How can we handle not one but TWO disasters at once?

[Optium]

But then I doubt there'd be anything that would randomly kill almost
eveybody and leave a few to survive throughout the entire world.

.opt

[Cloud No.9]

actually there was. toba. it blew up a few thousand years ago. and reduced the human race to 1,000 people. we knew this through genetics.

the toba volcano was on a size that is hard to comprehend. volcanoes on that size do still exist (insert ramble here about yellow stone).

but a few things could also reduce the human population to similar size. a meteor, nuclear war, other doomsday scenarios.

[Optium]

I'm not saying nothing can reduce humanity to a very small number, I'm
saying that I can't see any real scenarios where 1000 people would
live spread out all over the world. Like, 1 person in each province survives
randomly. It seems to me there'd be a couple of places where maybe 200
people would survive together, and there might be 5 places like this
spread out over the globe.

.opt

[Madame Adequate]

I'm not saying nothing can reduce humanity to a very small number, I'm
saying that I can't see any real scenarios where 1000 people would
live spread out all over the world. Like, 1 person in each province survives
randomly. It seems to me there'd be a couple of places where maybe 200
people would survive together, and there might be 5 places like this
spread out over the globe.

.opt

Right; the only reasonable scenario where this would happen is a virus something like the one we're talking about in the other thread. Mostly though, it'd be far more likely that a group would survive through some lucky occurance (Eg a nuclear war. But who the hell is going to nuke New Zealand?), and they're be in one place.

[Cloud No.9]

as far as i'm aware the eruption left 1,000 people who were all together. probably in africa somewhere.