How do you picture the world ending?
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Giant octopus monsters devouring absolutely everything!
From the depth of outer space come the great and mighty Monsterpus armada. They are devouring and tentacling and sliming up every surface in their endless destructive quest for food and the souls and screaming of the pathetic human race!!
They tower over rooftops:
They emerge from the sea!
They have such might that all of mankind's greatest buildings collapse before them!!
And they now hold the entire planet hostage in their fearsome tentacles!!!
No one shall be safe, no one shall be free.... when.... the OCTOCAPLYPSE HAPPENS!!
... Alternatively I'll just use the mighty Sangheili fleet again to exterminate you human filth but in the meantime enjoy the giant octopus.
From the depth of outer space come the great and mighty Monsterpus armada. They are devouring and tentacling and sliming up every surface in their endless destructive quest for food and the souls and screaming of the pathetic human race!!
They tower over rooftops:
They emerge from the sea!
They have such might that all of mankind's greatest buildings collapse before them!!
And they now hold the entire planet hostage in their fearsome tentacles!!!
No one shall be safe, no one shall be free.... when.... the OCTOCAPLYPSE HAPPENS!!
... Alternatively I'll just use the mighty Sangheili fleet again to exterminate you human filth but in the meantime enjoy the giant octopus.
Well that's a complicated question, really depends on what you consider an end to the world. For example, in about eight hundred million years or so, the Earth will be so close to the sun that it's atmosphere will blow off leaving it a cinder incapable of supporting any life.
But as for the end of human beings specifically, it'll probably be something really stupid and easily avoidable that we just ignored until it was too late.
But as for the end of human beings specifically, it'll probably be something really stupid and easily avoidable that we just ignored until it was too late.
Corporate apocalypse.
After the world has been stripped of all it's resources, the poor kill themselves in the street for the amusement of those who stockpiled and grew fat in the intervening time.
Then, with no resources, and no more workers, the bourgeois quietly drink themselves to death.
After the world has been stripped of all it's resources, the poor kill themselves in the street for the amusement of those who stockpiled and grew fat in the intervening time.
Then, with no resources, and no more workers, the bourgeois quietly drink themselves to death.
Well I'm guessing the world will end when our sun dies. If you mean our current civilistaion we are either going to turn the planet into a glass parking lot with nukes or bring on another ice age by global warming.
Beyond rationality: no sane person is going to initiate a first nuclear strike. There's no benefit for them. However greedy or irrational you might think politicians are, what you're implying requires someone not just stupid or drunk on power, but literally insane (and bereft of checks and balances). You're saying they'd do it for oil, but who is going to think that initiating a nuclear conflict is going to win them oil? Unless they are to receive it in an afterlife.TestECull said:
The practically guaranteed risk of initiating a first nuclear strike in a nuclear-armed world is mutually assured destruction, and the threat of that is the point of having these weapons.
If you want to say that a person might take power in a nuclear-armed country who might want to usher in a nuclear apocalypse--be it to hasten Judgment Day, acquire virgins, or reincarnate as a superintelligent space crystal--fine. It's possible, even if there are many factors making it unlikely. What I take issue with is the idea that an administration would decide that an apocalypse is to their material benefit.
Hundreds of millennia away, when the future of mankind has long been extinct or expanded across the stars and other species have had their run at dominating the planet- long after the planet became barren of all life due to close proximity to the sun, Earth itself will be destroyed either by the expanding star or by it's cataclysmic explosion from a super nova. Returning that star stuff back to the cosmos from whence it came.
And maybe, some of that star stuff will meld and move its way along the galaxy. The Milky Way might collide with another galaxy in that time. And some part of the Earth we stand on will compact into another terrestrial or unknown planet, capable of life and compose another sentient organism that one day will also look out at the stars. The stuff of stars, contemplating the stars and their origins.
The same matter that was once us. There is only an end to the world as we know it.
