Why the world won't end in your life time.

[JLML]

Disscusion Value?

This is just a well put together rant

OT: Yes, We will not see the end of days, We all just over react, The world WILL end, however, In Billions of yeasrs when the Sun Stops burning and it does super Nova and takes us with it.

Our sun can't supernova, way too small. It'll expand drastically in about 5 billion years though as it turns into a red giant, and swallow up Earth(kinda).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Life_cycle


The end of the world will probably come from the inevitable heat-death of the universe, and I have no idea when this will be. Probably several million trillion years down the line. Entropy's a *****.

Dude, dude... Not several million trillion years... Much, MUCH more if you ask me. Or maybe just a few more years, since when I've perfected my technique for creating several versions of the super tengen toppa gurren lagann I will probably accidentally destroy everything in this universe. =P

 

[The Afrodactyl]

In my eyes, our planet is a golf ball on some giant alien golf course.

And we're about to be sliced into the local water feature.

 

[dark707]

Disscusion Value?

This is just a well put together rant

OT: Yes, We will not see the end of days, We all just over react, The world WILL end, however, In Billions of yeasrs when the Sun Stops burning and it does super Nova and takes us with it.

Our sun can't supernova, way too small. It'll expand drastically in about 5 billion years though as it turns into a red giant, and swallow up Earth(kinda).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Life_cycle

The end of the world will probably come from the inevitable heat-death of the universe, and I have no idea when this will be. Probably several million trillion years down the line. Entropy's a *****.

Ah, glad I am not the only one that noticed that. Also, the age of the Universe depends of on the mass of it. If it has too much mass, it will collapse in on itself, but if it is too little mass, it will just keep on going, to the heat death of the Universe. I still don't think that the heat death would take millions of trillions of years. After all, the universe has only been going for 14 thousand million years.

 

[oxiclean]

People who call doomsday at the turn of the millennium remind me of people on 4chan freaking out over gets.

gets are serious business.

OT: people like to be alarmist over EVERYTHING. They must feel that by warning the world of its imminent destruction, they are making themselves better or more important than everyone else.


it's ridiculous. Most of the people that agree with things such as the Maya calendar thing barely understand it. those that actually know about the maya culture and their calander system know how wrong the alarmists are.

 

[Kortney]

Another wrong hypothesis is that there would be a global war in our life time. I'd bet a lot of money on that never happening for a good few years. Would be economic suicide.

 

[Pariah87]

I don't think we'll see the end of THE world, as in the planet, but it's possible we will see the end of OUR world. By that I mean the way the world is now.

19 years ago the USSR was dissolved. People born in say, 1930 would have known the USSR their entire lives, only for it to all change 60 years later. 100 Years ago us Brits still controlled an Empire. So the world I know, the world we live in, will of course cease to exist in a relatively short amount of time, which is quite scary when you think about it.

 

[eruwenfuin]

because those doomsday people can't calculate.

Of course it all depends on how you interpret the word world and what particular philosophical ideas you connect to it. I mean technically speaking I will see the end of my world, being the world interpreted and felt/seen etc. by me, but then again that cannot really be said to happen in my "lifetime" seeing as how it will coincide with the end of said lifetime. And if that is the case then technically nobody will see the world end in their life time, seeing as how when the world ends everybody's lifetime also ends. Rather abruptly I'd imagine, but that depends on the question of what the world ending exactly entails....

Well, unless you leave the planet and see it blow up.

Well yes, that's option B .

 

[Jack_Uzi]

That's kind of an odd question. If the world would end, I would die. If it doesn't I will remain here till I die..

OT: We should stop living in fear of all the posible things that COULD happen. It would make it easier on your mind to do so.

 

[tomtom94]

The end of the world scenario is combined with the Hell scenario to scare people into good behaviour.
(ie "If you don't beg for forgiveness it will be too late and you will spend an eternity in hell!")
Except nowadays a lot more people are realising that a sudden completely unpredicted end of the world, with all the scientific tech we have, would make no fucking sense.

