How do you think the world ends???
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Evolution.
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Simple... with a 'd'
I think we have a winner!
When someone joins my pet forum.
No Really it'll be when/if Famine Dies
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Who's Famine? I haven't heard of him before...
...Unless you mean Famine.
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I fear the world will end in a religious battle. It will consume the nations, and destroy the economy. Plunging the world into chaos. Losing the economy and money drops the ability of nations to negotiate and relate into the bucket. Soon all the world turns to a barter system and descends back to a rape and pillage atmoshpere.
At which point anything goes. Then comes the struggle of Nations to retain what they believe is safety.
The chaos of "I'm right, you're not" begins. At which point one nation will attack with nuclear weapons and start the tic-tac-toe game of explosions.
The world will be scarred and destroyed. Hunter/Gatherer scenario until the blackened skies cause the vegetation to disappear and the human race will succumb to madness.
At which point anything goes. Then comes the struggle of Nations to retain what they believe is safety.
The chaos of "I'm right, you're not" begins. At which point one nation will attack with nuclear weapons and start the tic-tac-toe game of explosions.
The world will be scarred and destroyed. Hunter/Gatherer scenario until the blackened skies cause the vegetation to disappear and the human race will succumb to madness.
Evolution.
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DA, did you miss your last appointment with the shrink? o_o
Just kidding. But I do hope that you don't think of those kinds of things on a daily basis.
Just kidding. But I do hope that you don't think of those kinds of things on a daily basis.
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That is the cleaned up version. I was going to continue in detail, but threw together a few good thoughts and posted it.DA, did you miss your last appointment with the shrink? o_o
Anyone wonder why I didn't want Kids?
And if you think my outlook is bleak, I'd like to see a serious reply from Famine.
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Saying that, could there be any serious answer to this question that wouldn't be bleak?
Yes.
Christians will be raptured before all fighting.
Russia will unite with the islamist world, and try to destroy Israel. God will be on Israel's side, and so Russia and the evil in the Middle East will be destroyed.
Afterwards, the EU declares a one-world-order, and then the EU and China begin to fight.
Then, in the middle of the fighting, God comes back to Earth, destroys both of them, all evil is rid of Earth, there is the 1000 years of peace, etc.
And that's how I think the world how it is known will end.
But if by "serious", you mean non-religious, then, well, I don't know. My guess is this:
Life, war, peace, etc goes on at Earth as normal. But in a galaxy, far, far away, the Death Star is made, it goes over to our galaxy and blows Earth up. The end.
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Back in the real world, humanity's destruction will come about in the form of a honking great asteroid inside the next hundred thousand years. The Earth itself will be destroyed during the sun's expansion phase into a red giant in a little over 5 billion years - though we'll be resembling Mercury for some millions of years before that, as the magnetosphere is overwhelmed by solar radiation, the atmosphere is stripped, the oceans boil, the surface melts and finally the whole planet is torn apart by tidal forces. The sun will expand in size until it reaches a point where the surface is where the Earth used to orbit - the Earth may or may not be swallowed by the Sun, as the Sun will lose mass and push the Earth's orbit further out, but it's pretty academic.
The Sun will then throw off its outer layers and become a white dwarf - a body with about the same mass as the Sun currently has, but with a diameter about the same as the Earth's. This will make survival elsewhere in the solar system near to impossible, as there will be no heating effect from the Sun (though the centre of mass will be relatively unchanged, so the orbits of the outer planets will be fine).
But of course all of this is nearly irrelevant, as in 3-4 billion years the Andromeda Galaxy, which is approaching the Milky Way at 300km/s, will collide with us and, though it's not highly likely that any star or other body will directly impact any other star or other body, the gravitational effects will be devastating. If the Solar System isn't torn apart by influence from other, passing stars, it may be ejected completely from the Milky Way. Worse still, both the Milky Way and Andromeda have Supermassive Black Holes at their centres, and I'm not even going to touch that one with a 20 foot pole. These suckers will eventually merge and then all bets are off (black hole convergence confuses me, for a start).
That about wraps it up for humanity (bar some utter, utter miracle where we stop arsing around with worrying about fossil fuels and religion and get the hell off this smeggy little marble), the Earth and the Solar System. The Universe itself... A little more odd and complex.
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Someone keeps the world as hostage demanding all kinds of things, and because no-one wants to negotiate, one Von Neumann Machine is set free to devour our lovely planet.
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