How and when do you think the world will end

[Monster]

Aliens from outer space will come down and visit the planet, but the army will go ape and attack them and the aliens will feel angry and wipe us all out with one huge bolt. We'll all die in a matter of seconds and the aliens will turn Earth into Borg Station CVMIV.

That is how we die.

 

[Dragon Mage]

The greatest likeliness of how the world ends is a catastrophic collision with a rogue asteroid. The results would be devastating. If it was large enough, the asteroid could shatter the tectonic plates beyond even time's ability to repair. Our magnetic field would wheeze and die, and we'd all be finely toasted by the solar winds. :3

Or, we would all be sucked into a rapidly moving small black hole! We'd know it was coming, too -- depending on which direction it was traveling, it could eat up some of the planets before it got to us. Since black holes, like stars, travel slowly (in galactic terms) then we'd know our doom for millions of years. By that time, we'd probably have already launched a colony ship to some distant star with a likely planet for living on. But for those left on EARTH, however, would feel the effects of the black hole once it came within range of earth for us to be affected. First, the gravity would seem to be lighter. People would bounce around like they're on the moon. Then, they would feel a slight 'stretching' effect -- this might even feel quite pleasant -- as the 'opposite gravity' of the approaching black hole slowly grows stronger than Earth's. Then, when it came close enough, the atmosphere would likely be sucked away instantly killing everything, then the surface of the earth would shatter (that would take a few decades) and it would all fall into the black hole. A space of a few decades, give or take some.


I do NOT believe any kind of global catastrophe would strike us down. Earth has been around far longer than we, and it is an amazingly resilient entity (if you want to think of it in terms of thousands of ecosystems ans habitats, then it is an entity). Earth has survived at least one should-have-been-disaster event (the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, notably) and has gone through many warm-cold cycles due to various other natural disasters. Also, with our advancing technology, our 'negative impact' on the earth as a whole will be greatly reduced once we get atomic batteries. Have we done some harmful things to the earth? Sure, maybe. But it'd take a concerted effort of every human being to make the planet implode. Don't let the media fool you into thinking we humans are evil and the scourge to the planet. We, too, are creatures of the earth.

And think on this: The USA is actually among one of the cleanest countries out there. I think I saw this in Reader's Digest. I will try to find it when I have the chance. Other countries that have badly regulated, or very minimal environment regulations are far filthier than the U.S., notably a number of the enforcement-lacking African countries and China, among others.

Aliens from outer space will come down and visit the planet, but America will go ape and attack them and the aliens will feel angry and wipe us all out with one huge bolt. We'll all die in a matter of seconds and the aliens will turn Earth into Borg Station CVMIV.

That is how we die.

Not only is this statement highly insulting, but it's racist as hell to boot. You've been watching The Day the Earth Stood Still far, far too much. I expected better from someone of such intelligence as you. I'm disappointed.

Of course, if you are joking, then know that it certainly doesn't look like it. But I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case.

 

[.Ted]

Being the religious type, I just believe the end will come when we least expect it. You probably have already heard the Christians' views on this subject, so I won't be telling you here. If you haven't figured it out already, I DON'T believe the world will end in 2012 like lots of people believe. It could happen, but I doubt it, since the entire world will be expecting it.

If I were to make up a theory, though, here it is. Look at all the disasters that have been happening lately. Earthquakes around the world like in Haiti, Indonesia, Chile, and now L.A. My mother always said that if an earthquake happened somewhere, someplace else in the world will suffer a similar fate. Think about it. When you hear about an earthquake, it only takes days for another country to suffer a disaster, be it another earthquake or a tsunami, etc.

Not to mimic the Day After Tomorrow, but I think we'll all die from natural disasters if Christianity is wrong. Tsunamis everywhere, tornado madness, earthquake damage. Kinda scares me now that I think about it.

 

[Rydia]

I heard things about scientist having the ability to speed up atoms or something like that and doing so could possibly collasp the universe. And then i've also heard that the technology to create a black hole the size of a nickel now exists, which is more than enough to suck up the entire earth.

I have no idea if that is actually true or not because I heard it from a friend, but that would be quite an anti climatic way for us all to go D:

 

[PhoenyxAngel]

Nuclear holocaust sometime in the hopefully distant future. It's definitely not going to end in 2012 because some calender ran out of space or whatever.

Or the Earth will continue to survive until the sun explodes some billion years from now.

Aliens from outer space will come down and visit the planet, but the army will go ape and attack them and the aliens will feel angry and wipe us all out with one huge bolt. We'll all die in a matter of seconds and the aliens will turn Earth into Borg Station CVMIV.

That is how we die.

Not if we have Will Smith. He'll take care of them. And Chuck Norris because he's Chuck Norris.

