How Will The World End?

The_Gatsby

How do you think the world will end? Obviously there are plenty of theories but I'm not sure which I think is most likely to happen.

Surely we're not stupid enough to kill ourselves in a nuclear war and I don't think we'll ever have the technology for interplanetary travel. All that's left is waiting for the sun to die in ~6billion years but that's a very long time.

When's the next judgement day?

Rayne Wooney

Astroid impact in 100 years.


No Bruce Willis to save them then.

Joe prim

not with a bang, but a whimper ( at least according to T.S. Eliot)

BBDBB

"You Maniacs! You blew it up! God Damn you! God damn you all to hell!"

honey83

I should start building my death star right now

IceFjoem

Cats will probably take over once they're certain everything is in place.

The Backwards Man

There's no point any of us worrying about it, we'll all be dead anyway.

Tomohawk

How do you know that the world hasn't already ended and this is, in fact, the afterlife?

hyperborean

the end

fin

kraggy

Tomohawk wrote: »

My favourite film. It's a work of pure art. Amazing script the whole way through.

Prodigious

A virus pandemic.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Dog AIDS

FloatingVoter

You'll see the credits roll, the lights will come up and we'll leave the cinema.

3ndahalfof6

Which one.?

Reindeer

It will end with multiculturalism.

Reckless Abandonment

Snu snu... I hope ...

Seaneh

It won't end, we will just die off or kill ourselves.

Fr_Dougal

The_Gatsby wrote: »

How do you think the world will end?

Badly.

Cungi

The_Gatsby wrote: »

How do you think the world will end? Obviously there are plenty of theories but I'm not sure which I think is most likely to happen.

It will be engulfed by the sun in a few billion years time.

artanevilla

When Jack Samson pulls the lever.

honey83

Tomohawk wrote: »

I love the amount of cursing while mentioning the Bible. Over in the states people freak out about cursing , lol love it!

Grayson

If it's human civilisation dying out, I'd recon it would be climate change. But it would be accompanied by all the wars that are going to happen this century because of dwindling resources.

3ndahalfof6

Grayson wrote: »

If it's human civilisation dying out, I'd recon it would be climate change. But it would be accompanied by all the wars that are going to happen this century because of dwindling resources.

Coal? and which world, for the love of jeebus.

Seaneh

Or, if you mean ultimately. there is the whole Sol going supernova and burning the planet up in a few hundred billion years.

Zamboni

Grayson wrote: »

If it's human civilisation dying out, I'd recon it would be climate change. But it would be accompanied by all the wars that are going to happen this century because of dwindling resources.

It certainly won't be with dignity anyway.

corktina

Grayson wrote: »

If it's human civilisation dying out, I'd recon it would be climate change. But it would be accompanied by all the wars that are going to happen this century because of dwindling resources.

i think with the explosion in population, a super-plague will develop which will wipe out mankind, or in the very least reduce it's numbers to a sustainable level.

My name is URL

Something like this I'd say

brokenarms

The sun with go pop and the earth will be destroyed.

Or will it?

It will simply change to something else. Like petrol turns to carbon.

3ndahalfof6

corktina wrote: »

i think with the explosion in population, a super-plague will develop which will wipe out mankind, or in the very least reduce it's numbers to a sustainable level.

What about the wimins, (so disappointed in you).

af_thefragile

There will be a great war, possibly WW3.
With dwindling natural resources, high population and nuclear weapons, we'll finally accomplish what we didn't dare to during the Cold War. MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction!

After that what's left of humanity will try to survive a nuclear winter. Ball could roll either way. We may manage to rebuild society and live peacefully once again for a while or we may simply kill each other to extinction.

Ultimately a great meteorite will strike the earth and finally seal the deal. Goodbuy humans and their ambitions, dreams, poetry, literature, history, philosophy, all consumed by the dust that gave it life.

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Standard Toaster

The world ain't going anywhere, we'll be long gone before the earth snuffs it.

I'd guess some plague/epidemic would wipe most of us out at some stage. It is estimated that over 99.9% of all species that ever lived are extinct so humans are quite the exception.

Interstellar colonization where it's at jack.

hellyeah

the world wont end. We will.

3ndahalfof6

af_thefragile wrote: »

There will be a great war, possibly WW3.
With dwindling natural resources, high population and nuclear weapons, we'll finally accomplish what we didn't dare to during the Cold War. MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction!

After that what's left of humanity will try to survive a nuclear winter. Ball could roll either way. We may manage to rebuild society and live peacefully once again for a while or we may simply kill each other to extinction.

Ultimately a great meteorite will strike the earth and finally seal the deal. Goodbuy humans and their ambitions, dreams, poetry, literature, history, philosophy, all consumed by the dust that gave it life.

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

The last bit sounds like Mars, is this the world we are talking about, I just need to know which world, for christies sake.

af_thefragile

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Interstellar colonization where it's at jack.

Until the aliens decide to colonise us first!!


Yes I've been watching lots of x-files lately...

jamo2oo9

What if Mars was once like Earth, millions of years ago and the civilisation lived on Mars had to leave because of a nuclear war thus leaving the planet a barren wasteland and moved away to somewhere else. What if we are the mirror of them?

3ndahalfof6

hellyeah wrote: »

the world wont end. We will.

HELL YEAH.

Royal Irish

Facebook will go down and 1 billion people will go insane and crack open peoples heads and feast on the goo inside.

derfderf

The neutrinos will mutate.

