End Of The World
Hawkeye
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<div class="IPBDescription">What will happen?</div> <a href='http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrld.htm' target='_blank'>The millennium and the end of the world predictions site</a>
<a href='http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9701/15/end.universe/' target='_blank'>Physicists' description of the end of the world</a>
The end of the world. Will it happen? When will it happen? How will it happen?
These are some of the many questions that arise about the end of the world. You might want to check out the two links I provided. The first one is a cynical look at the end of the world like it will never happen. The second link is the physicists' interpretation of the end of the world. There are many other views though. Christianity have described the end of the world as being a rapture or "harvesting" of souls. The moon will turn blood red, and the dead will rise again. The four horsemen of the apocolypse will come riding.
This thread is by all means religious in nature as well as scientific, so suggestions can be, but aren't limited to scientific facts. All opinions are welcome (so long as they pertain to the topic). Let the games begin. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
<a href='http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9701/15/end.universe/' target='_blank'>Physicists' description of the end of the world</a>
The end of the world. Will it happen? When will it happen? How will it happen?
These are some of the many questions that arise about the end of the world. You might want to check out the two links I provided. The first one is a cynical look at the end of the world like it will never happen. The second link is the physicists' interpretation of the end of the world. There are many other views though. Christianity have described the end of the world as being a rapture or "harvesting" of souls. The moon will turn blood red, and the dead will rise again. The four horsemen of the apocolypse will come riding.
This thread is by all means religious in nature as well as scientific, so suggestions can be, but aren't limited to scientific facts. All opinions are welcome (so long as they pertain to the topic). Let the games begin. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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How would humans be able to live for that long? No species lasted (or could last) that long... humans will probably be no exception. Other life-forms will probably replace us...
And after that 1 with 200 zero's years later, probably the universe will collapse on itself, creating a microscopic chunk of matter, antimatter, energy, whatnot... everything that ever existed. Then, it'll expand faster than the speed of light again, in the Second Big Bang, and everything will start over again.
Maybe even the same way; the planets will develop like they are now, and Earth(2) would be formed, and Flayra(2) would invent NS(2) sometime <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
(Before anything gets said - I'm not a Christian, I just think its a cool quote and wanted to get in there before Boggle does <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> )
How the world is going now, we can safely assume our species will be extinct long before the universe ever ceases to exist.
<a href='http://www.fluidweb.net/endoftheworld.swf' target='_blank'>http://www.fluidweb.net/endoftheworld.swf</a> (<span style='color:red'>language</span>)
Want an insiders view of the end of the world? Revelation my friends. Read it, its scary.
If it takes place instantly, then, well, thats it.
If it takes place over the course of a year, you'd probably see mass suicides along with looting and hoarding.
If it takes place over the course of 10 - 30 years, you might see the above initially, then people will become resigned to their fate and a general feeling of apathy will take place. A plan to escape might actually be tried, but will probably fail. You may also see a high upsurge of population.
If it takes place over the course of a century or more, most people wont care. International governments might band together to devise a plan of escape, or become evermore divided as wars ravage the planet before the end. Also, an upsurge of population would occur prior to the end.
Individualistically, I'd get nice and drunk if the end were coming in my liftime. Sit somewhere, nice and drunk, and watch the end arrive, so long as I was powerless to stop it.
If the end could be stopped, then I would devote as much as I could to stop it. Even if it meant forfieting my life.
Humanity might be a sad lot, but there is always hope that they will evolve into something better.
And just a point, many people have said that humans wont be around in 5 Billion years. The problem with that argument is that there has been no evidence of intelligent species before man. We are unique in the entire history of the earth in that matter, and as such we are presented with the faculties to recognise extinction when it rears it's head, and cling on to life tooth and nail.
I have confidence that given proper management of the human species, we can most certainly survive indefinitely.
The andromeda galaxy will collide with ours, but it's not the same as two solid objects smacking into each other.
Scientists have by observation ascertained that Andromeda has eaten a couple of other galaxies before ours, and it's still there.
So, Milky Way colliding with Andromeda != Destruction
Relocate to N Corridor and block off everything with comm chairs until I can no longer keep it up.
I'd be very interested to hear which Biblical scholar gave you that impression? Nothing in the way revelation is written suggests that it might be pure symbolism. I'm sure that some of the events described will take place outside of this plane of being, and that some of the events described are the attempts of a man 1000's of years ago attempting to describe what he was being shown in his own language. For example, if you were shown a vision of armaggedon back in 70AD, what would you describe a helicopter as?
But nothing suggests that any of revelation isnt actually going to take place.
btw, The universe will continue expanding forever. It is of critical mass. Is expansion will slow down but will never stop. There will be no such thing as the big crunch
I believe the symbolic message we get from the text is that we cause our own downfall. The metaphor is that god will unleash his wrath on the world for their ignorance. Yet god is only a metaphor for ourselves, and our ignorance will lead to the end of the world.
The andromeda galaxy will collide with ours, but it's not the same as two solid objects smacking into each other.
Scientists have by observation ascertained that Andromeda has <b>eaten a couple of other galaxies before ours, and it's still there.</b>
So, Milky Way colliding with Andromeda != Destruction <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
err, yes we're screwed. Milky Way has no chance to survive, make your time.
besides, if the Milky Way, as a whole, did survive the encounter, that doesnt garantee the safety of our solar system and/or planet.
Mankind will wipe itself out long before then. For all intents and purposes, you might as well assume the universe and earth will never end.
The earth will be inhabitable at this rate in about 100 years. Pollution, wars, global warming will all add up. The end of mankind will be in 100 short years. I'm just glad I won't be around to see it.
Also, they only consider the world to end when "the sun dies". However, one must also take into consideration other possibilities. Say a huge meteor hit Earth, and when I mean by huge, I mean something like the size of Texas. One small meteor can cause a huge destruction, taking for example an incident which occured in Siberia, during the Cold War. A small meteor hit Siberia, and the destruction was the same as of Hiroshima and Nagaski. And the small meteor was about the size of a large tree.
There are also other posibilities, such as the explosion of a neutron star (not sure if it is exactly this, but is has something to do with neutrons or neutrinos). This explosion could occur further away than Pluto, and would still cause the Earth to become a huge microwave. Some say that Earth has been lucky.
Now, if the world will end is only a matter of probability. How probable that this things will happen? This is the true time that the Earth will end.
didnt you watch terminator 2? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
well, uhhh, not to destroy my point too much...
but yeah, the human race will kill itself sooner or later.
((or something, dunno what it is in English))
If we actually manage to make it to the point where the sun will blow up, we won't probably be <i>humans</i> anymore, since in some odd billion years evolution is bound to kick in at some stage. That's assuming we get bloody lucky and nothing hits us like the whatsitsname meteor that killed the dinosaurs or the Andromeda won't collide with the Milky Way or anything like that.
Rosie O'Donell and Shaquille O'neal will make a movie together.
The way the world will end will be a way we least expect.