When will the world end?

User45701 · 17-11-2006 03:58PM

ixoy wrote:

Nah, we don't get anything so fancy as a black hole Current theory is that it'll enter a red giant phase before finally being a boring white dwarf. It seems earth mightn't even be immolated - merely have all its atmosphere and water vaporised! Where's the drama in that?!

We'll all have left in an ark by that point anyway, only for Dodo Chaplet to threaten us all with a cold..

Ye but think for a second, look how far we have come tech wise in the last 100 years now think that we have how many hundreds of millions of years to solve this problem it may seem like a massive unsolvable problem to us because of our small minds and limited tech but relay either we will just leave this solar system or we will find a way to re-ignite our own sun or prevent its demise maybe re-infuse it when it neers the end of its life cycle

englishineire · 17-11-2006 04:01PM

ixoy wrote:

Nah, we don't get anything so fancy as a black hole Current theory is that it'll enter a red giant phase before finally being a boring white dwarf. It seems earth mightn't even be immolated - merely have all its atmosphere and water vaporised! Where's the drama in that?!

We'll all have left in an ark by that point anyway, only for Dodo Chaplet to threaten us all with a cold..

Yep, Peasant and Ixoy thought along the same lines as me.... took only 1 hour 44 mins for it to show up, told you it was boring.

Am liking a lot of the other responses thou, besides those crappy one-liners like 'tomorrow' or 'Friday'... boys, you're not funny

So please, continue !!

Rb · 17-11-2006 04:02PM

User45701 wrote:

It would be nice if that went off in a few years, the only bad thing would be the loss of some great TV shows and actors

Yes, that would be the only bad thing that would happen if (or should I say when) Yellowstone erupts. What an idiotic thing to say.

chamlis wrote:

An asteroid a mile wide would cause quite a bit of devestation IMO. 5 to 10 miles and it'd be civilisation destroying.

Now, there are yokes out there heading this way that are 500 times + that size.
Kinda puts things in perspective. The only reason we are still here is because Jupiter is so big it tends to catch things that fly by.

Look at the Moon.
Look at Mars.
We're fooked

If the simpsons taught us anything, its that asteroids burn up on entry

Thank God for Jupiter I suppose! Hopefully we'll keep dodging the big ones.

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 17-11-2006 04:03PM

MrJoeSoap wrote:

28 days... 6 hours... 42 minutes... 12 seconds... that is when the world will end.

Somebodies a bid Donnie Darko fan!

petes · 17-11-2006 04:05PM

englishineire wrote:

Y
Am liking a lot of the other responses thou, besides those crappy one-liners like 'tomorrow' or 'Friday'... boys, you're not funny

So please, continue !!

You were expecting a completely serious discussion on after hours then?

MrJoeSoap · 17-11-2006 04:06PM

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote:

Somebodies a bid Donnie Darko fan!

Just a bit! Flippin' love that film.

Seth Brundle · 17-11-2006 04:09PM

According to Nostradamus, the world will end in July or August 1999!

monkeyfudge · 17-11-2006 04:13PM

There have been 5 mass extinctions on Earth so far with the last one being the one 65 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs. We're currently undergoing a 6th mass extinction and it isn't a asteroid this time it's the human race that's causing so many species across the earth to be wiped out.

As for asteroid impacts that might threaten us there isn't too much to be woried about... One named Apophis will be passing very close to the Earth in 2029 and should be very visible in the sky, now depending on how the Earth's gravity affects Apophis's orbit at that time it might be able to hit us on it's next visit in in 2036. The odds stand at about 1 in 6000 at the moment.

There is another one with a 1 in 600 chance of hitting the Earth and it's over a kilometre wide, so it would do serious damage. But it's not due until 2880 and I should hope that if the human race is still around by then we should be more than able for it.

peasant · 17-11-2006 04:14PM

oh yeah ...and Ireland wil be pretty FUBAR'd whenever that vulcano on the canaries decides to topple into the Atlantic ...

Think 10 m high tsunami rolling up the Shannon

17-11-2006 04:14PM

kbannon wrote:

According to Nostradamus, the world will end in July or August 1999!

Bugger.

You'd think someone wouldve told us by now.

thelordofcheese · 17-11-2006 04:14PM

Deleted User wrote:

Ha!

I think the world will end on a monday

I reckon a Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

englishineire · 17-11-2006 04:25PM

petes wrote:

You were expecting a completely serious discussion on after hours then?

Errr no. The keywords there were 'crappy' and 'one-liners'.

Why be completely serious if you can throw some humour in at the same time? (That's a rhetorical btw

)

chamlis · 17-11-2006 04:48PM

@ monkeyfudge
Yeah, those are the ones we know about.

Imagine this:
If you look at the Galaxy dead on and you can somehow keep track of where our sun is, you'll see that it's quite a bit away from the central nucleus of the Milky Way. Speed up time to about a million years a second, you'll see our sun orbiting the center of the galaxy much like we orbit our sun.
Now, picture looking at the galaxy Side-On. It's a line with a big bulge in the middle. Again, if you can keep track of our sun you'll see that it doesn't just follow a straight line like you might expect from looking at it edge on. It actually bobs up and down, passing through the center of "the line". This process takes about 60 million years. As you can imagine, the line is alot denser with stars. This is significant because......

