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That's right. After all, they say all good things come to an end. Someday, maybe not someday soon, but someday, the world on which we live will cease to exist.
But how will this come to pass? What will happen to us? What part if any, will mankind play in the destruction of the lump of rock we call our home?
There are of course many opinions on such an open subject.
Here are a few of them:
"THE WORLD WILL END IN YEAR XXXX" prophecies
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Stupidity, all of them. Most of these centred around the year 2000, an event which, obviously, never came to pass. The kind of person who comes to this conclusion, or believes this sort of thing, is just a defeatist. There is never any evidence linking a certain year with the end of the world, and indeed, the year 2000 was likely chosen simply because it was a nice round number, and something for anyone not a defeatest to look forward to. Prephetic tellings are ludicrous.
"WORLD WAR III" stuff
----------------------
Well, with today's technology, it's easilly thinkable that we could just get carried away pounding each other and accidentally blow ourselves up. But are we really that stupid? The higher echelons of the military in most civilised countries are made up of some very clued in individuals, and some tactical geniuses. Would these people seem like the types to "accidentally" blow up the planet they're standing on? It seems unlikely. But then, there are the developing countries, many of whom now have nuclear weapons, these are concievably a threat. But then, the superior firepower of other nations, and the mere concept that if one of their nuclear warheads so much as farts wrongly at a western country means a retal that will flatten them completely, should keep them in line. So I don't really see us blowing oourselves up anytime soon.
"GLOBAL WARMING" claims of doom and despair.
--------------------------------------------
Yup, that's right. the ozone layer is coming apart at the seams. Everything from cigarette smoking to car fumes to cows eating grass is producing chemicals which attack the ozone layer, and allow solar radiation to come down and pummel the earth. This is causing increased chances of developing skin cancer. At the moment it's causing very little else, but over time it has the potential to change the earth's climate, heating the North Pole, potentially melting it, which would certainly change the face of the planet. Our little island (the UK) would drop underwater like a modern day Atlantis, and all it's history will be lost. and ours wouldn't be the only island to go. A scenario like Waterworld is highly unlikely, but we certainly could see a shortage of living space. But not the end of the world. Just a harder one to live in.
"ALIENS CAN COME FROM OUTERSPACE AND ENSLAVE US" paranoia.
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Ok, so people have a right to be afraid of what they cannot understand. There may be aliens out there, there may not. NO-ONE KNOWS. Any civilisation capable of crossing the great void between world will surely be far more advanced than we are. Should they be aggressive, what could we do to stop them? Pretty much nothing really. But then, why would aliens waste the resources to cross possibly hundreds or thousands of light years to kill of a bunch of people they've never met? For the resources? No. They could go to any world, without resistance, and take whatever they wanted. They consider us a threat? Err, no. They can travel light years, we can't. They rock, we don't. The only explanation is that they do it for fun, which seems highly irrational for a species capable of such technical advancements. And surely a silly thing to do, given that there surely can't be too many species out there.
So I wouldn't say that we need to be afraid of any invasions for a while, at least until we've had some contact, and a chance to extend our warped human politics across the galaxy.
So what's left? Not much to be afraid of really is there? There is one thing more I can think of.
TIME the killer of all things.
-------------------------------
All things DO come to an end, time, by it's very nature is proof of this. If it has a beginning, common sense dictates it has an end. if it takes a hundred years, if it takes a thousand, or a billion, or 50 billion, eventally this world won't exist, neither will it's Sun, or even the galaxy. One day even the universe will cease to exist, and then, even time.
The world is coming to an end, it's just a matter of time.
IB
But how will this come to pass? What will happen to us? What part if any, will mankind play in the destruction of the lump of rock we call our home?
There are of course many opinions on such an open subject.
Here are a few of them:
"THE WORLD WILL END IN YEAR XXXX" prophecies
--------------------------------------------
Stupidity, all of them. Most of these centred around the year 2000, an event which, obviously, never came to pass. The kind of person who comes to this conclusion, or believes this sort of thing, is just a defeatist. There is never any evidence linking a certain year with the end of the world, and indeed, the year 2000 was likely chosen simply because it was a nice round number, and something for anyone not a defeatest to look forward to. Prephetic tellings are ludicrous.
"WORLD WAR III" stuff
----------------------
Well, with today's technology, it's easilly thinkable that we could just get carried away pounding each other and accidentally blow ourselves up. But are we really that stupid? The higher echelons of the military in most civilised countries are made up of some very clued in individuals, and some tactical geniuses. Would these people seem like the types to "accidentally" blow up the planet they're standing on? It seems unlikely. But then, there are the developing countries, many of whom now have nuclear weapons, these are concievably a threat. But then, the superior firepower of other nations, and the mere concept that if one of their nuclear warheads so much as farts wrongly at a western country means a retal that will flatten them completely, should keep them in line. So I don't really see us blowing oourselves up anytime soon.
