Not if we nuke it enough.MelasZepheos said:The world is not dying.
This is a huge amount of human arrogance. The world is not going to die just because we leave, or even if we nuke it into pieces. Life rebuilds itself from the tiniest bacteria after all. As long as even one bacteria survived, within several billion or trillion years life would return, and no matter what the greatest efforts of mankind to destroy it, there will always be life.
We're arrogant, we're stupid, we made too much too fast, and now the current generation are reaping our ancestors' mistakes, and yet we still can't seem to stop making them, or greater ones.
Humans can't destroy the world, only ourselves.
Meteors are tiny crumbs of cometary debris which burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere.TheBluesader said:a meteor impact.
You watch Mega Disasters don't you?TheBluesader said:A natural disaster will probably wipe us out. A plague, a super-volcano, or a meteor impact.
When? Some time in the next decade. Before the end of the century, at any rate.
Because.
"Measuring the exact rate is difficult, but for a galaxy of approximately the same size as the Milky Way, the expected rate (for long GRBs) is about one burst every 100,000 to 1,000,000 years.Only a few percent of these would be beamed towards Earth."curlycrouton said:
An asteroid colliding with Earth.haruvister said:Meteors are tiny crumbs of cometary debris which burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere.TheBluesader said:a meteor impact.
/pedantry off
Long wait then.Slick Samurai said:"Measuring the exact rate is difficult, but for a galaxy of approximately the same size as the Milky Way, the expected rate (for long GRBs) is about one burst every 100,000 to 1,000,000 years.Only a few percent of these would be beamed towards Earth."curlycrouton said:
That's what the link to the wiki said, so apparently the chances of said GRB happening are extremely slim. Probably not for another billion years.