Every planet in our solar system is on the same orbital plane bar Pluto (is it still a "planet"?). Most asteroids follow this plane closely also, some more than others. This is almost a flat 2-dimensional plane when you think about it.
But at the edge of the system (about a light year out actually) we are surrounded by a spherical "shell" of comets and asteroids called the oort cloud (Not to be confused with the kuipere belt (sp?) which is between mars and jupiter). This is a massive sphere of objects and is where almost all intersteller bodies actually come from.
That's fine, you say. Well, when we do our 60 million year "bob" through the galactic disk, and the density of stars becomes heavier, the results is that our neighbouring stars get closer. If the oort cloud is a lightyear from our sun, and our nearest neighbour Proxima Centaury (alpha Centaury

) is just over 4 lightyears away, and is 100% likely to have it's own oort cloud, you can see why we need to be worried. It's gravitational influence would upset our oort yokes, and either send them in towards us or out into space.

Ok to clarify: Jupiter is on the same orbital plane we are.
The Oort cloud is a sphere surrounding us.

We got **** coming from all directions, Jupiter can only catch whet goes near it.

is_that_so · 17-11-2006 04:57PM

I reckon it'll end on a lazy Sunday afternoon in the summertime when the weather is fine and the living is easy.

jacool · 17-11-2006 05:08PM

It'll be a human error to end it all - maybe nuclear, when we run out of oil and have to go that way as we get lazier, fatter and more automated.
hopefully we don't take out everything with us, but as we think we're so great, would we care ?
as our value on life decreases year on year, and everything becomes an instant hit, then onto the next thing, we're in an ever-decreasing circle as it is. we have mobile phone seasons now, what utter madness eh.
uh oh, i'm rambling

We're doomed i tell you, doomed !!

petes · 17-11-2006 05:10PM

jacool wrote:

we have mobile phone seasons now

The what now?

ScumLord · 17-11-2006 05:13PM

Anyone at anytime could predict Europeans and Middle Eastern would have some sort of war in the future we've been at each others throats ever since Jebus and Muhammad decided God liked it better their way.

I wouldn't be to worried about asteroids if there's any animal that can survive that it's us. We've been on the brink of extinction at least once before we're well used to it at this stage.

The biggest worry has to be peak oil but that's only going to kill off most of us, some will survive.

Anythings possible but an abrupt and to earth is highly unlikely.

touch wood.

esskay · 17-11-2006 05:15PM

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Ah well, looks like i was wrong after all.

the Shades · 17-11-2006 08:04PM

The world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday in fact. Just after tea...

Steyr · 17-11-2006 08:06PM

On a Monday because EVERYBODY hates Monday's and what better way to punish us then have the World end on a Monday.:D

Killaqueen!!! · 17-11-2006 08:17PM

Steyr wrote:

On a Monday because EVERYBODY hates Monday's and what better way to punish us then have the World end on a Monday.:D

Surely they would punish us by letting us live out a horrible Monday and then wipe us out later on in the week?

Anyway, I think we're pretty much due for an asteroid to hit but that won't destroy the world. I wonder what will...

Aliens? Massive world war? Global warming?

What will come first? It would be a great experiance to encounter. Too bad it won't be for billions of years.

monkeyfudge · 17-11-2006 08:19PM

ManBearPig.

mike65 · 17-11-2006 08:27PM

thelordofcheese wrote:

I reckon a Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Mike.

quickbeam · 17-11-2006 09:01PM

The Canary's falling in to the sea will cause a devestating tsunami on the East Coast of America. As I understand it, the land behind the Canaries (ie West Coast of Europe), won't be effected nearly as bad, even though we're closer.

Asteroids certainly can cause plenty of damage, and there's so many millions of them out there that we can't possibly keep our eyes on all of them, meaning that we could be taken by suprise one of these years with little warning (a year or two at most, if we're lucky), which still gives us little time to react to it.

Yellowstone is overdue for an explosion too - an explosion like none other seen in human history.

We're due another flu epidemic too like the one early last centruy which wiped out 100m people. And who knows what other diseases might emerge to wipe us out.

Then there's the turning of the earth's magnatism - north becomes south and south becomes north - that's bound to have effects.

And of course global warming.

Or a world-destroying nuclear bomb.

I think life (though not human life) will continue right up until the end, when the sun starts to expand and ends up absorbed into the outer corona.

bealbocht · 17-11-2006 09:33PM

about 6mins and 22 seconds after my bird finds out what really happen to her... I've said to much already...

Black Swan · 17-11-2006 09:37PM

The world does not have an end, cause it's round.

Plug · 17-11-2006 09:46PM

Did the world end yet? I thought it was fcuked back in the 6th of June according to the news.

Mike.

Did you every forget that little sig of yours?:)

Seth Brundle · 17-11-2006 10:06PM

quickbeam wrote:

The Canary's falling in to the sea will cause a devestating tsunami on the East Coast of America.

How can the likes of tweety cause a tsunami?

Thrill · 17-11-2006 11:08PM

Hasn't the OP heard of Google. Just type in your question. The answer to everything is on Google.

I think we are due an ice age soon. They say the same about buses though.

EDIT: Did a Google myself and found this piece which seems a bit more realistic than saying next Tuesday at 3:17 pm.

Its three (short) pages long

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=97756&page=1

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Capt'n Midnight · 18-11-2006 01:08AM

The sun expands
The moon slows the earths rotation so both face each other and then comes back in to us
Our galaxy is due to meet andromoda
all have similar timescales

IIRC protons or neutrons in atoms have half lifes so all the matter not in black holes will disintergrate
and the black holes will evaporate too

When will the world end?

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