And maybe, some of that star stuff will meld and move its way along the galaxy. The Milky Way might collide with another galaxy in that time. And some part of the Earth we stand on will compact into another terrestrial or unknown planet, capable of life and compose another sentient organism that one day will also look out at the stars. The stuff of stars, contemplating the stars and their origins.
The same matter that was once us. There is only an end to the world as we know it.
I have no prevailing thoughts on how the world will be annihilated. Our orbit is stable, the sun isn't going to die before humanity do (assuming we don't colonise other planets or do something similar), so unless the planet is hit by an asteroid of vast size or humanity create a device powerful enough to obliterate the planet, the sun will enter red giant phase and consume the planet in 5 billion years assuming the pending collision with Andromeda doesn't remove the solar system from the galaxy in 4.5 billion years. The earth might survive that, it is predicted the galaxies will merge, but whether it could still be called a planet afterwards is completely uncertain.
How humanity could die would take a thesis so I'll just say "apathy" in my opinion.
How humanity could die would take a thesis so I'll just say "apathy" in my opinion.
Well End Of Evangelion has been the coolest end of the world event I ever watched. Of course something else less interesting could happen I would just eat popcorn and watch as it happens.
As far as wiping out the human race goes, a massive asteroid impact (like the Mt. Everest-sized one that killed the dinosaurs) or large-scale nuclear war are the most likely candidates. Another star somewhere in the galaxy aiming a supernova at us is another possibility, though that's exceptionally unlikely. The Earth itself will likely only come to an end when the Sun dies, but that's so far away that we would have either been wiped out by one of the other three threats I just mentioned or we'd have moved on to colonize other planets. Almost anything else ("global warming," a super-volcano going off, or a medium-sized asteroid impact, for just a few examples) would be something that we could easily adapt to using technology, even if it did initially result in a significant death toll and a few lean years for our species.
Well, I prefer to think of zombies, cause it would be some awesome fun for a bit. However, what will prolly happen is our demise through something like the melting of the ice caps because of global warming, or something big will collapse because we drilled too much oil.
(takes a deep breath)
Global tensions brought on by increased populations and decreasing resources will spark global conflicts within unstable regions resulting in increased arms developments. In the race to create the perfect weapon without the destruction of natural resources, the zombie virus will be created and used, but grow out of control. To erase the virus, the world government will launch nuclear missiles to kill the undead hoards, but the resulting fallout will tear a hole in the fabric of space and time. This rip in reality will bring about all the mythological and religeous "end-of-days" scenarios, but these gods and deities will be wiped out by the coming aliens from another dimension, who seek to convert the godlike power into an energy source and morph what is left of humanity into repurposed slaves. However, these aliens will awaken the Old Gods, who will emerge from our oceans and fight with both the mythological deities and intergalactic aliens, with humanity struggling to survive within their changing planet. Unfortunately, the rip in space and time will continue to grow, causing our sun to go supernova and a blackhole to form, what we know of existence will collapse onto itself...
...and then like all things, the universe will come full circle, and the end will once again start at the beggining.
...and just for fun, throw in something about robots and global warming.
Global tensions brought on by increased populations and decreasing resources will spark global conflicts within unstable regions resulting in increased arms developments. In the race to create the perfect weapon without the destruction of natural resources, the zombie virus will be created and used, but grow out of control. To erase the virus, the world government will launch nuclear missiles to kill the undead hoards, but the resulting fallout will tear a hole in the fabric of space and time. This rip in reality will bring about all the mythological and religeous "end-of-days" scenarios, but these gods and deities will be wiped out by the coming aliens from another dimension, who seek to convert the godlike power into an energy source and morph what is left of humanity into repurposed slaves. However, these aliens will awaken the Old Gods, who will emerge from our oceans and fight with both the mythological deities and intergalactic aliens, with humanity struggling to survive within their changing planet. Unfortunately, the rip in space and time will continue to grow, causing our sun to go supernova and a blackhole to form, what we know of existence will collapse onto itself...
...and then like all things, the universe will come full circle, and the end will once again start at the beggining.
...and just for fun, throw in something about robots and global warming.