The End of the World - Your Version and Vision
 

Apocalypse.

Armageddon.

We have seen it in many flicks, read about it in several books. The Bible mentions it. Magazine articles often talk over it. TV discussions, visions, portraits, paintings...almost all of the media and fine arts have their versions of predicting the end of the world.

Which one do you think is the most viable? And how would you predict it to be?

If you have a personal vision, feel free to share it in here.

I will go first - it will come eventually in the shape of a large comet, hurtling right into the path of the Earth's orbit. Destroying everything and anything in existence around us in an instant, then slowly engulfing the entire planet in its wake.

For all the advances we have in technology and innovations, I think we will fight off plenty of pollution, tsunamis and earthquakes to eventually reach that kind of scenario. Although if we will have something to divert the path of a comet remains to be seen.

Unless the Sun turns into a black hole, and sucks us in, first.

Armageddon. I believe jesus will come again.

I truly believe that we're going to destroy ourselves with nuclear weapons while simultaneously the polar ice caps melt, flood the world, kill the polar bears, and we all die either from nuclear or UV exposure.

I'm not sure that we'll be around long enough to see the comet. Though, I figure that a comet strike is an eventuality.

Either that, or, I have to disagree with V - I think that greenhouse gasses, pollution, our combined carbon footprint will really make the planet unlivable.

I don't really see things ending spectacularly.

My expectation is that the human race will pollute/destroy/blow up the earth to the point where there is just nothing left to support life.

It seems like this is the legacy unless there is a major change in attitude. Which, naturally, I hope there iis.

I think people as a race are too intelligent and too egotistical. We won't destroy the world before it begins to destroy us but I firmly believe that a number of human beings will live because we're almost at the point where we can create artificial environments to support human life on a semi-large scale. Anyway, I'll grow old and die before any of that crap happens and the only thing that would excite me would be the undead. Some people would survive a nuclear winter, flooding of the ice caps would be devastating but it wouldn't cover all the land, the species will carry on for a long, long time. Isn't the sun supposed to reverse magnetic poles again triggering some catastrophic event in 2012?

I think it will be some kind of natural disaster or multiple ones.

or maybe we'll get sucked into the black hole or something

maybe even an alien invasion at some point

or a really bad world war

I have nightmares about the end of the world all the time it freaks me out

probably why I'm not religious a lot of stuff in the bible scares the shit out of me

a rouge asteroid two times the size of earth will bump into us and knock us out of orbit, launching whats left of us into space to freeze and suffercate in an instant.


that,.. or a giant volano.

solar flares roast the place - and THIS WILL HAPPEN -(in about 50 million years)

I take the Jesus Armageddon one. Thing is that is all a bunch of metaphores so it will be interesting to see how it all plays out when and if it does. I think it will be hugely political though based on what the bible says.

I think we can fight off a comet. But there's bound to be one that hits us eventually. May kill most life, but not all. Look at the dinosaurs.

`I think it will come in the form of a disease. A terrible, life killing pandemic, similar to the plague but on a larger scale. Probably airborn. One we can't fight in time. Bacteria are constatly evolving and adapting. Many are doing it extremely fast. Maybe it will bve a particularly mutated form of flu, or maybe the HIV virus will change to the point that it doesn't need sexual intercourse, and works faster. I don't know what it will take the form of, but I'm quite confident it will be a disease. Whether manmade or not, we couldn't stand a chance.

And it would be the most painful way to go. Equally more painful to watch loved ones and family slowly rot away and die to some incurable epidemic.

But yeah, its most certainly possible, taking facts into account.

It would be sort of a preference for us to get hit by a comet. No pain...single hit...every living thing wiped, all within the blink of an eye, in a matter of seconds. If the dinos got wiped by that, pray it happens again.

It all may happen in a sequential manner in different parts of the world...like first may be some heavy natural disasters wipe out some highly populated areas of the planet, then may be (or before the NDs) starts the life killing pandemics on some other regions as FC mentioned and finally the comet may hits to conclude the series of the end.

If humanity lives that long I'm sure we'll have found another planet capable of supporting life in the universe.

Pretty sure.

Although in 50 million years I m afraid to visualise where evolution might have taken us to. Will we be more amphibian, reptilian, simian (circle completing)...who knows.

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You mean like we reach a point where there is nothing left but to go down? And we devolve.

As for the comet, it wouldn't be that fast. The meteorite hit Earth, killed dinosaurs nearby (That is relative to the size of the impact). The rest, unfortunately, had a worse way to go.

The ash in the sky blocked out the sun, causing many to freeze to death. Eventually, much of the plant life died and caused the herbivores to starve to death. Due to that, the food chain was pretty much ripped to shreds and the carnivores didn't last too long.

But one thing that always interested me about that, was that why did so much of the sea die out? Sharks lived. Why so few others? Surely the factors that killed the other creatures would have only a minute effect on them. And Crocodiles. They lived, and most live in rivers, eating land animals. When they died, why didn't the crocodiles starve?

you made me laugh - you funny!

That is indeed a million-dollar question.

Some of the species from the Triassic and Jurassic period survived the comet holocaust. Let's hope technology evolves into such a stage that we can protect ourselves from another one of those.

About devolution, however, I am open to opinions.

monkey uprising! (opps - i'm not supposed to reveal our secret plans - oh damn i did it again)

Me and Elvis will round up all the simians in cages and execute em all.

No monkeys, no apes, no chimps, no orangutans, no gorillas...ergo, no Planet of the Apes.

I think we're all going to nuke each other.

untill we devolve.

That is actually a very scary thought, come to think of it.

There would not be any worse ending to our civilisation and life on Earth than this.


Everything goes in a circle. So its very much possible.

Think about it: Russia's already threatening us, even with a new president; North Korea won't give up their nukes, the Middle East hates us. I think we're toast.

It is a pretty strong possibility, I admit.

anti-simianite

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