The end of the world.
<div class="IPBDescription">Irony!</div>So, I'm pretty much assured that the world's gonna end somehow, but I've come up with the perfect ending that embodies the sheer irony of mankind's existence.
I believe a foreign celestial rogue object will, of course, be the end of us. An asteroid, comet, Captain Picard, etc.
However, mankind's end can't be THAT freaking simple. We can't have an asteroid plummet into the Indian ocean, flooding the entire Asian and African continents, and the resulting fallout blotting out the sun leaving those less fortunate souls who didn't die immediately at the hands of a 1,500 foot tall wave of whale-sperm infested waters to die a slow, painful death of starvation as life wanes away under the coming darkness.
No, no, no. We can't have something so simple. Plus, that'd just suck for those who have to starve to death. I prefer my apocalypse scenarios to be quicker... with more irony.
Rather, mankind is going to see the celestial body flying towards us at a zillion miles per hour from somewhere just outside the edges of our Solar System. We are then going to design and implement a team of men and women to planet a device on the celestial body which will detonate on it's surface, deflecting it away from Earth's trajectory.
NASA and the World Leader's, who have banded together in combating this crisis, will overlook one less-than-minor detail.
Our moon.
The celestial body will be successfully deflected away from Earth's trajectory straight into the Moon's trajectory. The ensuing impact will then drive the moon into Earth, splitting earth in half, killing everyone.
Anyone else got any interesting, hopefully ironic, theories on Earth's impending doom?
Edit : This is my first topic created since the forums died many years ago. :x
I believe a foreign celestial rogue object will, of course, be the end of us. An asteroid, comet, Captain Picard, etc.
However, mankind's end can't be THAT freaking simple. We can't have an asteroid plummet into the Indian ocean, flooding the entire Asian and African continents, and the resulting fallout blotting out the sun leaving those less fortunate souls who didn't die immediately at the hands of a 1,500 foot tall wave of whale-sperm infested waters to die a slow, painful death of starvation as life wanes away under the coming darkness.
No, no, no. We can't have something so simple. Plus, that'd just suck for those who have to starve to death. I prefer my apocalypse scenarios to be quicker... with more irony.
Rather, mankind is going to see the celestial body flying towards us at a zillion miles per hour from somewhere just outside the edges of our Solar System. We are then going to design and implement a team of men and women to planet a device on the celestial body which will detonate on it's surface, deflecting it away from Earth's trajectory.
NASA and the World Leader's, who have banded together in combating this crisis, will overlook one less-than-minor detail.
Our moon.
The celestial body will be successfully deflected away from Earth's trajectory straight into the Moon's trajectory. The ensuing impact will then drive the moon into Earth, splitting earth in half, killing everyone.
Anyone else got any interesting, hopefully ironic, theories on Earth's impending doom?
Edit : This is my first topic created since the forums died many years ago. :x
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Srsly , we all know it, we'll die of lung cancer anyway.
Or make a time machine!
And then the christians will eat lamb.
If the moon does fly into the earth, I hope it lands on england. Or, wherever I happen to be. How freakin cool would it be to see the MOON coming toward you? Cooler than Zelda: Majora's Mask anyway.
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Ask Chewbacca.
Ask Chewbacca.
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Low blow.
If the world ends any time soon, it's going to be our fault, not some magical celestial body or Captain Picard, who would never do anything to harm us (Locutus is another matter but whatever). If we don't completely destroy the environment, we'll probably end up skipping the middleman and killing each other.
The great part is: You can find way more then 12 cities of suitable size in the middle-east. There really wouldn't be crap anybody could do about it either if they decided just to blow themselves up.
Fun fact: When a nuke goes off the very pavement on the streets catch on fire.
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Unfortunately for your apocalyptic fantasy, NASA seriously considered and shelved that idea many, many years ago. Whatever the method and explosive used, they could not rule out the possibility that the 'roid would simply fragment and several of its pieces would still hit the Earth and kaboom us all anyway.
Instead, the current plan is to manufacture a very large spacecraft that can travel to meet the object, and exert a gravitational pull upon it that will drive it off course.
In either case, you're really selling NASA short. That's interesting, because they're some of the most brilliant minds we've got. If you add up the mental capacity of everyone here in O/T, the sum would probably not match one of the (hundreds of) scientists that would be assigned to such an operation. We might forget the moon is there, but there's not a chance in hell that the whole team of NASA scientific analysts will overlook it.
You can always dream, though.
Now to throw in an obligatory link relating to this topic...