"GLOBAL WARMING" claims of doom and despair.
--------------------------------------------
Yup, that's right. the ozone layer is coming apart at the seams. Everything from cigarette smoking to car fumes to cows eating grass is producing chemicals which attack the ozone layer, and allow solar radiation to come down and pummel the earth. This is causing increased chances of developing skin cancer. At the moment it's causing very little else, but over time it has the potential to change the earth's climate, heating the North Pole, potentially melting it, which would certainly change the face of the planet. Our little island (the UK) would drop underwater like a modern day Atlantis, and all it's history will be lost. and ours wouldn't be the only island to go. A scenario like Waterworld is highly unlikely, but we certainly could see a shortage of living space. But not the end of the world. Just a harder one to live in.
"ALIENS CAN COME FROM OUTERSPACE AND ENSLAVE US" paranoia.
------------------------------------------------------------
Ok, so people have a right to be afraid of what they cannot understand. There may be aliens out there, there may not. NO-ONE KNOWS. Any civilisation capable of crossing the great void between world will surely be far more advanced than we are. Should they be aggressive, what could we do to stop them? Pretty much nothing really. But then, why would aliens waste the resources to cross possibly hundreds or thousands of light years to kill of a bunch of people they've never met? For the resources? No. They could go to any world, without resistance, and take whatever they wanted. They consider us a threat? Err, no. They can travel light years, we can't. They rock, we don't. The only explanation is that they do it for fun, which seems highly irrational for a species capable of such technical advancements. And surely a silly thing to do, given that there surely can't be too many species out there.
So I wouldn't say that we need to be afraid of any invasions for a while, at least until we've had some contact, and a chance to extend our warped human politics across the galaxy.
So what's left? Not much to be afraid of really is there? There is one thing more I can think of.
TIME the killer of all things.
-------------------------------
All things DO come to an end, time, by it's very nature is proof of this. If it has a beginning, common sense dictates it has an end. if it takes a hundred years, if it takes a thousand, or a billion, or 50 billion, eventally this world won't exist, neither will it's Sun, or even the galaxy. One day even the universe will cease to exist, and then, even time.
The world is coming to an end, it's just a matter of time.
IB
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That's right. After all, they say all good things come to an end. Someday, maybe not someday soon, but someday, the world on which we live will cease to exist.
But how will this come to pass? What will happen to us? What part if any, will mankind play in the destruction of the lump of rock we call our home?
There are of course many opinions on such an open subject.
Here are a few of them:
"THE WORLD WILL END IN YEAR XXXX" prophecies
--------------------------------------------
Stupidity, all of them. Most of these centred around the year 2000, an event which, obviously, never came to pass. The kind of person who comes to this conclusion, or believes this sort of thing, is just a defeatist. There is never any evidence linking a certain year with the end of the world, and indeed, the year 2000 was likely chosen simply because it was a nice round number, and something for anyone not a defeatest to look forward to. Prephetic tellings are ludicrous.
"WORLD WAR III" stuff
----------------------
Well, with today's technology, it's easilly thinkable that we could just get carried away pounding each other and accidentally blow ourselves up. But are we really that stupid? The higher echelons of the military in most civilised countries are made up of some very clued in individuals, and some tactical geniuses. Would these people seem like the types to "accidentally" blow up the planet they're standing on? It seems unlikely. But then, there are the developing countries, many of whom now have nuclear weapons, these are concievably a threat. But then, the superior firepower of other nations, and the mere concept that if one of their nuclear warheads so much as farts wrongly at a western country means a retal that will flatten them completely, should keep them in line. So I don't really see us blowing oourselves up anytime soon.
"GLOBAL WARMING" claims of doom and despair.
--------------------------------------------
Yup, that's right. the ozone layer is coming apart at the seams. Everything from cigarette smoking to car fumes to cows eating grass is producing chemicals which attack the ozone layer, and allow solar radiation to come down and pummel the earth. This is causing increased chances of developing skin cancer. At the moment it's causing very little else, but over time it has the potential to change the earth's climate, heating the North Pole, potentially melting it, which would certainly change the face of the planet. Our little island (the UK) would drop underwater like a modern day Atlantis, and all it's history will be lost. and ours wouldn't be the only island to go. A scenario like Waterworld is highly unlikely, but we certainly could see a shortage of living space. But not the end of the world. Just a harder one to live in.
"ALIENS CAN COME FROM OUTERSPACE AND ENSLAVE US" paranoia.
