Sure, this article is written tongue-in-cheek, but...

http://www.cracked.com/article_15809_5-kick-ass-sci-fi-apocalypses-that-could-actually-happen.html?wa_user1=3&wa_user2=Science&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=recommended

...Honestly? I've always figured some disease would wipe us all out, either something natural or some result of a bioweapon experiment, getting out into the public at large. And if not that, then something involving nuclear or atom bombing or something - think along the lines of World Wars, that we'd basically just end up all blowing each other up. My third guess is something actually along the lines of the Terminator movies - I know, I know. But as much as technology is constantly worked on and improved, it doesn't seem that far-fetched to me that one day tech geniuses in a lab will make some kind of computerized technology that is *too* smart and decides we suck and wants to get rid of us.

Odd, morbid topic, I know. My mind goes to odd places at this time of night/morning .

end of....

people? ooooo... now THAT is a loaded question... in what form?... hmmmm...

any type of life on earth? solar flares... def solar bs after the magnetosphere dies because that is something that makes this planet very special... so some radiation bs

the whole planetary body with or without organics? who knows??? complete atomic collapse...?? return to singularity...?? comet knocks it into the sun....??

CM7 said:

end of....

people? ooooo... now THAT is a loaded question... in what form?... hmmmm...

any type of life on earth? solar flares... def solar bs after the magnetosphere dies because that is something that makes this planet very special... so some radiation bs

the whole planetary body with or without organics? who knows??? complete atomic collapse...?? return to singularity...?? comet knocks it into the sun....??

..I was talking strictly in the sense of all human life in its current form, ceasing to exist - the typical definition of the world ending. I know people always talk and talk about environmental factors or something happening in outer space to cause our collective death, but I've always always thought it would be something much closer to home and much simpler, basically that we'd essentially do ourselves in, in one way or another. If you really think about it, as much as humanity tinkers around with lifeforms and chemicals and computers and stuff, it's bound to blow up in our faces eventually. Curiosity kills the cat.

Jehovah god will soon destroy the present wicked system of things.The world is rapidly approaching what the bible calls har-magedon,or Armageddon.That word may make some people think of a nuclear holocaust brought about by warring nations,but Armageddon is nothing of the kind.Revelation 16:14-16 shows us Armageddon is the war of the great day of god the almighty.It is a war involving the kings of the entire inhabited earth,or the nations.Jehovahs son the appointed king will soon ride in2 battle.The outcome will be absolutly sure.Satan and his demons will be put out of commision,locked away in the abyss during the thousand year reign of Jesus Christ.Inhabitants of the new world will be taught 2 treat their fellow humans with love/respect and dignity......................U did ask.....

davetherave6767 said:

Jehovah god will soon destroy the present wicked system of things.The world is rapidly approaching what the bible calls har-magedon,or Armageddon.That word may make some people think of a nuclear holocaust brought about by warring nations,but Armageddon is nothing of the kind.Revelation 16:14-16 shows us Armageddon is the war of the great day of god the almighty.It is a war involving the kings of the entire inhabited earth,or the nations.Jehovahs son the appointed king will soon ride in2 battle.The outcome will be absolutly sure.Satan and his demons will be put out of commision,locked away in the abyss during the thousand year reign of Jesus Christ.Inhabitants of the new world will be taught 2 treat their fellow humans with love/respect and dignity......................U did ask.....

*groaning*

I should've known somebody would bring religion into this.

Don't do that shit or they'll move my thread to the Politics forum, and I don't want it there.

Eye just answered ur question......soz:blackeye:

I'm wondering if the weather will eventually do us all in. These last few years have been something like I've never seen in my lifetime. The summers are getting worse with temperatures over 100 degrees that go on for a week, drop down to 98 degrees for a few days and go right back up over 100 degrees for even more days at a time. The past few summers have been horrible. Last year was one of the worst and this year is even worse. I don't ever remember it being this hot when I was growing up and I've lived in Mississippi my entire life.

Then, we have had some crazy winters for the last few years. Snow that actually accumulates on the ground in Mississippi for two years in a row. That used to be absolutely unheard of in the past. We might get snow like that maybe once a decade. And for the past two years, we've had snow accumulated on the ground twice in one year. Something is definitely changing in the weather in the last decade.

And we're getting many more tornados than we used to have. Every year there has been tornados and sometimes they come close but never to the point that every time there is a tornado warning, you are afraid that the tornado is going to actually get you, yourself. I've had three close calls with tornados in the last year and one of them, on New Year's Eve, of all days, was very life threatening and just right up the street from me. Tornados in the winter used to be unheard of.

