There have been many ideas/theories about the end of the world. I personally am going to go along with the Mayans/Albert Einstein.

Ancient Mayan Calendar suggests that the end of the world will be December 21, 2012.
Einstein Theory: End of the world will be when bees become extinct.

That's my theory. Any other ideas?

Explain more about this "bee" thing to me.

http://www.heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.7.BEES.htm

Personally, I beleive it'll be caused by a bomb. :double: ...wait, I mean :thumbsdown:

i doubt itll be from bees. probably from some sort of bio-engineered virus that breaks out and spreads. maybe we will live long enough to build machines that will be smart enough to wipe us out and take over.

honestly any day can be the end of the world because when God comes the worlds pretty much over IMO

Possibly global warming, but I'm hoping for a gigantic meteor. That'd be awesome.

ok woah o.O

i think itll be a bomb also eather that or the hamsters build an army and take over the world then blow it up and make a hamster utopia

I have my beliefs, in the Bible it says, but I don't think I can discuss religion here.

You can. End of the world, The Bible predicits it.

Then again, It is said that not even angels know when the end of the world is gonna be. Only God himself knows. :double:

This isn't Resident Evil. D:

I find it funny that my mom's birthday is on December 21st...lulz.

Hm, anyways, I don't think much about how the world is going to end. From what I believe, it will surely happen long after I die. Which is why I don't like thinking about trivial things like that.

wut is december 21

and maybe we go bumper caring with the sun

Its when the Mayans or some other civilization that i forgot at the moment, predicted that the world would end on December 21, 2012

ooo cool o.O

but ill only be 19 *cries*

but i think we should make a new world not like this crappy one

I can already name a few people that might be slightly paranoid about it. I was talking to my friend Elizavette about it, ad she just wanted to drop it.

Alien threat?
World War 3?
Global Warming?

And maybe technology takes over like the tv switches by itself no need for walking .Wcan take the hover bus for 50p or suttin and everyone becomes obeist or lazy,we start to die because we are not taking proper care of ourselves.

Okay that may seem a bit odd but still.

Read Revelations, that's what will happen.
Or WW III, or a whole number of things. Actually, the world could end any time now, or it could have ended hundreds of years ago.

Take that for what you will.

Well don't fret people, if the world somehow survives, in a few billion years or so the sun will engulf the planet ^^. That's how I want it to go (or in a big explosion).

It is estimated 5 billion years when the sun turns into a red giant.

Thank GOD we'll all be dead by then.

You all act like the end of days will be awesome, what the hell is wrong with you people? Explosions are cool and all; but what if it happened to you? It would suck ass. It would be the worst day of your lives. Although we may go in an explosion, I think the end of the world will be a peaceful day. Ever read the Lord's Prayer? "Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven", not sure if that's exact, but oh well. It's something like that. That's supposed to mean heaven on Earth will be the end, The day heaven comes to earth.

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In this post, I'll present 20 different ways humanity can be ended. Perhaps a few you've never been aware of. I though about making a new topic, but the topic of the end of the world and humanity go hand in hand anyway. Sources cited from a Discovery Magazine article published in 2000.

I'll start with the ones everyone thinks right away. Many are already aware of these...

1. Asteroid Impact

Such an event ended the reign of the dinosaurs, and it could easily spell doom for humanity as well. An asteroid six miles wide impacting the Earth would send up billions of tons of debris, causing a global firestorm that would burn any life-form on the surface to a crisp in minutes. This would be followed by a devastating period of cold and darkness lasting for centuries, and those humans not killed in the initial firestorm would perish of starvation.

2. Nuclear Warfare

Together, the United States and Russia still have nearly 20,000 active nuclear warheads. While the Cold War is technically "over", in the charged landscape of global politics, it would not take much to set off these two superpowers, and with multi-megaton nuclear bombs raining down across the globe, it is unlikely humanity would survive. Massive firestorms would starts in forests all over the globe, while high levels of lingering radiation would cause the cancer rate to skyrocket. Nuclear winter would cool the earth for decades, causing many plants to die out, and the animals who rely on those plants to perish as a consequence. Perhaps most damaging of all, the EMP pulses from thousand of nuclear explosions would fry electrical circuits across the globe, destroying telecommunication, transportation, food storage, and other vital aspects of everyday life we all take for granted.

3. Climate Change

Al Gore's global warming hype aside, climate change is no laughing matter. Most scientists agree that manmade activity is warming the Earth, and that if something is not done about it soon, the consequences could be dire. On top of the fact that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of plant and animal species could die out, the resulting floods triggered by the melting of polar ice caps would displace more than a billion people, leading to mass starvation and devastating resource wars that could potentially lead to the global nuclear war described in the previous scenario.

4. Robots Overthrow Humanity

For now, this scenario is reserve for Hollywood action blockbusters, but, as computer chips gain more and more processing power, and robots become more and more intelligent, it could be only decades before a manmade robot achieves self-awareness, and with the capacity for great intelligence also comes knowledge about the darkest facets of human nature. Intelligent robots who realize humanity's capacity for violence and self-destructiveness may view us as "hostile" or "obsolete", and choose to turn on us as soon as they gain intelligence. Conversely, they may also bide their time, waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike a killing blow against the human race, perhaps even using our own worst instruments of destruction against us.

