 1900 > Rank Death toll (estimate) Event* Location Date > 2. 650,000–779,000 1976 Tangshan earthquake China July 1976
by anabis 12y ago
> Ten deadliest natural disasters since 1900
> Rank Death toll (estimate) Event* Location Date
> 2. 650,000–779,000 1976 Tangshan earthquake China July 1976
> 5. 230,000 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami Indian Ocean December 26, 2004
> 6. 229,000 Typhoon Nina—contributed to Banqiao Dam failure China August 7, 1975
> 7. 160,000 2010 Haiti earthquake Haiti January 12, 2010
> 10. 138,866 1991 Bangladesh cyclone Bangladesh April 29, 1991
I think about this scenario sometimes, probably won't be able to live with myself without trying to lessen the deaths.
- rdc12 12y agoBut how would you attempt to lessen the death toll, if you told people you would most likely be ignored or locked up in a loony bin
- prof_hobart 12y agoAfter correctly predicting the first couple, I'd like to think that people might start listening to you.
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- Fuxy 12y agoWould you really be willing to risk the continuum by saving them? Contributing the science is a small precision strike with somewhat predictable consequences saving people you don't know is a mixed bag it could have good consequences or it could have negative consequences and in ways you could never have predicted. The aim of a time traveler should be to keep as low as a footprint as you can and keep it positive or another time traveler may just have to come back in time to kill your ass to prevent your recklessness.
- Cthulhu_ 12y agoIf I learned anything from sci-fi, never mess with time; preventing things like this may have other consequences. What if a child that died in the tsunami was actually the next hitler? What if the population that remained developed a supervirus that kills the entire human race?