I'm beginning to wonder if a few decades into the future, that it might become too hot or cold for us to survive or if the weather will keep going from hot to cold so frequently that tornados and hurricanes will start popping up everywhere in multiple places causing much wider destruction.

davetherave6767 said:

Eye just answered ur question......soz:blackeye:

Yeah you did, but in a way that's risking getting the topic moved over to a section where it will promptly die off or get turned into some bullshit debate-fest.

Although it might end up getting turned into a debate over here and THEN getting moved to the Politics section. *gives you an evil look*

vainandy said:

I'm wondering if the weather will eventually do us all in. These last few years have been something like I've never seen in my lifetime. The summers are getting worse with temperatures over 100 degrees that go on for a week, drop down to 98 degrees for a few days and go right back up over 100 degrees for even more days at a time. The past few summers have been horrible. Last year was one of the worst and this year is even worse. I don't ever remember it being this hot when I was growing up and I've lived in Mississippi my entire life.

Then, we have had some crazy winters for the last few years. Snow that actually accumulates on the ground in Mississippi for two years in a row. That used to be absolutely unheard of in the past. We might get snow like that maybe once a decade. And for the past two years, we've had snow accumulated on the ground twice in one year. Something is definitely changing in the weather in the last decade.

And we're getting many more tornados than we used to have. Every year there has been tornados and sometimes they come close but never to the point that every time there is a tornado warning, you are afraid that the tornado is going to actually get you, yourself. I've had three close calls with tornados in the last year and one of them, on New Year's Eve, of all days, was very life threatening and just right up the street from me. Tornados in the winter used to be unheard of.

I'm beginning to wonder if a few decades into the future, that it might become too hot or cold for us to survive or if the weather will keep going from hot to cold so frequently that tornados and hurricanes will start popping up everywhere in multiple places causing much wider destruction.

It's weird you're saying that because a few years back I actually dreamed that the world ended because of a permanent blizzard. It just started snowing and wouldn't stop.

armpit said:

davetherave6767 said:

Eye just answered ur question......soz:blackeye:

Yeah you did, but in a way that's risking getting the topic moved over to a section where it will promptly die off or get turned into some bullshit debate-fest.

Although it might end up getting turned into a debate over here and THEN getting moved to the Politics section. *gives you an evil look*

I'm not trying to turn this into a religious debate but from what I've observed around here, and in life in general, is that both sides are so hellbent on thinking they are right, that they don't even take into consideration that they could be wrong.

Religious people seem to think they are right but where they mess up, is when they try to convince other people of it and try to make them religious also because they think they are "saving" them. And athiests seem to want to show religious people how stupid they think they are for believing in God when they think there is no evidence that he exists.

I honestly don't know why both sides can't understand that they all could be possibly wrong because none of us knows for sure. But they both throw insults at each other trying to prove their point and then it turns into a war.

That's another way the world may end. A war between the believers and non believers or even a war between people of different religions. All thinking that they are right and trying to force it on others.

Honestly, when I said what I did it wasn't a judgment either for or against religion. It was me purely trying to prevent this thread from turning into a theological debate, which tends to always happen when people start mentioning religious figures and text. Then the subject would be veering away from what the thread is actually about, and also just end up getting shit-canned over into P&R where it will REALLY get shot all to hell.

Truth be told, I consider myself Christian (although I don't really believe in or trust organized religions and refuse to attend a church), and I believe there's some truth to the Bible (although I think there's a lot of bullshit in there, too). So it's not that I'm trying to shut-up a believer.

I do think you make a valid point though - most people are so dogmatic about their personal belief system that it's entirely possible that the end of the world might be brought about because of it.

Giant ninja frogs.

armpit said:

CM7 said:

end of....

people? ooooo... now THAT is a loaded question... in what form?... hmmmm...

any type of life on earth? solar flares... def solar bs after the magnetosphere dies because that is something that makes this planet very special... so some radiation bs

the whole planetary body with or without organics? who knows??? complete atomic collapse...?? return to singularity...?? comet knocks it into the sun....??

