how will it end?

[Leadfinger]

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

 

[mr leigh]

That or the internet goes down for a week and everyone kills themselves.

I can imagine that.
Lets check my facebook.... Wait? What? No internet? NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JamesStone]

Slowly, by attrition. Only if we do not master space travel and find an habitable planet.

 

[fish iron4]

The English Chav epidemic will spread to other country's and politicians, so the world will end up looking like the London riots, or people discover that human flesh taste's like bacon...

 

[Woodsey]

We will all be crushed under a giant pile of repeat threads.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.87117-Poll-Its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it#1305275

2 repeated threads in 3 years?!

 

[Soods]

We get blown to pieces when Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

 

[porpoise hork]

The earth will be swallowed up by our sun as it expands to a red giant.

 

[Idsertian]

Wow my discussion still going? I notice no-one has mentiond the wrath of god yet or the devil?

The Wrath of God caused the Devil to rise, who strode atop the Earth standing 100 feet tall, swinging a sword of fire and blood, smiting the human race in their hubris and pride of their technology. And when he was done he feasted on the flesh of those left alive and drank the souls of those he had killed, thus the world knew a terrible new era, the era of Lucifer, Prince of Darkness.

Happy now?

Daystar Clarion [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/Daystar%20Clarion] with his thread derailings and bangers and mash shall end the world. We just don't know it yet.

 

[geK0]

Statistically, we're already overdue for a massive meteoroid collision, so that's probably how we're going to go out. Unless we can establish a proper early warning system and build enough emergency shelters to preserve the planet as we know it, not much chance for survival.

Care to prove that claim? So far as I understand, the odds of a large meteoroid colliding with the Earth are quite minute. For starters, the universe is pretty damn large, making the likelihood of something hitting us fairly tiny. For seconds, our atmosphere means it's very, very rare that anything large enough to create even a football field sized hole ever strikes the surface of our planet. No doubt it will happen eventually (and it has happened before) but I fail to see how we are "overdue" for one such event.

But if you have some sort of proof, I would love to see it.

Statistics can put many things into perspective. For example, it may be unlikely that at any given moment you're going to stub your toe. But based on how many times you estimate you've stubbed your toe, if you went a year without doing so, that would be considered unlikely and statistically you are overdue for a good toe stubbing.

Given that within the past billion years we have been struck by multiple massive meteorites, so much that we even have official statistics on how often we can expect to be struck by which sizes. The past while we've had exceptionally few impacts and of minor significance, the Earth is overdue for a good toe stubbing.

Given that we've got roughly 1 billion years margin of error, it's almost certain that's how we will go out.

If I were to flip a coin 500 times and land heads every time, that would be EXTREMELY unlikely, but it would not mean that any further flips are more likely to be tails; the result of each flip is completely independent from previous flips.My next flip still has a 50% chance of being a head, assuming the coin hasn't been altered in any way.

So just because we have gone a long time without a pandemic meteor strike, does not mean we are more likely to be struck soon than any other time.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

When that valcono in Yellow Stone finally erupts. Thats what my money is on.

Well way to take the fun out of this...

My guess would be asteroid since there's proof that there's one barreling in our direction, and if that one misses, depending on how the earth's gravitational pull influences it, it will have another go and try again.

I DID NOT APPROVE OF THIS SECOND TRY SCIENCE!

EDIT: Or a total financial collapse, and then everything snowballing from there. FUN!

The 2038 one right?

I actually thought even if it hits us... like it'll be bad, sure, but not end of the world. At least last I did research on it.

 

[Andothul]

The world itself as in humanity i do not think will ever come to an end. at least nt in the for seeable future.

I believe that outside of a random blackhole swallowing up our solar system or some other random cosmic catastrophe Humans can adapt to survive just about anything the universe can throw at us.

I assume this question is about civilization as we know it today, because most apocalypse movies don't kill off everyone, just most people.

