I occasionally catch bits and pieces of the History Channel’s Mega Disasters – where scientists (who may or may not be crackpots) wax enthusiastic about their pet theories for civilization-altering disasters, set (in the History Channel’s typical style) to cheesy graphics and crudely-assembled stock footage of similar disasters.

Mega-wildfires destroying Sidney? A Tsunami drowning the entire east coast? A mega-hurricane erasing some other first-world metropolis? No matter; some scientist will appear, grinning like Comic Book Guy who’s just gotten the new Cthulhu Digest, as cheesy computer graphics show some hapless bystander getting swallowed by a tsunami, or stock footage from Indonesia’s tsunami shows a little girl being swept away from a group of other kids clutching an abutment?

Yeah, it’s entertainment. Of course, I’ve met the type of people who find disaster pr0n entertaining.

Ick.

These shows make my skin crawl; the people who get off on them make my  intestines crawl.

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