re: What is the worst day in human history? Not an event

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the worst day in human history?

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To the Dome

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What's your birthday?

Do you know the answer?

What is it?

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Come on man, you're better than this.

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Ive never understood why people say this to me


I'm not better than this

this is what I am

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the day Bubonic Plague reached Europe

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Good one.

The first day of the Toba catastrophe.

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Once upon a time, says Sam, around 70,000 B.C., a volcano called Toba, on Sumatra, in Indonesia went off, blowing roughly 650 miles of vaporized rock into the air. It is the largest volcanic eruption we know of, dwarfing everything else...

That eruption dropped roughly six centimeters of ash — the layer can still be seen on land — over all of South Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Arabian and South China Sea. According to the Volcanic Explosivity Index, the Toba eruption scored an "8", which translates to "mega-colossal" — that's two orders of magnitude greater than the largest volcanic eruption in historic times at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which caused the 1816 "Year Without a Summer" in the northern hemisphere.

With so much ash, dust and vapor in the air, Sam Kean says it's a safe guess that Toba "dimmed the sun for six years, disrupted seasonal rains, choked off streams and scattered whole cubic miles of hot ash (imagine wading through a giant ashtray) across acres and acres of plants." Berries, fruits, trees, African game became scarce; early humans, living in East Africa just across the Indian Ocean from Mount Toba, probably starved, or at least, he says, "It's not hard to imagine the population plummeting."

Then — and this is more a conjectural, based on arguable evidence — an already cool Earth got colder. The world was having an ice age 70,000 years ago, and all that dust hanging in the atmosphere may have bounced warming sunshine back into space. Sam Kean writes "There's in fact evidence that the average temperature dropped 20-plus degrees in some spots," after which the great grassy plains of Africa may have shrunk way back, keeping the small bands of humans small and hungry for hundreds, if not thousands of more years.

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The day the Spaniards arrived in Central America. Its is perhaps the single most pivotal day in history..the years after that millions of natives died from disease and, from that, our current genetic immunity rose to eventually supplant the various scourges

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Not the A bomb

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Not quite sure how this is not the only answer, Hiroshima anyway.

Most final death toll figures come out at around 1.2 million for a man made intentional event that took milliseconds to occur. This is not even delving into a post bomb world.

You would have to go back to ancient times and pinpoint a asteroid strike or super volcanoe eruption to get close to those numbers.

Rape of Nanking and Baghdad were really bad. Also the day the Library of Alexandria drowned. If Baghdad and Alexandria had survived in tact to the modern day, I'd bet we'd be 100+ years more advanced than we are today.

I am still amazed we got away with both of those bombs.