A few years ago just before I canceled my Netflix account there was this movie called "The Silence". The premise of this movie was basically that some hidden cave or something had these ancient, thought to be extinct, pterosaurs inside, and when they were released they took over the whole planet and killed most everybody.
Back in the early 2000s there was a movie called "Reign of Fire", and The premise of this movie was basically the same, except instead of pterosaurs they were dragons, but the same kind of apocalypse happened.
Both of these movies made me think about whether it would be feasible or not for such a creature to destroy the earth, or whether we would be able to take them out quickly enough. Imagine a creature was genetically engineered to be very efficient and to survive long periods of starvation, thirst, etc., and it was also Engineered to drop eggs off and leave them to hatch on their own, allowing it to spread quickly without putting all of its eggs in one basket (literally), and also engineered to have a desire to kill living things and only consume small amounts of its prey.
It doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility for such a thing to be engineered and released on the world as a means of killing everyone. What do you think? Do you think this would be impossible because of some kind of energy economics, diversity of biomes, etc.?
I suppose it would be even more efficient to engineer some form of insect that could survive in multiple biomes, and which is engineered to use venom to kill everything it comes across.
Kind of reminds me of this verse.
Revelation 9:1-11 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. 2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3 And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. 6 During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8 Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. 11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
OMG this is the first time I've read that chapter and thought of something entirely different... drones :/
Think about it: armor, loud whirring sound, whatever kind of weapon attachment you can imagine, etc.
Was thinking about billy gates’ gmo skeeters.
Yeah that's an interesting angle also.