My name is URL

hellyeah wrote: »

the world wont end. We will.

Of course the world will end.. Sooner or later it's going to be swallowed by the Sun and even if that doesn't happen; it's hypothesized that as the universe expands ever more rapidly, that a time will come when astronomical bodies start to tear themselves apart.. even at an atomic level.

In the last minutes, stars and planets would be torn apart, and an instant before the end, atoms would be destroyed.

noxqs

Actually it wont be 6 billion years until the sun will end all life on earth. By most estimates, it will be around 600 million years before life on the surface will end (CO2 levels will drop below level required for photosynthesis), higher evolved species will have died out long before then.

1.1 billion, the oceans will have evaporated, until the earth will finally be absorbed by the Sun in 7 billion years.

Life on this planet is 3.6 billion years old, but has only 300 or so million years left. It's basically 90% over.

Humans are unlikely to last a fraction of a fraction of that.

af_thefragile

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

What if Mars was once like Earth, millions of years ago and the civilisation lived on Mars had to leave because of a nuclear war thus leaving the planet a barren wasteland and moved away to somewhere else. What if we are the mirror of them?

Until humans finally land on mars and discover dark secrets of a forgotten history.
Maybe the governments are onto something. They don't give **** about water and bacteria, they're found the traces of the lost martian civilisation and the rovers have been sent to look for more evidence of their existence. Until the rovers finally stumble upon the life force of the martian civilization buried deep in the martian soil. Samples return to earth, humans get infected and the recolonisation begins!!

Damn I come up with better sci-fi plots that hollywood bothers with these days!!

af_thefragile

Royal Irish wrote: »

Facebook will go down and 1 billion people will go insane and crack open peoples heads and feast on the goo inside.

+1 for imagery!

honey83

After giving it some less than serious thought. Like War of the Worlds. Yes, like that. Hope Tom Cruise is there too.

3ndahalfof6

honey83 wrote: »

After giving it some less than serious thought. Like War of the Worlds. Yes, like that. Hope Tom Cruise is there too.

So what your saying is you really don't know.

seenitall

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.



Robert Frost (1874-1963)

honey83

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

So what your saying is you really don't know.

Yes, I never really was good at guessing.

3ndahalfof6

noxqs wrote: »

Actually it wont be 6 billion years until the sun will end all life on earth. By most estimates, it will be around 600 million years before life on the surface will end (CO2 levels will drop below level required for photosynthesis), higher evolved species will have died out long before then.

1.1 billion, the oceans will have evaporated, until the earth will finally be absorbed by the Sun in 7 billion years.

Life on this planet is 3.6 billion years old, but has only 300 or so million years left. It's basically 90% over.

Humans are unlikely to last a fraction of a fraction of that.

Great minds are thinking about this, the most extravagant idea is turning a planet into a space craft, (nothing is beyond the bounds of possibility),

1 million years is a long time, a solution will be found and we will once again prosper on different terms.

Duckworth_Luas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvCUmeoHpw

OneArt

Cats will show their true intelligence and turn out technology against us (because they planted special cat-chips in everything). They'll then enslave humanity and some of us will have to toil on vast farmlands harvesting catnip to fuel their hedonistic lifestyle. The rest of us will have to help in the construction of giant cannons to defend the planet from oncoming hoards of Vermicious Knids.

Wibbs

noxqs wrote: »

Actually it wont be 6 billion years until the sun will end all life on earth. By most estimates, it will be around 600 million years before life on the surface will end (CO2 levels will drop below level required for photosynthesis), higher evolved species will have died out long before then.

1.1 billion, the oceans will have evaporated, until the earth will finally be absorbed by the Sun in 7 billion years.

Life on this planet is 3.6 billion years old, but has only 300 or so million years left. It's basically 90% over.

+1 Yea I always found that fascinating. Life on earth is defo way past middle age. It'll likely go in reverse, all higher life dying off until all that's left is bacteria and other single celled life, until that finally dies off. Really tough bugs may make it out to a billion odd, but we would be long gone. Unless we or another hyper intelligent species comes along and has the power to fiddle with stars. Unlikely really, though you never know.

If that does come to pass, it's likely to be our "descendants". If human life dies out entirely and leaves no progeny, IMHO the chances of another intelligent lifeform like us is vanishingly slim. Why? As noxqs points out, life is around over 3 billion years, most of that time as glorified slime. Higher animals came much later(and the Earth is still mostly "slime"). Now over the history of higher life many niches have been exploited and many responses to environments have sprung up. EG flight. Birds, do it, bees do it, even educated... oh wait. Reptiles have done it, even mammals. Swimming another one, dolphins look like sharks, who look like ichthyosaurs etc Yet our killer app, intelligence has only come along once in one offshoot of the great apes. Even there we didn't do much with it until say 80,000 years ago. So while I think you'll have more animals who look "fishlike" evolving in time, intelligence may be a really bloody rare one off.

Basically all species go extinct. We may, by virtue of this mind of ours buck that trend. After all we've bucked evolution as it is. We're unique, the only lifeform so far know that has directed it's survival through extraevolutionary means. So we may survive far longer than we can imagine, or at least those we build as our replacement may. We also need to get off this earth. We need to leave home. Just having a second home massively improves our chances of survival. Again we may be too delicate to do this, too short in life, but our descendants may not be.