(07-11-2014 12:37 AM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  

(07-10-2014 07:45 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(07-08-2014 10:07 AM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(07-08-2014 08:07 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  The Plague

Plauges have had one positive impact. There are now people living in the world with an immune system so strong they don't catch diseases, including AIDS, hepatitis, and other deadly diseases. They are probably indestructible, as far as any disease is concerned.

Age is another matter. Time wears down all eventually.

The black plague wiped out 30-50% of Europe's population and killed a lot more people than any war or volcano. Not to mention, it prolonged a Dark Age they were coming out of for another 200 years and led to paranoia, holocaust and inquisition. While it did lead to some advancement in medicine and some Darwinism by attrition, I would say the overall impact was quite the disaster.

Maybe it killed more people than Toba but Toba killed a far larger percentage. The human population went from 3M to 30K.

Toba is prehistory. If some theories are correct, it may well have been a greater disaster than the black plague, but all we really know is an eruption took place. The black plague was the biggest disaster in history.

I do not buy the claim that it wiped out 99% of earth's population (3M to 30k). If it did that was certainly the biggest disaster.

As far as bitcruncher looking at the positive in the plague, a eugenicist could find positive in any disaster. I am sure Toba led to the European migration of the Aryan race, or something...