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How Will The World End?

  • 29-04-2013 07:22PM
    #1
    The_Gatsby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭


    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?


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  • #2
    Rayne Wooney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,134 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    Astroid impact in 100 years.


    No Bruce Willis to save them then.


  • #3
    Joe prim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Joe prim


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


  • #4
    BBDBB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


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


  • #5
    honey83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭honey83


    I should start building my death star right now


  • #6
    IceFjoem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭IceFjoem


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


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  • #7
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


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


  • #8
    Tomohawk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭Tomohawk




  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


  • #10
    hyperborean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 655 ✭✭✭hyperborean


    the end

    fin


  • #11
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Tomohawk wrote: »

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


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  • #12
    Prodigious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭Prodigious


    A virus pandemic.


  • #13
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Dog AIDS


  • #14
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


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


  • #15
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    Which one.?


  • #16
    Reindeer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Reindeer


    It will end with multiculturalism.


  • #17
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    Snu snu... I hope ...


  • #18
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


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


  • #19
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    The_Gatsby wrote: »
    How do you think the world will end?

    Badly.


  • #20
    Cungi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 486 ✭✭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.


  • #21
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,673 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    When Jack Samson pulls the lever.


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  • #22
    honey83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭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! :D


  • #23
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #24
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭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.


  • #25
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


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


  • #26
    Zamboni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,292 ✭✭✭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.


  • #27
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #28
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Something like this I'd say


  • #29
    brokenarms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭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).


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  • #31
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,161 ✭✭✭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.


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