With that i'd say the most likely scenario to societal collapse and or end of civilization as we know it today would be: possible solar flare that fries all electronics,
likely a deadly worldwide pandemic,
more likely World War 3,
near certainty Global economic collapse

 

[Hazy992]

We will all be crushed under a giant pile of repeat threads.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.87117-Poll-Its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it#1305275

That thread is nearly three years old, do you really expect the OP to necro that?

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Wow my discussion still going? I notice no-one has mentiond the wrath of god yet or the devil?

The Wrath of God caused the Devil to rise, who strode atop the Earth standing 100 feet tall, swinging a sword of fire and blood, smiting the human race in their hubris and pride of their technology. And when he was done he feasted on the flesh of those left alive and drank the souls of those he had killed, thus the world knew a terrible new era, the era of Lucifer, Prince of Darkness.

Happy now?

Daystar Clarion [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/Daystar%20Clarion] with his thread derailings and bangers and mash shall end the world. We just don't know it yet.

[HEADING=1]Who dares summon me![/HEADING]

 

[BENZOOKA]

It will end like Monty Python And The Holy Grail.

 

[Da Orky Man]

Giant, sentient dinosaurs with a fascination of British culture from the future will go back in time to enslave mankind, making us their servants, with those who refuse to serve them becoming snacks.

What? I never said it was based on cold, hard science. This is all speculation

Well, in that case, us Brits are mostly safe. Sure we're all ruled over by dinosaurs, but we'll still have Doctor Who and tea.

 

[Idsertian]

[HEADING=1]Who dares summon me![/HEADING]

I have summoned thee, o dark lord of threads! So that you may feed once again! We must bring your dark gospel of our superior foodstuffs to all threads, thus ending the world as we know it!

 

[Daystar Clarion]

[HEADING=1]Who dares summon me![/HEADING]

I have summoned thee, o dark lord of threads! So that you may feed once again! We must bring your dark gospel of our superior foodstuffs to all threads, thus ending the world as we know it!

Very well.

My dark work shall now begin.

Ahem.

So...

About that weather huh?

 

[Marik2]

Found this long ass quote that I think might happen in the end

"This end of the world will occur without noise, without revolution, without cataclysm. Just as a tree loses leaves in the autumn wind, so the earth will see in succession the falling and perishing all its children, and in this eternal winter, which will envelop it from then on, she can no longer hope for either a new sun or a new spring. She will purge herself of the history of the worlds. The millions or billions of centuries that she had seen will be like a day. It will be only a detail completely insignificant in the whole of the universe. Presently the earth is only an invisible point among all the stars, because, at this distance, it is lost through its infinite smallness in the vicinity of the sun, which itself is by far only a small star. In the future, when the end of things will arrive on this earth, the event will then pass completely unperceived in the universe. The stars will continue to shine after the extinction of our sun, as they already shone before our existence. When there will no longer be on the earth a sole concern to contemplate, the constellations will reign again in the noise as they reigned before the appearance of man on this tiny globule. There are stars whose light shone some millions of years before we arrived ? The luminous rays that we receive actually then departed from their bosom before the time of the appearance of man on the earth. The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe?s history." ? Camille Flammarion, Le Fin du Monde (The End of the World)

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

When that valcono in Yellow Stone finally erupts. Thats what my money is on.

Well way to take the fun out of this...

My guess would be asteroid since there's proof that there's one barreling in our direction, and if that one misses, depending on how the earth's gravitational pull influences it, it will have another go and try again.

I DID NOT APPROVE OF THIS SECOND TRY SCIENCE!

EDIT: Or a total financial collapse, and then everything snowballing from there. FUN!

The 2038 one right?

I actually thought even if it hits us... like it'll be bad, sure, but not end of the world. At least last I did research on it.

My understanding is that IF we survive the hit, and I guess it depends on how it hits us, then it's not gonna be pretty, and I believe a good portion of people will be wiped out.

 

[Idsertian]

Very well.

My dark work shall now begin.

Ahem.

So...

About that weather huh?

I know, it's filthy right?

EDIT FOR LOW CONTENT: Typical British weather. Y U NO GIVE US WARM SUNSHINE? So, do you like, um...food?