How do you think the world will end?

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  • frozenwithsalt
    frozenwithsalt Texas Posts: 765
    Idris said:

    Well technically (from what we know) The next cosmic event to affect our world, galaxy, sun, solar system is the head-on collision between the Andromeda galaxy and (our) Milky Way galaxy.

    The Sun will (apparently) have a new location and so will our stars. What does that mean for earth/our world? Who really knows.

    Of course M33 (Triangulum galaxy) may hit our milky way first.

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    Wow. Those are beautiful images. Makes you realize how precious or insignificant we all are, depending on your point of view.
  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    Personally I think we all are both precious and insignificant. If that makes any sense!
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    Two words ... Mega Maid

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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    humans are gonna kill themselves off due to technology...

    There are people who think like the government in China thinks "there is no global warming/fuck air pollution" (if you aren't familiar China has the worst air pollution in the world) so the earth will continue to have a massive warming effect (I recently read an article about it-when I find it, I will post it). Humans will stupidly build more machines/buildings to keep cool, which will continue to contribute to warming, and eventually we will all just die off because it's too damn hot/polluted to survive.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,674
    RKCNDY said:

    humans are gonna kill themselves off due to technology...

    There are people who think like the government in China thinks "there is no global warming/fuck air pollution" (if you aren't familiar China has the worst air pollution in the world) so the earth will continue to have a massive warming effect (I recently read an article about it-when I find it, I will post it). Humans will stupidly build more machines/buildings to keep cool, which will continue to contribute to warming, and eventually we will all just die off because it's too damn hot/polluted to survive.

    Yeah, if we're talking about the end of the world as in the end of human existence on the planet then I'm guessing any of these could easily do us in:

    -Global warming (also top of my list)
    -Over-pollution of oceans
    -Nuclear radiation from either a larger Fukushima type event or nuclear war
    -Pandemic by airborne virus
    -Reversal of poles
    -Earth hit by large enough meteor to cause large mammal extinction
    -Grey Goo (a result of out-of-control nanotechnology, less likely than once predicted)
    -A.I. machine take over/extermination of human life
    -Black hole created by Haldron Collider
    -Evolve into another species
    -Alien Invasion
    -"Mega Maid" (haha- I like that one!)

    Many of those scenarios would possibly allow for small isolated groups of humans to carry on. That would be interesting.

    So many ways to worry every day about our survival... but is that how we want to spend our days? Better to do what each of us can to make the world a little better, enjoy the time we have, and be good to each other and ourselves.



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  • Sonja_S
    Sonja_S Vienna Posts: 444
    PJ_Soul said:

    frozenwithsalt said:

    PJ_Soul said:

    Giant asteroid.

    (Not kidding)


    That's a very real possibility. Like that movie Last Night. It doesn't really say it's an asteroid but that's my take on it.

    Awesome movie.
    I can't believe you mentioned that movie! It's one of my very favorite movies of all time but no one's ever heard of it! (I have a "thing" for the apocalyptic theme). So that's awesome. Let's be friends, lol. :) I actually think that the world stopped.rotating in that movie. Not an asteroid. The reason I think that is because the sun never moves. It's in the same place the whole time, beating down on them, it's noon daylight at all times. The only explanation for that is that the earth is no longer spinning. How that would end everything at a particular time I'm not clear on...... if I ever run into Don McClelland it would be the first thing I'd ask him!
    That's one of my favourite movies too. There's actually a framed poster signed by Don McKellar above my TV set. It's made out to 'Sabina's sister' because my sister sent an e-mail to the production company asking if there was any chance of buying two posters because we loved the movie when we saw it at TIFF and it would probably never be released where we live. They did her one better, had McKellar sign two when he was at the office and sent them over for free with a nice message.

    I wouldn't want to know when it's going to end though. I think the movie had some rather accurate ideas about people's behaviour in that case.
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  • FrankieG
    FrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    brianlux said:

    -Evolve into another species
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    Why have I not thought of that before... That makes perfect sense

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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,863
    here is a good site that I have read most of over the years. It hashes over many possible scenarios

    http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm
  • madtowndave
    madtowndave Minneapolis, MN Posts: 4,013
    I was without power for an hour the other night, and I thought "is this what the end of the world is like?"
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  • hedonist
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    madtowndave said:

    I was without power for an hour the other night, and I thought "is this what the end of the world is like?"

    The Amish would laugh at this ;)
  • jallard
    jallard Montreal Posts: 46
    Just like it started dude. In a gigantic hadron collider.

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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,760
    hedonist said:

    madtowndave said:

    I was without power for an hour the other night, and I thought "is this what the end of the world is like?"

    The Amish would laugh at this ;)
    I think almost everyone would laugh at this. ;)
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  • JWPearl
    JWPearl Posts: 19,893
    jallard said:

    Just like it started dude. In a gigantic hadron collider.

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    Somehow the simsons comes to mind..
  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    Idris said:

    Well technically (from what we know) The next cosmic event to affect our world, galaxy, sun, solar system is the head-on collision between the Andromeda galaxy and (our) Milky Way galaxy.

    The Sun will (apparently) have a new location and so will our stars. What does that mean for earth/our world? Who really knows.

    Of course M33 (Triangulum galaxy) may hit our milky way first.

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    Scratch that.
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    Maybe...1950 DA will do it,

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  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    frozenwithsalt said:

    With a bang or a whisper?

    I opened this thread with the full intention of responding, 'not with a bang, but with a whisper' and you done beat me to it! ;)

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,674
    hedonist said:

    madtowndave said:

    I was without power for an hour the other night, and I thought "is this what the end of the world is like?"

    The Amish would laugh at this ;)
    Ha...! (I'm half-laughing ;) )
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  • ryph raph
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    Leveled to make way for a hyperspace by - pass. :-&
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  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    ryph raph said:

    Leveled to make way for a hyperspace by - pass. :-&

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  • bluegrace
    bluegrace Posts: 2,357
    In a huge, global catastrophy where there isn't enough water.
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  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    edited August 2014
    ldent42 said:

    ryph raph said:

    Leveled to make way for a hyperspace by - pass. :-&

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    The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy ;;) right? That book had much more charms than the movie...
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