------------------------------------------------------------
Ok, so people have a right to be afraid of what they cannot understand. There may be aliens out there, there may not. NO-ONE KNOWS. Any civilisation capable of crossing the great void between world will surely be far more advanced than we are. Should they be aggressive, what could we do to stop them? Pretty much nothing really. But then, why would aliens waste the resources to cross possibly hundreds or thousands of light years to kill of a bunch of people they've never met? For the resources? No. They could go to any world, without resistance, and take whatever they wanted. They consider us a threat? Err, no. They can travel light years, we can't. They rock, we don't. The only explanation is that they do it for fun, which seems highly irrational for a species capable of such technical advancements. And surely a silly thing to do, given that there surely can't be too many species out there.
So I wouldn't say that we need to be afraid of any invasions for a while, at least until we've had some contact, and a chance to extend our warped human politics across the galaxy.
So what's left? Not much to be afraid of really is there? There is one thing more I can think of.
TIME the killer of all things.
-------------------------------
All things DO come to an end, time, by it's very nature is proof of this. If it has a beginning, common sense dictates it has an end. if it takes a hundred years, if it takes a thousand, or a billion, or 50 billion, eventally this world won't exist, neither will it's Sun, or even the galaxy. One day even the universe will cease to exist, and then, even time.
The world is coming to an end, it's just a matter of time.
IB
But how will this come to pass? What will happen to us? What part if any, will mankind play in the destruction of the lump of rock we call our home?
There are of course many opinions on such an open subject.
Here are a few of them:
"THE WORLD WILL END IN YEAR XXXX" prophecies
--------------------------------------------
Stupidity, all of them. Most of these centred around the year 2000, an event which, obviously, never came to pass. The kind of person who comes to this conclusion, or believes this sort of thing, is just a defeatist. There is never any evidence linking a certain year with the end of the world, and indeed, the year 2000 was likely chosen simply because it was a nice round number, and something for anyone not a defeatest to look forward to. Prephetic tellings are ludicrous.
"WORLD WAR III" stuff
----------------------
Well, with today's technology, it's easilly thinkable that we could just get carried away pounding each other and accidentally blow ourselves up. But are we really that stupid? The higher echelons of the military in most civilised countries are made up of some very clued in individuals, and some tactical geniuses. Would these people seem like the types to "accidentally" blow up the planet they're standing on? It seems unlikely. But then, there are the developing countries, many of whom now have nuclear weapons, these are concievably a threat. But then, the superior firepower of other nations, and the mere concept that if one of their nuclear warheads so much as farts wrongly at a western country means a retal that will flatten them completely, should keep them in line. So I don't really see us blowing oourselves up anytime soon.
"GLOBAL WARMING" claims of doom and despair.
--------------------------------------------
Yup, that's right. the ozone layer is coming apart at the seams. Everything from cigarette smoking to car fumes to cows eating grass is producing chemicals which attack the ozone layer, and allow solar radiation to come down and pummel the earth. This is causing increased chances of developing skin cancer. At the moment it's causing very little else, but over time it has the potential to change the earth's climate, heating the North Pole, potentially melting it, which would certainly change the face of the planet. Our little island (the UK) would drop underwater like a modern day Atlantis, and all it's history will be lost. and ours wouldn't be the only island to go. A scenario like Waterworld is highly unlikely, but we certainly could see a shortage of living space. But not the end of the world. Just a harder one to live in.
"ALIENS CAN COME FROM OUTERSPACE AND ENSLAVE US" paranoia.
------------------------------------------------------------
Ok, so people have a right to be afraid of what they cannot understand. There may be aliens out there, there may not. NO-ONE KNOWS. Any civilisation capable of crossing the great void between world will surely be far more advanced than we are. Should they be aggressive, what could we do to stop them? Pretty much nothing really. But then, why would aliens waste the resources to cross possibly hundreds or thousands of light years to kill of a bunch of people they've never met? For the resources? No. They could go to any world, without resistance, and take whatever they wanted. They consider us a threat? Err, no. They can travel light years, we can't. They rock, we don't. The only explanation is that they do it for fun, which seems highly irrational for a species capable of such technical advancements. And surely a silly thing to do, given that there surely can't be too many species out there.
So I wouldn't say that we need to be afraid of any invasions for a while, at least until we've had some contact, and a chance to extend our warped human politics across the galaxy.
So what's left? Not much to be afraid of really is there? There is one thing more I can think of.
TIME the killer of all things.
-------------------------------
All things DO come to an end, time, by it's very nature is proof of this. If it has a beginning, common sense dictates it has an end. if it takes a hundred years, if it takes a thousand, or a billion, or 50 billion, eventally this world won't exist, neither will it's Sun, or even the galaxy. One day even the universe will cease to exist, and then, even time.
The world is coming to an end, it's just a matter of time.
IB
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