<a href="http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end.php" target="_blank">The End</a>
Well, unless our children comes up with amazing ways to deflect or destroy asteroids, chances are we are screwed by default. This solar system will go 5 billion years from now, and by that time, who knows what humanity is like by then, because there can be so much factors to a point where it's astronomical.
Now to throw in an obligatory link relating to this topic...
<a href="http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/06/endofworld.html" target="_blank">The End</a>
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Uggggh ebaumsworld ewwww.
You couldn't link to any of the other 23456 places that host that?
In either case, you're really selling NASA short. That's interesting, because they're some of the most brilliant minds we've got. If you add up the mental capacity of everyone here in O/T, the sum would probably not match one of the (hundreds of) scientists that would be assigned to such an operation. We might forget the moon is there, but there's not a chance in hell that the whole team of NASA scientific analysts will overlook it.
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I'm not selling NASA short. They put Space Camp in Alabama. I know, I attended it for 4 years straight. >_>
Who puts something that advanced in a place so backwards? (Then again, I'm 12 miles from the MS/AL state line, but on the MS side)
God I cried inside when they dismantled the centrifuge.
Also, I was responsible for the complete destruction of our crew by releasing the solid fuel boosters 1 minute 19 seconds early one year. That was great. >_>
I miss it all, but theres one thing I miss above everything else.
Dippin' dots. EVERYWHERE.
Also, you sell O/T short. We'se a brilliant bunch we sure is. Uh-hyuk.
microsoft will save the day
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With Microsoft <i>Matrix</i>
The only OS which requires you to drill a hole in your skull <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
If it's <i>still </i> out of the question, well, I figure a red giant sun will incinerate humanity and Earth nicely. The problem is, is that it's very unlikely that we'd be able to permanently de-life Earth; heck, it may even be nearly impossible to kill every human on Earth. A 5.9742 × 10^24kg object is something very difficult to destroy.
I think irony would be if England or France nuked wherever President Bush was - guess who found the WMDs!
(...maybe that's too personal-oriented)
...I'd also love to see a source for this 12 cities theory, since...well, there was tons and tons of destruction in WW2 (including two (weakly) nuked cities), and I don't recall a very dramatic climate change in the late 40s and 50s).
gg <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/marine.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::marine::" border="0" alt="marine.gif" />
thats a gg
actually if the sun blew up we wouldnt freeze our entire solar system would collapse and be engulped by the hugeeee explosion of the sun and kabooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom
The great part is: You can find way more then 12 cities of suitable size in the middle-east. There really wouldn't be crap anybody could do about it either if they decided just to blow themselves up.
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The whole middle east is "they"?
The great part is: You can find way more then 12 cities of suitable size in the middle-east. There really wouldn't be crap anybody could do about it either if they decided just to blow themselves up.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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The whole middle east is "they"?
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Well I suppose he could have stated "The great part is: You can find way more then 12 cities of suitable size in the middle-east. There really wouldn't be crap anybody could do about it either if Afganistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Georgia, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qutar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen decided just to blow themselves up."
i think he used "they" to refer to the whole region..... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
of course though only Israel is the only one to officialy have nukes so i dont see Xyths scenario happening. Unless Israel is invaded. And I have a good idea based off of what Israeli leaders have said in the past they they would indeed use their nukes as well if they really felt the need too.
Houston is Dippin' Dot city <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a <a href="http://ualuealuealeuale.ytmnd.com/" target="_blank">ualuealuealeuale</a>.
Anyone else got any interesting, hopefully ironic, theories on Earth's impending doom?
Edit : This is my first topic created since the forums died many years ago. :x
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Well firstly after reading the first post I can see why you haven't created any topics since the forums first come back online, you chat crap <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
Secondly I think god will smite us all and the Earth will just explode. The irony? Religion loses.
Well firstly after reading the first post I can see why you haven't created any topics since the forums first come back online, you chat crap <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
Secondly I think god will smite us all and the Earth will just explode. The irony? Religion loses.
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Yus, my threads are usually long-winded and utterly pointless/and or stupid.
But they pass the time... Also - 2 pages! this might even get to 3! One of my better posts, apparently.
Most likely end of the earth? Same as the rest of the universe. There's a good chance that it'll survive Sol's death, in which case it'll just continue to orbit the slowly cooling remains of our star until the universe itself comes to whatever end it comes to. The likelihood of anyone demolishing it is remote.
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Especially since we can complain about any possible demolition at our local planning office in Alpha Centauri.