5. Alien Invasion

Another scenario straight out of Hollywood, it is not inconceivable that a hostile visitor from space could one day wreak destruction on humanity. After all, anything with enough intelligence to traverse great interplanetary distances must also possess the technology to wage terrible warfare, far more powerful and deadly than we have ever known. It is well-known what happened to the indigenous peoples of the Old World, whose primitive technology was easily outclassed by peoples such as the Spaniards and the English. Imagine a technological gap a thousand times greater. It is unlikely that we would stand a chance against hostile invading aliens.


Now for a few scenarios that may be new to you.

6. Gamma Ray Burst

Gamma ray bursts are massive blasts of radiation created when an enormous star dies and explodes in a brilliant flash of energy known as a hypernova. These explosions, when they occur, can outshine entire galaxies, and the radiation that they give off can reach across thousands of light-years. Were such a star to explode within a bout thousand light-years of Earth, the radiation would burn off our atmosphere and expose us to lethal doses of gamma radiation from space. Most living things would die within a month from horrific radiation sickness, the equivalent of the Hiroshima bomb exploding everywhere on Earth.

7. Global Pandemic

Another nightmare scenario where there is an element of truth to the hype, it's not just the bird flu that could kill scores of millions of people. Old diseases such as cholera and measles have recently shown resistance to antibiotics, and the bubonic plague, which killed hundreds of millions in the 14th Century, could also make a comeback. Intensive agriculture and land development is bringing humans and animals closer and closer together, and the pathogens engendered by such contact are getting more and more lethal. It may be only a matter of time before the ultimate disease fells humanity.

8. Super-volcano

75,000 years ago, humanity was brought to its knees by an eruption of the Toba super-volcano, which wreaked havoc on Earth's climate and caused a decade-long deep freeze, a disaster that reduced humankind to just a few thousand individuals. The threat is not over, as the Yellowstone super-volcano is overdue for an eruption, and there are other volcanic hotspots all over the world capable of creating a climatic disaster. An erupting flood basalt volcano has the potential to spew thousands of cubic kilometers of material into the atmosphere.

9. Rogue Black Hole

The gravity of a black hole is so strong that it can swallow everything, including light. Thus, unless a black hole is currently pulling in debris, it is invisible. We might not be able to see one approaching our solar system until it is too late. A few decades before a close encounter at most, astronomers would observe a strange perturbation in the orbits of the outer planets. As the effect grew larger, it would be possible to make increasingly precise estimates of the location and mass of the interloper. The black hole wouldn't have to come all that close to Earth to bring ruin; just passing through the solar system would distort all of the planets' orbits. Earth might get drawn into an elliptical path that would cause extreme climate swings, or it might get ejected from the solar system and go hurtling to a frigid fate in deep space.

10. Nano-tech Disaster

As our knowledge of nanotechnology increases, the ability to create self-replicating nano-machines is coming closer and closer to reality. The threat from this, of course, is obvious. A carelessly discarded nano-machine programmed to transform any carbon it finds into a new copy of itself would take only days to turn the entirety of the planet's organic material into dust.


Now we go into the realm of even more obscure world-ending scenarios.

11. Magnetic Pole Reversal

Every few hundred thousand years, Earth's magnetic field dwindles almost to nothing for perhaps a century, then gradually reappears with the north and south poles flipped. The last such reversal was 780,000 years ago, so we may be overdue. Worse, the strength of our magnetic field has decreased about 5 percent in the past century. The magnetic field deflects particle storms and cosmic rays from deep space. Without magnetic protection, these particles would strike Earth's atmosphere. eroding the already beleaguered ozone layer and possibly leading to humanity being exposed to dangerous solar radiation for several hundred years.

12. Solar Megaflare

Some perfectly normal-looking, sun-like stars can brighten briefly by up to a factor of 20. These stellar flickers are caused by superflares, millions of times more powerful than their common cousins. Within a few hours, a superflare on the sun could fry Earth and begin disintegrating the ozone layer, leading to a massive bombardment of radiation. Even if this does not occur, such a flare would also generate an EMP wave, instantly frying electronic devices over an entire hemisphere. Periods of global cooling and ice ages have also been linked to these massive solar flares.

13. Ecological Collapse

Billions of years of evolution have produced a world in which every organism's welfare is intertwined with that of countless other species. This includes humanity, who would be affected by a massive loss of biodiversity in ways that we cannot possibly imagine. It is a fact that human activity is contributing to a mass extinction that could potentially wipe out up to half of the world's plant and animal species, and almost no creature is safe. Recently, the population of the honeybee, a critical pollinator, has gone into massive decline, and with the loss of such critical ecological links, a devastating chain reaction may have already begun.

