sorry but just have to say that this is the daily mail and you can't really take what they print seriously these days ( well IMO)Raven said:
OT: My ideal end of world would be zombies, but i think in all honesty it will be global warming.
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OT: My ideal end of world would be zombies, but i think in all honesty it will be global warming.
Godzilla will appear and have explosive incontinence. Then, someone will fire something at it that causes fire or explodes.
End of Earth.
Failing that, religion's relevance will start to fade away from social and political positions of power as the people realize it's the leading cause of death, hatred and destruction...so religious wingnuts will attain nuclear weapons and destroy everything before they lose said power in an attempt to make people realize God loves them but only if you worship him in their special way.
Failing that, I will clog 38 toilets simultaneously and then divide by zero. Preferably after Thanksgiving or Christmas.
End of Earth.
Failing that, religion's relevance will start to fade away from social and political positions of power as the people realize it's the leading cause of death, hatred and destruction...so religious wingnuts will attain nuclear weapons and destroy everything before they lose said power in an attempt to make people realize God loves them but only if you worship him in their special way.
Failing that, I will clog 38 toilets simultaneously and then divide by zero. Preferably after Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Zombie Apocalypse that awesome and I be one survives as I have so much knowledge about zombie from watching TV and movies and playing games
I think an asteroid would be the most likely. There are craptons of rocks floating around in space as we speak. The possibility that even one could cross our path seems pretty high to me. If it was big enough, I doubt there would be any way to destroy it before it hit. Some would run, some would cry, and some would sit back and accept their impending doom.
It'd be like Majora's Mask all over again! Except, y'know, no physical embodiment of all evil throwing the moon into Earth for kicks.
It'd be like Majora's Mask all over again! Except, y'know, no physical embodiment of all evil throwing the moon into Earth for kicks.
Well, the most obvious answer is when the Crab People appear from the depths of the ocean to reclaim there forgotten homeland.
The daily mail have a reputation for sensationalism not outright lying. Their news is often as reliable as any other, and certain topics however are presented with a clear political bias or sense of personal outrage. This article displays no such behaviour.ELCTea said:
True, but it's a pretty big bang none the lessDJjaffacake said:
OT: I think it would be pretty hard for man to kill every single person out there. Quite impossible even to kill every single living thing. The most damage would be done by an asteroid I think and even that wouldn't wipe out all life (although it has a high chance of wiping out human life).
I know a virus is a favourite for a lot of people out there. But finding a virus for which noone is immune is quite a feat. Something even nature doesn't come up with. And mother nature can be quite the vindictive *****. Lately there is much scare about the bird flu. People going: it will kill us all! oh noes!
It will not kill us all. It's just the flu... The only difference is it is a completely new strain for which we have no antibodies yet. Estimated death toll world wide is in the millions. Not billions.
A nuclear fallout will kill our civilization but not our species (most likely). Unless they either A)drop a few bombs in our upper atmosphere B) nuke every last square inch of our planets surface. And I mean every last inch! Not just the major cities. Who would want to nuke canada or australia
? That's my two cents.
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Uncle sam:Give us water/oil/food!s0p0g said:
Other country: No!
Uncle sam: Fire the nukes!
Other country: Omg you're such a di-*BOOM*
Uncle sam: deploy the troops to get the food/water/oil!
General: eh sir... what about the nuclear fallout contaminating everything? Besides you blew up 3/4 of the food supply.
Uncle sam: Fuck... clearly I did not think this through
I think my avatar is quite appropriate in this situation.
What is the 'end of the world' in this case? Complete destruction of the planet, every single last human being, or just current civilisation?
Completely destroying the planet itself is unlikely, unless the sun would go. All-out atomic war or an asteroid strike (or gamma ray burst, etc) could really mess things up, but is unlikely to truly exterminate all life. The chance of it being 'just another extinction event' is far greater.
Destruction of humanity is a possibility, but we're very tenacious, and everywhere. Even in the case of a mass extinction event, we're likely to be able to adapt (even though we'd have horrible amounts of casualties and all that). There's 7 billion of us, and we only need a few thousand survivors for re-population / keeping the species going. If 0.00001% of humanity would survive, that'd be 70 000 people right there.
