How do you think the world ends???

As I see it, there's 2 options :

  • This guy gets taken seriously !...
  • The cleaning lady pulls the plug because she needs power for her vacuum cleaner - incidentally while they're changing batteries in the UPS...


Number 2 is by far the most likely to happen...
 
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.

That was called the Dark Ages.
 
Ugh.

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I think a chain reaction somehow started by me will begin the end of the world. It will then lead to me trying to stop it like a band aid for a gaping wound, which will only cause it start happening faster.
 
I think that GTP will overload on double posts.

Duke will then get angry and destroy the world accordingly.
 
Whichever way we come to see the end of the world as we know it, atleast we can rest assured that Michael Stipe will feel fine about it... :irked:
 
World will be better place if Ahnuld will be president.
World will die after Bush declares that everyone outside US borders is a potential terrorist and pushes the big red button.
World will end when some country with nuclear weapons decides to use Windows as the tactical computers OS.
Wold would be better place if there would be no religions.
 
maybe some sort of supervirus
or supernova (the sun)
or god will decided to blow us up and start again

id like you all to remember:

when you die, we will be buried in the ground, and when the sun finally pops it's clogs, the earth will go with it, the solar system will be knakered, we will essentially be stardust after that (everyone and everything on earth) and everything will start again. the debris will drift off and in a few million years, will create another solar system somehwere else.
 
Perhaps when Air is percieved as a WMD?

Maybe not.

By World ends do you mean...

1. Quite literally the world ending.
or
2. The world ending for Humans.

I say the latter because we wouldn't know if the first had happened when the 2nd was at that stage.

Just to confuse matters.

In any case, Asteroid impact on either an ocean or one of the poles.
 
Maybe that's how the world ends 💡 This thread dies, the world gets sad because it's thread has been forgotten & then blows itself up!...Or the sun explodes, but by then we'll be living on newly discovered planets with an artificial sun prepared for the disaster.
 
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by then we'll be living on newly discovered planets
I doubt that will ever happen - for a couple of reasons.

1) The distance to even the nearest extra-solar planets is so immense that, with our present technology, it would take hundreds of thousands of years just to reach the nearest planets. Of course, there are likely many thousands of Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone, but most, if not all, are likely to be forever beyond our physical reach.

2) If, by some cosmic good fortune, a planet capable of sustaining human life was found within our 'range' i.e. if we develop spacecraft capable of 1/2 light speed, and the planet was within say 50 light years distance (note that our galaxy is some 100,000 light years across), then we'd have an extra problem to think about - if another planet is capable of sustaining life such as that found on Earth, the chances are that it will already be inhabited as abundantly and with the sort of diversity as here on Earth - the small, privileged elite who were able to pay for a berth on the interstellar escape ship (probably only the super-rich, the super-powerful, and the most recent winner of Big Brother) would find themselves as an alien force, presumably unannounced, and almost certainly unwelcome. If they landed on an Earth-like world before the dawn of intelligent civilisation, they might have to contend with a Jurassic Park-style nightmare scenario of terrible, vicious carnivorous lizards who hunt in packs and would have human beings for breakfast without even batting an eye-lid... if we showed up to find a highly advanced civilisation already present, we could forget about taking over the planet and saving the human race... either way, it would be extremely difficult for humankind to get the necessary foothold unless we sent vast numbers of people - unfortunately, that would require a level of international cooperation and understanding that the human race is barely capable of now, let alone in 200 years time when wars will rage on this planet over increasingly rare natural resources....
 
I doubt that will ever happen - for a couple of reasons.

1) The distance to even the nearest extra-solar planets is so immense that, with our present technology, it would take hundreds of thousands of years just to reach the nearest planets. Of course, there are likely many thousands of Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone, but most, if not all, are likely to be forever beyond our physical reach.

2) If, by some cosmic good fortune, a planet capable of sustaining human life was found within our 'range' i.e. if we develop spacecraft capable of 1/2 light speed, and the planet was within say 50 light years distance (note that our galaxy is some 100,000 light years across), then we'd have an extra problem to think about - if another planet is capable of sustaining life such as that found on Earth, the chances are that it will already be inhabited as abundantly and with the sort of diversity as here on Earth - the small, privileged elite who were able to pay for a berth on the interstellar escape ship (probably only the super-rich, the super-powerful, and the most recent winner of Big Brother) would find themselves as an alien force, presumably unannounced, and almost certainly unwelcome. If they landed on an Earth-like world before the dawn of intelligent civilisation, they might have to contend with a Jurassic Park-style nightmare scenario of terrible, vicious carnivorous lizards who hunt in packs and would have human beings for breakfast without even batting an eye-lid... if we showed up to find a highly advanced civilisation already present, we could forget about taking over the planet and saving the human race... either way, it would be extremely difficult for humankind to get the necessary foothold unless we sent vast numbers of people - unfortunately, that would require a level of international cooperation and understanding that the human race is barely capable of now, let alone in 200 years time when wars will rage on this planet over increasingly rare natural resources....

That is wrong.



You said "civilisation" when it's "civilization" :lol:


Ok I'll stop now.




Ciao!
 
That is wrong. You said "civilisation" when it's "civilization" :lol:
Not in the UK, it isn't... we commonly spell words with -ise rather than -ize. And according to Wiki, "The word 'civilisation' comes from the Latin word for townsman or citizen, civis, and its adjectival form, civilis.", but hey, let's not split hairs here ;)
 
It needn't end if we acquire a Stargate, this is what archeologists have been searching Egypt for all this time.

So in the event of us leaving through said stargate, we will be in a new planet with a different expiry date to the previous, and then we are free to start pollutin'!!!!
 
Rather than the Stargate idea, I feel a more plausible potential future outcome (as has been mentioned before) is the concept of transferring our mental capabilities into electronic form - ridding the mind of the constraints of being a part of a human body with a finite life time. Artilects ('artificial intellects' - massively powerful super-computers capable of conscious though) will probably assume that role sooner or later - such that 'consciousness' is no longer the sole preserve of 'living' entities. In this regard, our 'personalities' could easily be digitised and transmitted from artilect to artilect, at the speed of light, from planet to planet, star to star, without any bounds in space or in time.
 
All we need is Frank Whittle Jr, Jr, Jr, Jr, Jr, Jr...etc to invent the Hyperdrive or Warp Engine and we are all set.
 
The world will end if Hilary(SP) Clinton becomes the next President of USA...
 
Mankind will first kill itself off before we see the last day of Earth. The world won't end. All of those living on it will eventually cease to exist. World Wars will eventually last longer and longer and the reluctantness of countries to use super weapons will fade. The Earth will continue to revolve around the son as a huge rock and water mass filled with radiation and other poisons we've yet to somehow generate ourselves. After another few hundred million years, it will all settle, stuff will turn green again, and we'll all see if Darwin was correct.

Yep, that's what's going to happen.
 
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