14. Biotech Disaster

Relentless technological advancement has led to the cultivation of thousands of genetically-modified crops and animal species. On many occasions, these modified creations are designed to be superior to the natural environment, and thus, there is potential for runaway multiplication of genetically-enhanced "superweeds" and "superpests", which could overrun vital food crops and lead to a worldwide food shortage. In addition, our modification of bacterial microbes could leads to a dangerous pandemic unlike anything the world has ever known. Imagine a terrorist being able to cultivate airborne AIDS or a highly-virulent strain of Ebola. Billions could easily be killed.

15. Environmental Toxens

Perhaps it is true that the modern-day hype that "everything causes cancer" is a bit on the alarmist side. However, as industry expands and more and more dangerous chemicals are developed, it is very possible that the Earth's atmosphere is being polluted in ways that are irreversible. Disasters like the one in Bhopal that claimed 3,000 lives could occur on a larger scale as industry continues to expand and factories spring up all over the planet. Too much pollution in the atmosphere could lead to what is known as a "hydroxyl collapse", a breakdown in the basic chemicals that repair damage to the air we breathe. If such a collapse occurs, the air all over the globe would become too toxic for life to exist.


Finally, we delve into the realm of the cosmic, the divine, the supernatural, and the just plain crazy.

16. Particle Accelerator Mishap

Particle accelerators, designed to crash charged atoms into one another at incredible speeds, are capable of replicating conditions unseen on Earth since the time of the Big Bang. This could have horrific consequences, not limited to: creating miniature black holes, creating strange matter capable of converting the earth into hyper-explosive particles, and chain reactions resulting in the collapse of the quantum vacuum, generating a chain reaction capable of destroying a galactic super-cluster. The chances of such a mishap are said to be as great as the chances of people hitting the lottery twice, but we know THAT'S happened before.

17. Quantum Vacuum Collapse

Of course, it is entirely possible that the quantum vacuum could collapse on its own, and in the early period of the universe, that may have already happened. Very early in the history of the universe, empty space was full of energy. This state of affair, called a false vacuum, was highly precarious. A new, more stable kind of vacuum appeared and quickly took over. This transition unleashed a tremendous amount of energy and caused a brief runaway expansion of the cosmos. It is possible that another, even more stable kind of vacuum exists, however. As the universe expands and cools, tiny bubbles of this new kind of vacuum might appear and spread at nearly the speed of light. The laws of physics would change in their wake, and a blast of energy would dash everything, including humanity, to bits.

18. Mass Insanity

In a world where playing too much Nintendo can be labeled as a mental disorder, nearly 500 million people have been diagnosed with some form of psychological disease. While this may simply be a result of doctors assigning the label of "mental illness" to everything under the sun, there is compelling evidence to suggest that we as a species are slowly losing our minds. The incidence of depression in society is vastly increasing, and in a world growing more and more complex, these numbers are only due to grow larger as time goes on. It has even been postulated that one day, we may all choose to end our lives in an all-reaching mass suicide.

19. The End of Days

While tales of doom and gloom have been spread by hellfire and brimstone preachers for years, it's not just evangelical Christians who believe that God will one day decide to bring about the end of the world. Islam and Hinduism have their own apocalyptic tales to tell, and many people believe that signs of the Apocalypse have been around for decades. Whether or not you're a believer, know this: one concrete apocalyptic date is just around the corner. The Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012... just a little more than 4 years away.

20. All Just a Dream

Have you ever given serious thought to the idea that we might all be living in some technological dream world? The Matrix perhaps, or even just a game of cosmic Sims? If this is true, if we are all just characters in a video game, then what's stopping the being running that game from pulling the plug? It would all be over in an instant, and we wouldn't even see it coming. But of course, when you turn off your own Sims game, do you ever imagine how the characters in that game might feel, having their own existences squashed out? Of course you don't. They're not real.

Whether or not we are the instruments of our own destruction, or extinction comes from beyond the stars or perhaps even within the Earth itself, this much is true:

One day, humanity will end. We cannot stop it, it is inevitable.

Perhaps it would be best if the final scenario were true. If humanity saw its end coming, days, weeks, years, centuries in advance... the horror of those final moments would be unimaginable.

What would you do if you knew the world would come to an end? I pray that is a question we never have to consider.

Bra-fucking-oh.
Great post Tut, was that interesting. :love:

We don't need to make this topic as daunting by repeating the same thing in quotes. Don't need to quote the whole thing again. XD

20. All Just a Dream

Have you ever given serious thought to the idea that we might all be living in some technological dream world? The Matrix perhaps, or even just a game of cosmic Sims? If this is true, if we are all just characters in a video game, then what's stopping the being running that game from pulling the plug? It would all be over in an instant, and we wouldn't even see it coming. But of course, when you turn off your own Sims game, do you ever imagine how the characters in that game might feel, having their own existences squashed out? Of course you don't. They're not real.

But... WTF? In that case, the person playing as me would be really, really, really, bored to hell. XD

this one made me lol., and OMG nice post dude

Actually the poles are supposed to be switching very soon, this is what many scientists think are killing all the bees. when all the bees started to disappear, there weren't any bodies, this suggests that they moved. and because bees use the poles as guides, the poles switching could lead them into unknown places such as large bodies of water where they could have died.