..I was talking strictly in the sense of all human life in its current form, ceasing to exist - the typical definition of the world ending. I know people always talk and talk about environmental factors or something happening in outer space to cause our collective death, but I've always always thought it would be something much closer to home and much simpler, basically that we'd essentially do ourselves in, in one way or another. If you really think about it, as much as humanity tinkers around with lifeforms and chemicals and computers and stuff, it's bound to blow up in our faces eventually. Curiosity kills the cat.

but think of it this way, people are like a parasite on the earth, parasites usually do damage to the host unless they can form the perfect symbiosis. Often parasitic infestations will destroy the host, but hardly ever does it cure itself. let's say you've got a mold problem somewhere. You have to get rid of the mold and contain because the spores will be flying around everywhere and spreading.... those spores are like us. we started off as a small lifeform and now we have covered the planet almost and we have taken to the skies and went to outer space and we are basically trying to spread not too unlike mold spores. When you have mold, all kinds of stuff can get ruined, it can be nasty mold or it can be benign mold.... but I have never seen it completely clean itself up.

nowm don't get me.... i think mankind can do a hell of a lot of damage within his own "nest"... but unless he destroys the planet before he can find anotehr special planet, there will be someone left to spread. in all our wars and crap, someone will most likely be left standing. diseases that form within our own systems are more than likely going to be so intimately connected to our systems... our species.... there will naturally be some weakness within it, just as we have weakness.... and we also have immunity and resistance and so the diseases have their resistances and it may take a huge toll on mankind, but I think with the natural cycles in life, an answer/a solution/ a complete resistance will be borne out neccesity just like immunity to smallpox saved us from extinction.

I think to be a global human species annhiliator, it will almost have to be some outside force or a mistake of ours that interferes with systems much larger than us.... such as if we screw around with the environment enough to weaken the magnetosphere. hat could potentially happen and that would be a a doozy. The magnetosphere is extremely important and we could probably fuck it up if we don't watch it.

even if there were nuclear bombs going off on all corners of the globe and pestilence was rampant.... i can still imagine someone in some dark crevice of this moist fertile earth giving the drama the slip.... but trying to live on a planet that has been raped of it's magnetoshere would basically be like trying to liveon mars and that's best case scenario because most planets are much more volitile than that.

I feel pretty certain life has already been on mars and it's a dead planet. it is just further out of the habitable zone than earth... it's already been through this way. I think it may have already been through these cycles and what's left is a burnt out rock.

I think whatever kills us will need to be drastic... I think it will come from an outside force.

....but, if all life on just the WORLD is destoyed.... that doesn't mean all humans will be gone.

for all we know there could be humans in another dimension... there *have* been claims.

that's why i was clarify what end we were exactly looking for.

Cloudbuster said:

Giant ninja frogs.

YOU HURTED MAH E-FEELINGSSSSSS!!!

*runs out crying*

I think it will be a meteor or some cosmic event

The reason why I believe this is that there are 8 billion of us right now. We are remarkably resilliant despite our physical weakness. Wars will be faught, but they've always been faught. religions will come and go (sure we can name 5 truly huge religions, but they can't last forever) and so will the conflicts that arise from them.

And even if we die as physical beings, technology will allow us to live on essentially as machines, which can last forever.

It will be a comet hitting the earth or a meteor hitting the earth that takes us out. It's happened many times before, it's proven to happen again. We have placed so little interest in pursuing strategies to deflect objects from us that it will eventually happen.

I don't think humanity or mankind has only a few decades or centuries to go. I think we will be here millions of years from now in various evolved forms, but we'll still be here.

A comet or astroid could definitely produce something that is considered extinction.... and I agree that it has happened and is most likely what took out the dinos.

...but even though we say "dinosaurs are extinct" we know that not all species were killed off... We just don't call them dinosaurs anymore because they adapted across the end of an age and would be changed forever. If nothing had survived, we wouldn't be here.

I think with an impact like that.... at this point with our underground bases, we might be able to survive a comet or astroid unless it took out the moon.. then it would just be a matter of time until the atmosphere shit the bed.

A likely threat of extinction? Oh HELL yes!... as you say, history shows we are just a sitting duck in space. 100% extinction?.... maybe I'm wrong but I think we could possibly cling to it.

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CM7 said:

A comet or astroid could definitely produce something that is considered extinction.... and I agree that it has happened and is most likely what took out the dinos.

...but even though we say "dinosaurs are extinct" we know that not all species were killed off... We just don't call them dinosaurs anymore because they adapted across the end of an age and would be changed forever. If nothing had survived, we wouldn't be here.

I think with an impact like that.... at this point with our underground bases, we might be able to survive a comet or astroid unless it took out the moon.. then it would just be a matter of time until the atmosphere shit the bed.

A likely threat of extinction? Oh HELL yes!... as you say, history shows we are just a sitting duck in space. 100% extinction?.... maybe I'm wrong but I think we could possibly cling to it.

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True.

Although the earth is going to last another 5+ billion years, life on it is only has a few hundred million left before the increasing rays of the sun start to make life inhospitable here.

But within just a few thousand years, we will have colonized other planets and possibly systems. Unless of course Fermi's Paradox applies to us as well, which is more than possible.

the end of humanity or the end of the earth?