 

[Black Butler]

About people saying if it would be the sun to explode,then yes we will all die,no other way for the world to end except world war 3 with nukes,hopefully that wont happen.

 

[Valvalis]

Giant cream puffs will block out the sun. <_< >_>

In all seriousness though, I think people will run out of sustainable resources, and not realize it until it's too late. People should have realized that overpopulation was a problem during the plagues in Europe, when people lived so crammed together in cities that cleanliness was next to impossible. But population-controlling laws interfere with human rights, so they will never set worldwide per-household limits on childbirth; "screw all of us who are already here for the sake of noobs," I guess. But as long as people in developed countries continue to get resources from places they have never been, like the rainforests in Indonesia, they will never realize just how much they use. If you're cutting trees out of your own yard for paper, it's a lot more noticeable than when you're cutting them out of your neighbor's yard. And though it would be cool if people eventually expanded to the Moon or Mars, it would take thousands of years to introduce a sustainable atmosphere to either one, so in the gap in between really anything could happen.

 

[Æon Flux]

Im a nature person so I happen to think natures wrath will have her say and destroy humanity off befor we can fully succeed in doing it ourselves. Karma's a bitch and I think we have sucked the life from our world enough to get some justice from it back...so my say would be Nateral Disasters

 

[Channizard]

I believe we will be our own downfall. Statistics have shown (I'll dig em up somewhere if someone asks I'd just need to search hard enough.. cba right now ) that at the rate we are reproducing/multiplying, we will soon overpopulate ourselves on this tiny little Earth. And given our reputation of littering, we will suffer in our own surrounding filth whilst we are crowded on the subway. Mmm that's good trash bag.

I give it 72 years.

 

[van fanel]

scientific research say the world will end in 5 million years by a black hole in the middle of our galaxy, and before that happenes, our solar system will collide with another solar system to create a new solar system.

 

[bearsfwd]

Not only is this statement highly insulting, but it's racist as hell to boot. You've been watching The Day the Earth Stood Still far, far too much. I expected better from someone of such intelligence as you. I'm disappointed.

Of course, if you are joking, then know that it certainly doesn't look like it. But I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case.

What's so highly insulting about it? Aside from some of the details mentioned, it is entirely plausible that we could be attacked by an alien race, whether they attack us unprovoked, or we provoke them. Who's to say they'd want to kill us? Maybe they would just enslave us.

Until we have solid concrete proof that there is no intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, you can't discount it. You can believe or not believe they exist, but until we know one way or another for sure, nobody knows.

I don't believe that's how the world will end though. A full out nuclear war wouldn't be surprising, but I don't see that happening, at least not in my lifetime. I'm not a global warming supporter either (I think it's simply a scare tactic, and since I don't watch the news 24/7, if it was proven to be true, I still don't buy it), so I don't think we'll be wiped out by anything relating to that. The world will not end on 2012 (Y2K anyone?). The Mayan calendar is simply hitting the end of a cycle and is starting a new one...

I think an asteroid or a black hole seem much more likely right now. Granted, we can see asteroids coming (hopefully we see all the big ones and not just when it's too late), but black holes are a tough one.

The only other thing I can see happening is us killing ourselves off due to the way everything is being made for convenience. Convenience is nice, but when it makes people lazy, that's not good. The way it seems that everything is being dumbed down for people scares me a bit. In the distant future, is the human race going to become so dumb and lazy that we'll just die? Back up cameras in cars? Awesome idea...until people start relying upon that instead of turning their heads and looking. Cars that have auto-braking...that's cool too. How long until people just stop using their bakes because of auto-braking? Cell phones...let's just keep adding all kinds of little features that will distract people while driving. It's already bad enough that people text and drive...what's next, surfing the net and driving? Checking your stocks and driving? Playing games and driving? WORKING (blackberry people) and driving?

 

[Sum1sgruj]

In the relatively small amount of time mankind has been around, we've expanded tremendously in technology. In a million years, assuming that we are still around, Earth will be old news. So we can go ahead and cut out the idea of black holes and solar systems colliding.
As for asteroids hitting Earth, we can see and track objects in space light years away through calculus and light. We would know very soon if an asteroid were to hit Earth,, years before it happened.
The only x factor with that is spontaneous collision from two remote objects that spiral debri toward us, something that is very unlikely. Yet still possible_
The law of averages dictate that Earth will get hit at some point in time, but there is no way of knowing- the chances of an asteroid coming to our exact location is a percentage that stays the same, whether it's tomorrow or in a million years.
Solar flares are not all what people make them out to be. Earth will not get burned to ashes by a flare.
It takes sunlight 8 minutes to reach Earth. Solar flares would take forever in comparison, and even then, we monitor the Sun. We would have it handled by then.

The only thing I'm concerned with is the Earth itself. People mistaking a major shifting of the Earth for global warming and things of that sort_