View Full Version : How do you think the world will end?
It will happen, maybe in 5 billion years, maybe tomorrow.
I'm not trying to be pessimistic or anything, I actually think we'll have a plan to evacuate the planet in a few hundred years time and better defense mechanisms for protection from meteors etc.
I think it'll be the sun exploding but we'll be ready for it by then.
So what do you think?
Helvete
11-21-2009, 05:47 PM
Haven't you seen 'Knowing'?
Audio.
11-21-2009, 06:19 PM
by a Death Star.
Guy Incognito
11-21-2009, 06:23 PM
by a Death Star.
:D (y)audio blows this thread and goes home.
i think we'll disappear into a black hole
YoungRemy
11-21-2009, 07:11 PM
not with a bang but a whimper.
Audio.
11-21-2009, 07:16 PM
i think we'll disappear into a black hole
in other words the universe's anus. (y)
There's no where else to go. (http://www.kxol.com.au/images/pale_blue_dot.jpg)
checkyourprez
11-21-2009, 10:16 PM
our world will end when the machines take over. im not sure when they'res will end.
Kid Presentable
11-21-2009, 11:29 PM
Long after it is my problem.
http://www.futuretimeline.net/index.htm
Kid Presentable
11-22-2009, 12:04 AM
http://www.futuretimeline.net/index.htm
Bookmarked. Thanks for this. (y)
Bookmarked. Thanks for this. (y)
your welcome.
ericlee
11-22-2009, 02:58 AM
the world will end by me holding my balls back and aiming my penis around the room singing we are the champions.
Or Give it Away.
paul jones
11-22-2009, 09:23 AM
massive fucking bees and wasps or snails
checkyourprez
11-22-2009, 11:09 AM
http://www.futuretimeline.net/index.htm
thats pretty interesting.
So what do you think?
Step away from the weed?
Step away from the weed?
Ha! I wasn't high on that. But whatever I took friday certainly did something to me (y)
b i o n i c
11-24-2009, 01:34 PM
massive fucking bees and wasps or snails.
MC Moot
11-24-2009, 02:23 PM
I'm not trying to be pessimistic or anything, I actually think we'll have a plan to evacuate the planet in a few hundred years time and better defense mechanisms for protection from meteors etc.
If you actually believe the human race has a few hundred years left,you're being far from pessimistic...
b i o n i c
11-24-2009, 02:31 PM
the world will not end. people will probably die out, but the world will be just fine
If you actually believe the human race has a few hundred years left,you're being far from pessimistic...
You think we are doomed before then?
I think in a few hundred years, what ever the equivalent of NATO and UN are - they'll have a plan to evacuate the planet in case of imminent threat for it to be destroyed. Maybe not inhabit a different world yet but enough life boats to get a good cross section of the population into space or where-ever then maybe back to earth to rebuild or a close-by planet (another dimension new galaxy maybe?)
Obviously not every1 will be saved but once the plan is in place, it can only get better.
MC Moot
11-24-2009, 02:38 PM
You think we are doomed before then?
Yes...I see nothing that would leave me to believe otherwise...
MC Moot
11-24-2009, 02:39 PM
the world will not end. people will probably die out, but the world will be just fine
http://www.worldwithoutus.com/
(y)
Yes...I see nothing that would leave me to believe otherwise...
What about mankind's ability to adapt to its environment. We've been doing it for nearly 2 million years (well Homos have). Like whatever homo was before homo-sapiens (ie us), if that makes sense?
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MC Moot
11-24-2009, 02:59 PM
What about mankind's ability to adapt to its environment. We've been doing it for nearly 2 million years (well Homos have). Like whatever homo was before homo-sapiens (ie us), if that makes sense?
gay
It's not evoloution that's the greatest indicator of our odds at continuance as a species...it's the rapid advance of technology,consumption and population within the past 2 century's that is critical...it's simply unsustainable...unless there is a massive shift in global conscience and practice,we're going the way of the Dodo...
HAL 9000
11-24-2009, 03:04 PM
heat death of universe
(y)
–entropy always wins in the end
If the question means the actual planet Earth, then here are some key dates
1.5 bn years from now – Earth too hot to support liquid water
6 bn years – Earth (potentially) swallowed by Sun as it becomes Red Giant
7 bn Sun runs out of fuel – Earth exists as a scorched lifeless lump of rock in an extended orbit around its White Dwarf ‘Sun’.
7-10 bn Earth eventually captured by the gravity of stars from Andromeda as they pass through during the Milky Way – Andromeda collision. Earth continues to exist as dark rock in a very distant orbit around an alien sun.
So as a lump of rock the planet could be around for a long time if the Sun doesn’t swallow it.
As for humanity, if we have not suffered some kind of Malthusian catastrophe in the next thousand years we will probably be in a position to inhabit other planets and moons in the solar system and maybe branch out further. This reduces the exposure of the species to single global killer events. After that, the next biggest threat is probably a near-by supernova.
I doubt an asteroid or super volcano or similar will end humanity because by the time one happens we will already have killed ourselves or ditched this rock for pastures new.
I bet on a Berserker Probe.
There's no where else to go. (http://www.kxol.com.au/images/pale_blue_dot.jpg)
:o Love that picture. Here is what the late great Carl Sagan (whose idea the photo was) said about it
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
MC Moot
11-24-2009, 03:11 PM
There's no where else to go. (http://www.kxol.com.au/images/pale_blue_dot.jpg)
You are here… (http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x265/mcmoot/werehere.jpg)
(y)
Intergalactic Highway by the vogons
the world will not end. people will probably die out, but the world will be just fine
I was just thinking about this while laying in bed. There is a high chance that babies now will live to be 150+ and maybe 200. That may mean people alive today will live to see the end of the world.
But then I thought, well yeah resources are low but if the lights went out around the world it would be horrific, probably many deaths and high crime but we would soon (and I mean within months) be running our own electricity and growing our own food. May not be life as we know it but the recent economy bust was supposed to be the end of civilization and we're still mostly unharmed. We may not plan for the future that well but as a species I think we know how to survive and adapt.
And yes camo, I am on the green right now.
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