Destruction of current civilisation is a very real possibility, especially because our society is so highly developed. Our trade routes, food supply and energy networks are all very extensive, complex and fragile, and we really can't do well without.
The most interesting idea though: What if humanity transcended it's humanity? By 2030 we could've cured most diseases with Genetics, Nanotechnology and Robotics, and dramatically change what it means to be a human being. By 2040, people might spend more time in virtual reality than in the real world. This would be the best-case scenario 'end of the current world'.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
Completely destroying the planet itself is unlikely, unless the sun would go. All-out atomic war or an asteroid strike (or gamma ray burst, etc) could really mess things up, but is unlikely to truly exterminate all life. The chance of it being 'just another extinction event' is far greater.
Destruction of humanity is a possibility, but we're very tenacious, and everywhere. Even in the case of a mass extinction event, we're likely to be able to adapt (even though we'd have horrible amounts of casualties and all that). There's 7 billion of us, and we only need a few thousand survivors for re-population / keeping the species going. If 0.00001% of humanity would survive, that'd be 70 000 people right there.
Destruction of current civilisation is a very real possibility, especially because our society is so highly developed. Our trade routes, food supply and energy networks are all very extensive, complex and fragile, and we really can't do well without.
The most interesting idea though: What if humanity transcended it's humanity? By 2030 we could've cured most diseases with Genetics, Nanotechnology and Robotics, and dramatically change what it means to be a human being. By 2040, people might spend more time in virtual reality than in the real world. This would be the best-case scenario 'end of the current world'.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
Viral contagion is just a matter of time and immoral governments. See "The Stand" for a surprisingly believablee 'patient zero' hypothesis (accident in viral lab, soldier flees with intent to die with/escape to loved ones, infects massive chunk of america, madagascar closes seaport)
Other than that, asteroids have happened before, and will happen again. Just a matter of waiting (and assuming we don't have cheap spaceflight by then)
Other than that, asteroids have happened before, and will happen again. Just a matter of waiting (and assuming we don't have cheap spaceflight by then)
If the bible is right the world will explode. (sly dylan quoting FTW)
Seriously though I'm rooting for Cthulhu apocalypse, it's got everything an we're powerless to stop it.
Going from the sheer statistics of movies I'd have to say zomies though.
Seriously though I'm rooting for Cthulhu apocalypse, it's got everything an we're powerless to stop it.
Going from the sheer statistics of movies I'd have to say zomies though.
Nukes or some random event on a galactic scale that we have no control over.
Global warming is a serious problem but it's never going to cause the end of the world or the extinction of humanity. I'm not saying it won't casue the deaths of billions of people however.
For tech to cause the end of the world you need to allow stupid people to do the programming, the idea of an artificial intelligence going rogue and taking over the planet is fundamentally flawed in that any Ai that we're likely to create is going to lack even a basic will to live unless we program it in.
Zombies are too mainstream now, everyone would know how to deal with them
I don't see a virus completely wiping out the species as a likely outcome, we're very good at adapting to known threats and to be honest we aren't too far off technology capable of almost all disease. (give it 50 years)
Aliens would be cool, I wanna meet an alien :3
Global warming is a serious problem but it's never going to cause the end of the world or the extinction of humanity. I'm not saying it won't casue the deaths of billions of people however.
For tech to cause the end of the world you need to allow stupid people to do the programming, the idea of an artificial intelligence going rogue and taking over the planet is fundamentally flawed in that any Ai that we're likely to create is going to lack even a basic will to live unless we program it in.
Zombies are too mainstream now, everyone would know how to deal with them
I don't see a virus completely wiping out the species as a likely outcome, we're very good at adapting to known threats and to be honest we aren't too far off technology capable of almost all disease. (give it 50 years)
Aliens would be cool, I wanna meet an alien :3
Are you american? If so, we in the Uk and other countries already have 3-4 times your fuel prices. This kind of thing always amuses me, it's like that doomsday scenario I read once where someone was talking about anarchy caused by tax rising to 30%.Esotera said:
Nuclear war will never happen. You really have to be an idiot to believe it will. If one country launches nukes, other countries will launch nukes, then allied countries will launch nukes and then all countries cease to exist, which means it would be pointless to launch them and every country knows this. Mutually Assured Destruction(MAD) was coined after WW2 when other countries got nukes. No country/person/political party/radical group would achieve anything from launching nukes.
