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"How will the world end?"

All things must die in the long run, so lets have a vote.

a) Asteroid smashes the Earth in two
b) The old classic of WW3 and nuclear/chemical death etc
c) Global warming
d) Ailens invading/destroying
e) Overpopulation, end of finite reources etc

I'd go for A. Not sure why, probably because I read so much about asteroids hitting the Earth.
But I used to imagine the world getting over-populated. Too heavy. So the Earth would just drop.. somewhere. And everybody would fall off the planet.

There's an asteroid going to hit in 2017.
Didn't you hear?
A pretty big one, too.

Skarra wrote:
> He said that the ones closer to the sun would get absorbed sooner than
> Earth, but he was very specific, Earth would be engulfed, perhaps not
> by the sun, but certainly its heat. Like a balloon, it gets bigger,
> and bigger, taking the planets with it, until, BOOM.

And the Boom, would send out pieces of hot rocks into the solar system which would hit other rocks/planets and create new ones?

He said that the ones closer to the sun would get absorbed sooner than Earth, but he was very specific, Earth would be engulfed, perhaps not by the sun, but certainly its heat. Like a balloon, it gets bigger, and bigger, taking the planets with it, until, BOOM.

Skarra wrote:
> Did you watch that science show with Sam Neil? Well, he told us how
> the World WOULD end. The suns expanding, and eventually, it will
> engulf the Earth. Thats a long, long way off yet, but thats the only
> 100% certain way the world will end, as far as i know.

The Earth wouldn't get absorbed (Only the planets closer than it to the sun will) but there will be a build up of energy (Nuclear) which would destroy the earth. Either that or gravitational fields would become unbalanced and we would collide with other planets in our solar system. If the the planet was heated up so much from the Nuclear Energy then we collided with many planets - The chances are a new solar system would eventually evolve.

SHEEPY wrote:
> All things must die in the long run, so lets have a vote.
>
> a) Asteroid smashes the Earth in two

Possible, but we'd have to be dam unlucky for that to happen.

> b) The old classic of WW3 and nuclear/chemical death etc

Perhaps, but, again, unlikely.

> c) Global warming

Potentially, but not for a long while yet. It may even be our salvation. Plans to colonize Mars depend, in part on Global Warming.

> d) Ailens invading/destroying

What for, Earth is dying, and has few natural resources left. So unless there's a Universal need for water, don't expect it.

> e) Overpopulation, end of finite reources etc

Enevitable, but perhaps alternatives will be found.

Atlas, who is currently bearing the Earth on his shoulders, will get seriously tired and fling it into the sun like a medicine ball.

Did you watch that science show with Sam Neil? Well, he told us how the World WOULD end. The suns expanding, and eventually, it will engulf the Earth. Thats a long, long way off yet, but thats the only 100% certain way the world will end, as far as i know.

Silent-Scope wrote:
> God you pop up from nowhere sometimes FM just like you on UT :P

On that subject... UT2004 rocks :)

At the hands of my 50's style death ray.