Cloudbuster said:

Giant ninja frogs.

That's Hot !

Machaela said:

Cloudbuster said:

Giant ninja frogs.

That's Hot !

You're a freak.

imago said:

CM7 said:

A comet or astroid could definitely produce something that is considered extinction.... and I agree that it has happened and is most likely what took out the dinos.

...but even though we say "dinosaurs are extinct" we know that not all species were killed off... We just don't call them dinosaurs anymore because they adapted across the end of an age and would be changed forever. If nothing had survived, we wouldn't be here.

I think with an impact like that.... at this point with our underground bases, we might be able to survive a comet or astroid unless it took out the moon.. then it would just be a matter of time until the atmosphere shit the bed.

A likely threat of extinction? Oh HELL yes!... as you say, history shows we are just a sitting duck in space. 100% extinction?.... maybe I'm wrong but I think we could possibly cling to it.

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True.

Although the earth is going to last another 5+ billion years, life on it is only has a few hundred million left before the increasing rays of the sun start to make life inhospitable here.

But within just a few thousand years, we will have colonized other planets and possibly systems. Unless of course Fermi's Paradox applies to us as well, which is more than possible.

Ah, well.... I can only go so far with that one and here's why.

ok... how should I try to explain this without you thinking I'm just being a complete troll.

ok... i'll just spit it out.... I've met a "grey"

*ahem*....NOW then...

was he from outer space? Don't know. Some say he is from another dimension. Some say he is from the future. Some say he is from Zeta Reticulli. Some say he is from below the surface of the earth. Where is he from? Haven't got the full story on that and am not expecting to be told that full story any time soon but who knows?

Anywho....

What I think about the situation is that regardless, I'm almost certain he would somehow qualify in one way or another....and rumor has it that this is "known" in certain circles and all sorts of crap has been witnessed by many.... It's hard for me to even give that paradox a thought.

That in itself doesn't mean we will again get off the planet because let's say he crash landed and died and he was the last of his kind and now it's a moot point.... and it certainly doesn't mean that we will be able to zip across the universe in good time to find another "earth"

Basically what I'm saying is that perhaps we will figure something out or just flat out get lucky because I think the universe holds more mystery than we could possibly imagine. I mention him because it certainly makes me wonder about panspermia and all that. I mean you could just look at science or you could also throw faith claims in there such as the bible's take that god made a garden here... and that he could somehow do it elsewhere.

....but in trying to explain my thoughts on the bible it ocurred to me that if you believe that particular book, there is your answer right there. If we were all to get new bodies and have everlasting life, would we no longer be human? If not.... then perhaps it will be as prophecy states and god's going to come clean house.... OR.... if we are changed by God and you still want to saywe are human and still believe the bible.... your answer is therefore "never".... because God gave us eternal life.

That's the best stab I could take at that.

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I'm more inclined to believe that one day the earth will just cease to support life...like in that Star Trak Next Generation episode where Picquard "relives" the last days of a dying planet whose soil ceases to be fertile (or something like that).

PurpleJedi said:

I'm more inclined to believe that one day the earth will just cease to support life...like in that Star Trak Next Generation episode where Picquard "relives" the last days of a dying planet whose soil ceases to be fertile (or something like that).

Yeah, probably something like that.

Food and water shortages are already worrisome yet we're still breeding like lunatics.

Cloudbuster said:

PurpleJedi said:

I'm more inclined to believe that one day the earth will just cease to support life...like in that Star Trak Next Generation episode where Picquard "relives" the last days of a dying planet whose soil ceases to be fertile (or something like that).

Yeah, probably something like that.

Food and water shortages are already worrisome yet we're still breeding like lunatics.

They already forecast that the oceans could be devoid of fish by 2050.

PurpleJedi said:

Cloudbuster said:

Yeah, probably something like that.

Food and water shortages are already worrisome yet we're still breeding like lunatics.

They already forecast that the oceans could be devoid of fish by 2050.

Looking good.

I'm not sure if we will die out completely or be wiped out to a few thousand survivors and evolve into something else.

But it's impossible to say, a meteor could wipe us out, or a disease, or war, or temperature change, or a combination of those.

Not all dinosaurs died out. They evolved. Personally I think it's time for the sharks and turtles to go!

The 2 Ways The World Will End:

1. Wormwood!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...%28star%29

2. A man-made Illuminati-driven One World Government (AKA The New World Order), One World Religion (AKA The Anti-Christ [The False Prophet]/New Babylon), & One World Banking system (AKA The Mark Of The Beast).

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