A slightly different Apocalypse thread

[Shoggoth2588]

Alright!

If recent bits of news and whatnot are to be believed, humanity will be smashed to pieces but a methane bubble in the next 6 months

[link]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.211700-So-Guys-Were-going-to-all-die-this-time-again?page=1[/link]

The remaining dregs of humanity will be plagued by unknown horror in December of 2012; likely the reborn Montezuma riding astride Quetzalcoatl.

[Info on this is almost literally EVERYWHERE]

Then, the remaining humans who haven't been killed by poison gas and ethereal Gods of a bygone age will be killed off by a solar flare in 2013. The Mayan horrors from beyond will probably be killed off too...as will the zombies which will have likely sprung up after the methane bubble thing...

[link]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.202483-The-end-of-the-world-comes-a-year-late[/link]

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Now then: These are not the first doomsday threats we have had to live through. The latest before this which I am aware of is the Y2K scare. That was supposed to cause computer failures which could have likely caused weapons of mass destruction to launch themselves. Airplanes would have fallen from the sky. All sorts of other horrible things would have happened. They didn't.

Before this, I remember hearing something in the early 90's about Jesus returning and giving an apocalyptic message on every TV in the world. This didn't happen either. I know I can't be the oldest person on here so, does anybody remember any other apocalypse theories/ scares from the 90's or earlier? This has been bugging me for a while now >.>

 

[child of lileth]

Y2k is the only one I remember. Wasn't there Regan talking about aliens, and how we need to unite the world incase of a threat from them? I was born in the late 80's so I didn't really see the t.v. speeches personally.

 

[octafish]

M.A.D. from the eighties. Wasn't just a theory or a scare though, but a very real threat.

Also A.I.D.S. before there was any treatment.

 

[AvsJoe]

I remember a meteor was supposed to strike the western United States and severely damage the Earth around 1996. But then it veered off course. A few people worked themselves into a frenzy about it though.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

I prefer Y2K38... go look it up... right here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem]

This actually has the potential to drop planes out of the sky and delete all our facebook accounts.

 

[Okuu_Fusion]

My friend believes that some planet called Nibiru will pass right on by next to earth, and aliens will just stop on by an visit

 

[GunboatDiplomat]

Global warming.

Temperatures were going to rise and cause increased extreme weather and kill lots of people and do loads of damage but that never happ....

.... oh crap.

 

[manythings]

M.A.D. from the eighties. Wasn't just a theory or a scare though, but a very real threat.

Also A.I.D.S. before there was any treatment.

Well M.A.D. was more the means of kerbing (curbing?) the nuclear threat since it "Mutually Assured Destruction" meaning "You can blow us up but we'll blow you up just as much".

About 5 years ago, I think, there was that whole bollocks about the Earth's Magnetic Poles flipping (North and South would switch) that would destroy everything that relied on any form of technology.

On the solar flare count that is what the Magnetosphere protects us from, the Auroras are solar radiation impacting this layer and a solar flare will never penetrate it. Seriously, in 2003 (I know for certain it was after 2001) the Earth passed through a Category X (or Type X, whatever) solar flare which is the most powerful and destructive kind of solar flare. Guess what didn't end...

On the Mayan score the calendar ends then but there is and never was any prophecy. It's basically the equivalent of saying the world will end on December 31st because that is when your calendar ends.

Global warming.

Temperatures were going to rise and cause increased extreme weather and kill lots of people and do loads of damage but that never happ....

.... oh crap.

All the way up until the late 70's-early 80's it was the evils of the period of global cooling that would usher in the new ice age and DESTROY US ALL!!!

EDIT: Just to complete that when they said this it was accompanied with the certainty of "Just you watch the year on year drop in temperatures" (I'm pretty sure it was on the cover of Time magazine) and when temperatures started getting higher they said "SEE! We were right ALL along!" (Apparently the amount of radiation being given out by the Sun has been increasing year on year since we had satellites to detect it as it is going through a state of change). Everything humans do contributes about 3% of the overall CO2 produced on the planet earth. Best start killing everything else to get it under control.

2nd EDIT: NASA are famed for being "We're Right, You're Wrong"-ists because being in NASA is an automatic victory as far as they are concerned but looking at a lot of plain unscientific bollocks they came out with (Challenger happened even after someone said we shouldn't send it up because it will explode for the exact reason it was destroyed) so don't think the fact the have an acronym puts them beyond reproach.

3rd EDIT: Apocalypse doesn't mean "the end of the world".