 

[DarkDain]

Of course it will come in our lifetime, dont you remember how close we are to immortality through medicine and nanotechnology? There logically in our immortal life times, we'll see the end u.u

 

[Daxus13]

Just to elaborate OP's initial points for people who are unaware of the background arguments. Rapture in is current sense is a 19th century invention so that's the quickest way to refute anyone who brings that argument to the door. And the Mayan thing is refutable as a shift to a new star sign, which is Aquarius if I remember correctly.

In any event humans/hominids has survived one of the most radical and devastating climate changes, albeit short term changes, before. The Toba EE, some 75KBP, left approximately 1000 breeding pairs of Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Toba was basically a super volcano that caused a volcanic winter that lasted 6-10 years, which was proven as a result of ice core's and isotope analysis of the ice made by heavy water.

Humanity regardless of EE's will adapt. Until the sun goes crazy and kills us all

 

[Edorf]

Well, when Paul started to go around teaching heathens about Christianity (that was Paul, right?) the Christians thought the world would end in 200 years or so. (I cant remember where I read/heard that, but I'll try to find it again )

 

[Zajber]

My opinion is that aslong as I'm alive, there's way to much awesome for the world to end.

No, but seriously. It will probably end because of some massive asteriod, humanity itself could never be able to destroy the entire population. Definately something cosmic, that's for sure.

 

[Julianking93]

i had a girlfriend who was like "I'm moving home after college, I have to spend as much time as I can with my family before 2012." and I dumped her cause thats the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard.

She was joking right?

OT, the reason it won't end is because every generation before us has said it will end soon. They're always fucking wrong. What makes this one special?

Oh, the Bible says that there will be an increase in the Atheist population before the end times so that must mean Jesus is coming in 2012!


Yyyyyeaahhh, but that's been going on for the last 500 years. What about all the times in other countries where they had a country wide rule that you had to be atheist? Does that not count too?

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

However, to put it bluntly, we are not going to witness the end in our life times.

Not really the greatest of arguments is it. Trying to disprove 3 conspiracies.

1. 2012 being the "end of days" is not true:

True, but that doesn't mean it can't happen.

2. As a rule of thumb, doom's day prophecies are wrong in general:

Hell's teeth, this sounds like Freud's Denial theory.
If they were true, we'd be dead, so we wouldn't have them.

3. Every generation has thought of them selves as the "last" generation:

True again, but one of them will be right.

50 years time and we're out of oil. Want to guess what happens then to all the transport, food, technology, armies, weapons, plastics that rely on it?

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

However, to put it bluntly, we are not going to witness the end in our life times.

Not really the greatest of arguments is it. Trying to disprove 3 conspiracies.

1. 2012 being the "end of days" is not true:

True, but that doesn't mean it can't happen.

2. As a rule of thumb, doom's day prophecies are wrong in general:

Hell's teeth, this sounds like Freud's Denial theory.
If they were true, we'd be dead, so we wouldn't have them.

3. Every generation has thought of them selves as the "last" generation:

True again, but one of them will be right.

50 years time and we're out of oil. Want to guess what happens then to all the transport, food, technology, armies, weapons, plastics that rely on it?

1. But they really is no real reason for it to happen.

2. As that might be true, how do we really know what the future will hold? If time is linear or if every possiblity breaks the universe so every possiblity happened in a different universe (in one universe you rolled a 6 and another you rolled snake eyes), then it would be physcally impossible to see into the future.

3. Yes again, but again, what makes us that generation?

Who knows what developements in other energy sources could happen in the next 50 years? I don't think we even can imagen what they will come up with.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Who knows what developements in other energy sources could happen in the next 50 years? I don't think we even can imagen what they will come up with.

Fair enough, but it's a bit of an overgeneralisation to say it CAN'T happen, just that it's not gonna be for that reason.