OT: Asteroid or the Sun blowing up. Sun blowing up will happen one day, no way to stop it, but a large asteroid could wipe out life as we know it, but after a few million years life would return, just like before.
OT: Asteroid or the Sun blowing up. Sun blowing up will happen one day, no way to stop it, but a large asteroid could wipe out life as we know it, but after a few million years life would return, just like before.
Personally I think it will be the Beardpocalypse... Beards will become sentient, detach from the faces of those with beards and march! We're doomed I tells ya! DOOMED!
I don't think nuclear war is all that likely, unless the world governments all decide that fucking SUICIDE it the best way to resolve any disagreements.
Alien apocalypse is least likely of all, the likeliness of a world other than ours that can sustain life is very slim, this scenario is made even more slim with the odds of life actually existing on this world long enough to develop society, space travel and all in the same timespan as our existence (these civilizations could already have existed or still need to exist at some point) and of course without going extinct themselves in the process before learning of us (also a slim chance of that), deciding to kill us (come on, why bother?) and finally reaching us from the lolwtfbbq long distances they'd have to travel.
The zombie apocalypse...oh please it is the easiest apocalypse to deal with of all. As long as it isn't the airborne-virus animalistic zombie apocalypse where they WON'T all be walking braindead fleshbags getting picked off by predators or walking off bridges.
From what I have seen of modern technology I have little fear of an AI demanding our destruction, anyone read the story of google's AI that was set loose on the internet? and within microseconds immediately began to look for one thing...adorable cat videos.
A virus apocalypse I can see killing allot of people but I am sure we would get infected areas quarantined fast enough to prevent spread.
From what I have read of all the ways space seems to be deliberately trying to kill us on a daily basis I'd say an asteroid is most likely to kill us, or the sun dying, or any other space-related incident (that isn't aliens).
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I bet NO ONE would see an apocalypse caused by that coming.
Wait, it could work like in The day after tomorrow...shit
Alien apocalypse is least likely of all, the likeliness of a world other than ours that can sustain life is very slim, this scenario is made even more slim with the odds of life actually existing on this world long enough to develop society, space travel and all in the same timespan as our existence (these civilizations could already have existed or still need to exist at some point) and of course without going extinct themselves in the process before learning of us (also a slim chance of that), deciding to kill us (come on, why bother?) and finally reaching us from the lolwtfbbq long distances they'd have to travel.
The zombie apocalypse...oh please it is the easiest apocalypse to deal with of all. As long as it isn't the airborne-virus animalistic zombie apocalypse where they WON'T all be walking braindead fleshbags getting picked off by predators or walking off bridges.
From what I have seen of modern technology I have little fear of an AI demanding our destruction, anyone read the story of google's AI that was set loose on the internet? and within microseconds immediately began to look for one thing...adorable cat videos.
A virus apocalypse I can see killing allot of people but I am sure we would get infected areas quarantined fast enough to prevent spread.
From what I have read of all the ways space seems to be deliberately trying to kill us on a daily basis I'd say an asteroid is most likely to kill us, or the sun dying, or any other space-related incident (that isn't aliens).
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I bet NO ONE would see an apocalypse caused by that coming.
Wait, it could work like in The day after tomorrow...shit
The two most likely scenarios are not on this list. Economic crash, which gets less likely every day, but is still a very real possibility. And the most likely is something that has actually happened before. A large solar flare hitting earth causes nearly global EMP effects. In 1859 one such flare happened and hit earth, it was so large it was visible to the naked eye and it was how we discovered solar flares. It also shut down 70% of the planet's telegraph lines, setting many of them on fire.
If that same flare hit today, 70% of the planets power grid would go down, the transformers would be destroyed. There is a 12% chance that a flare of similar size will hit earth in the next decade.
Such an event would be catastrophic, crippling our already limited abilities to repair the grid. Long before any such repair would take place, chaos would rein supreme.
If that same flare hit today, 70% of the planets power grid would go down, the transformers would be destroyed. There is a 12% chance that a flare of similar size will hit earth in the next decade.
Such an event would be catastrophic, crippling our already limited abilities to repair the grid. Long before any such repair would take place, chaos would rein supreme.