How will the world end?

[mrtenk]

hm. well the end of the world is a big question on everyones mind, but 2012 is a pretty obvious hoax and only extremely dimwitted individuals believe in that tosh.

But realistically, over the course of 1.1 billion years the heat from the sun will increase by 10%. It may not seem like much but at that point earth won't be able to sustain life. either we figure out ways to make simulated enviroments on our planet or we start terraforming other planets to continue our survival as a species.

the real end of the world? we'll we have about 5 billion years to go. The sun will run out of hydrogen to burn and it will start to consume helium. this will lead to expansion and over the course of 10s of thousands of years the earth will be consumed by the expanding giant. eventually the sun will collapse on itself and turn into a supernova.

So there you go. Source: Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible.

 

[Happy Toki Toki]

unstopable virus - now will you all stop with these shit threads

 

[fontlas]

Who knows, 2012 may be a hoax.

It is a hoax. The world will be just fine.

You're sexy.

 

[Icehearted]

This Mayan Calendar thing's happened before, many times over.

If by "the world" you mean people, I foresee overpopulation, or perhaps God's smiting hand. Lack of resources will result in more wars, real estate is not expanding, but human population is; right along with waste, consumption, and the rift between the have and the have-nots.

If by "the world" you mean the Earth, might likely be massively irradiated by the sun when it goes nova, rendering it barren of all life, on top of which the atmosphere will be destroyed, and everything on the planet will be cooked to a fine crisp. Whatever's left will then freeze over due to a lack of a nearby star. So essentially it'll turn into Mercury, then be quite a lot like Pluto, only larger and probably colder. Take heart, we'll be long extinct before that will happen, ergo trivializing the whole thing anyway.

The bible used the phrase "as a thief in the night". No matter what one believes, death is normally just that unpredictable. The extinction of all life will probably happen about like that as well.

 

[Balaxe]

A transferable virus that reverses the chemical in our brain that stops us going mental on each other all the time. In other words a Zombie Apocalypse!

 

[Sewblon]

The sun will burn out. It will be like the zombie apocalypse but with albinos.

 

[SextusMaximus]

It is a hoax. If you look at history, there were thousands of people who thought the world would end January 1st of the year 2000, and then a couple more thousand that thought it was 2003, and now all of a sudden it's 2012.
However, I don't believe the world will "end" like everyone thinks it will. T.S. Elliot kind of thing here. The world won't end with a bang, but a whimper. Once we use up every available resource on this entire planet we'll either leave or die out, leaving the world a dark, barren wasteland.

Yeah... after 2012 the next doomsday will be 2020 ect.

 

[The Last Parade]

global warming melts the ice caps, lowering the amount of inhabitable land and driving up population densities, eventually we over populate and a disease, either biologically manufactured as a weapon or a simple natural coincidence, either way, the disease spreads like wild fire, bye bye humanity

 

[blarg363]

Depends if i can just get a few more matches >=)

 

[AnneSQF]

In a few billion years when the sun explode like suns do.

 

[Frankydee]

with lots of fire.
I hope.

 

[ExileNZ]

In chaos and riots
The screech of machines
No right and no wrong
And no in betweens

 

[DemonicVixen]

Who knows, 2012 may be a hoax.

nah im certain its real. I don't believe however, what the scientists say. I know exactly how 2012 will end. First the new year will hit and everything will be peaceful. I will be sitting watching from the window waiting for a black hole to suck us up thanks to the big bang test.

Several weeks of waitng and im getting tired, bored and angry. How dare these idiots try and scare us like that. Fine now its time for war.

*Demonickitten attack mode set, claws sharpened and at the ready, teeth filed*

All you will see is me tearing everything up until there is nothing and no-one left at all.

*Kitten sits back, cleans the dust off herself and survays the smoking damage with pride*

 

[Ryuk2]

When earth hits sun.

Never? I don't think it's possible for Earth to hit the sun.

I don't think the world is going to end. Sure people are going to extinct some day, but Earth stays where it is and will be soon inhabited by different life forms. Even if there's a nuclear combined with zombie apocalypse and meteoroid. there still will be life on Earth. There still would be microbes, cockroaches, worms (?) and other beings. The universe is going to last forever and even if there's no life on Earth, aliens will some day come to here, maybe after billions of years, but still.

 

[Captain Blackout]

The world will end in five billion years when the sun becomes a red giant and boils all the water on Earth, and eventually burns the entire surface. It will possibly suck the Earth into it's gravitational pull, and it will collide with the sun, effectively destroying it. Now human's destroying what we know as Earth, that is an Earth where humans are the dominant species, I don't see it happening any time soon. Even with nuclear weapons, nuclear winter, what have you, people will survive in isolated areas. It's vain to think we have the power to destroy an entire planet, even an asteroid, or a polar shift can't destroy the Earth. They've happened before, and it's still here. The only things I can see causing mass human extermination are a particularly deadly virus, a massive asteroid strike which causes severe sun blockage due to particles in the atmosphere coupled with massive volcanic eruptions which also block out the sun with various particles. Even then, some life, humans included, will survive. Even if they don't, the world won't end. It will still exist, and go on as it has before, it may take millions of years until it has a plethora of flora and fauna, but it will continue until the sun destroys the entirety of the planet. And before it does, the planet will slowly boil and become a barren wasteland before it slowly succumbs to the heat and gravity of the sun. So in the end, I think T.S. Elliot was right. It will not end with a bang, but a whimper. Slowly boiling and getting pulled into the Sun until it's ripped apart by gravitational pull, probably turning into an asteroid belt. That's when the world will end, when it's nothing more than a bunch of rocks floating around a dying star.

Ya know I ninja'd you, just with far fewer details. Now that my dick is on the table go ahead and stomp on it 'cause I've got a question for you.

For me, "world" doesn't refer necessarily to Earth. My world is that which I perceive, my internal and external environment. That being so, my world will end (or restart, depending) when I die. That being so, the world for humanity will end when we finally die out. The real question is this, do you think humanity will survive beyond the planet that gave birth to it?

 

[Sinisterspider]

Zombies, hopefully. would be much funnier than nukes.

 

[RanD00M]

Not within our life times. I don't want to speculate because I want it to be a surprise for my kids.

That was a good one.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

I Really hope it's a zombie invasion.
My family owns a plant and tool hire so i got a LOT of power tool's =)

 

[ButanicXpandA]

the gamers wage war on Michael Atkinson and in a desperate final attempt of stubborn-ness, he quickly opens up a brief case with the instructions to divide by zero... and by doing so opens a wormhole that sucks him in ultimatly killing himself and taking us with him.

 

[Cargando]

I predict one of three outcomes:

1. [u/]Enviromental disaster.[/u]
Something like Yellowstone park erupting or the Deccan traps or a super-earthquake. That sort of thing.

2. [u/]Disease[/u]
A virus may resist all vaccines and antibiotics and destroy humanity like that.

3. [u/]Us.[/u]
Look at the weapons we have now. Now think how more advanced they will be in about 200 years time. All it would take is one bomb.