Poll: Most Likely End Of World Scenario

[Starik20X6]

My vote is on Viral or Technological, whichever gets to us first.

If it's viral, it will be from the overuse of antibiotics and such creating a nigh-unkillable pathogen that spreads fast and kills quickly. Bonus points if the virus causes zombification.

If it's technological, it won't be a robot uprising or anything like that, it'll be something like a massive solar flare crippling all the technology we depend upon. We'll all just wake up one day and nothing will turn on. Commence riots and mass panic.

 

[M0rp43vs]

Neo-Fascist takeover by sex-crazed porpoises. We underestimated their numbers. We underestimated their genius, their engineering corpus, their planning.
They know their time has come now that Steve Irwin is no longer here to protect us.

Seriously:
Probably mass-disease or biological warfare.
Strife in the Middle East boils over due to the collapse of the local water table.

Oh, please. We know that once things go pear shaped, the dolphins will leg it(Ok, maybe fin it) into outer space while thanking us for all the fish.

OT: That's because if games have taught me anything, it's that terrorists and the Russians are running off with nukes stolen from Uncle Same all the time so I picked nuclear.

But what I'm hoping(ok, strong word but you know what I mean) for is Cthullu and Godzilla rising from the sea and duking it out. Eat your heart out film 2012, the real end of the world will be more spectacular than your shitfest

 

[xplosive59]

Something to do with particles being unhappy like in the godawful 2012 film. Or The Third Impact, both seem like likely options.


Most likely a Nuclear War with the rest of the population to be killed off by disease and famine.

 

[John Hagg]

A messianic cult obtaining and using apocalyptic weapons.

 

[everythingbeeps]

Nuclear war.

Now, I absolutely agree with Esotera though: it's gonna be a gradual decline for a while as the economy collapses and starvation rises.

But I think before we all just fade away in that scenario, someone's gonna snap and start nuking the place.

 

[RagTagBand]

Wait, are we talking about the WORLD coming to an end, or the Human race coming to an end, or Life coming to an end?

Because those are very different scenario's that require different "End game" situations.

None of the above, For example, would destroy planet earth, nor would they likely end all life on earth. But they are fairly good for the end of humans...but humans are not "The world".

 

[xshadowscreamx]

first a killer virus is released...then the UN drop a nuclear bomb on location. (but before that )the country of said location says f#Wk you and launch nukes at every other country.

 

[XMark]

Technological apocalypse, definitely. Either an accidental nanotech "Gray Goo" scenario, or intelligent robots exterminating all meatbags.

 

[Terminate421]

I say virus based on the Zombieland or I Am Legend method

 

[The Towel Boy]

Today's countries can't stay out of each others buisness and eventually someone will get pissed off and....BOOM, either a nuclear fallout or a viral apocalypse

 

[Xerxesrogue]

Political apocalypse

Hands down

I think a quick calculation will leave Alien, and Zombie out of the question. I know you want it to be that way, sorry to disappoint you, but it isn't going to. It's like saying I will wake up to a disco party in my bedroom tomorrow. It's not ENTIRELY impossible, but I can safely say, I'm not going to.

 

[s0p0g]

blah

Uncle sam:Give us water/oil/food!
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.

yep, something along that.
also, yeah, your avatar fits the questin exceptionally well

dog days... i hear ya, captcha, i hear ya

 

[Womplord]

Viruses deadly enough to wipe people out very fast is not possible, because whenever a virus like that exists it always kills people too fast and can't spread. Technology rising up against us is just stupid. I don't think humans are stupid enough to create a nuclear apocalypse. So I guess asteroid? I mean, it's happened before. Hopefully we find technology to prevent that soon enough. Maybe we already can.

 

[Darks63]

No solar flares baking the earth like in knowing? I'm disappoint or the whatevers in 2012 that caused the world to basically explode.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Most likely? Probably nuclear. Coolest? Technological definitely!

 

[Jamieson 90]

Either Nuclear or Technology.

 

[winginson]

An extinction level asteroid impact is a question of when it happens not if. Although I assume you don't really care if it happens 500,000 years into the future.

Nuclear war could easily kill almost everything on earth, but I don't think full-scale nuclear war is that likely anymore.

However a viral or bacterial apocalyspe is fairly likely. They are slowly evolving resistance to most forms of treatment, they can share genetic information creating a hybrid of 2 different types and the technology allowing studying and manipulation of genes are becoming ever more available.

 

[Cannibal Johnson]

In my opinion its gonna be missiles or nukes. The scenario would be that a religious zealot who wants Armageddon so he (or she) decides to destroy everything in gods name. Lets face it. Look at how the world is today, this scenario is very likely.

 

[NikkieM]

Based on the options in the poll, I'd say someone's imagination is working overtime...still it's a fun poll. That said, I'd say none of the above, none of those scenarios in the poll are very likely.