Some people believe with the "evolution" of weaponry, Armageddon is inevitable. We will continue to create weaponry until we have the capability to wipe out life on earth with the flip of a switch. The wrong hands get ahold of this weapon, and it is all over.
Others believe armageddon is imminent; in a recent poll (I forget from where) over 50% of Americans believe that a world-wide catastrophic incident will occur within the next 50 years.
I was curious what Teamliquid thought about all these "doomsday scenarios" that scientists and people on the street alike throw out. Some argue that global warming will destroy us. Others believe it will be superbugs resistant to modern drugs and medicines. Still others believe it will be the massive asteroid that will cover the earth in dust for decades.
Will it be these that will end life as we know it?
Or will it be one of these?
Poll: How will it end?
It Won't (97)
50%
Other (19)
10%
Nukes (17)
9%
Asteroid (15)
8%
Superbugs (12)
6%
Other Natural Disaster (11)
6%
Religious Stuff (11)
6%
Evolution of Weaponry (5)
3%
Global Warming (4)
2%
Nanotechology (4)
2%
195 total votes
Your vote: How will it end?
(Vote): Nukes (Vote): Asteroid (Vote): Global Warming (Vote): Other Natural Disaster (Vote): Religious Stuff (Vote): Superbugs (Vote): Nanotechology (Vote): Evolution of Weaponry (Vote): Other (Vote): It Won't
On June 29 2010 09:33 Piy wrote: Well the sun will eventually burn out. And then that'll be it.
People will probably be wiped out by increasing temperatures/drug resistant, air transmitted plague.
You don't think that if our species survives another 5 BILLION years, we still won't have the technology to get out of this solar system?
I guess I should've added the option: entropy, cause inevitably, even if the human species goes on for billions more years, eventually all matter will pull apart.
The only thing, imo, that could wipe out all of humanity would be an asteroid or if in several billion years we're still confined to the Earth when the Sun consumes it.
The other stuff would probably end civilization, but some people would be able to survive and live in small groups like we did for a long time before now. Even all out nuclear war wouldn't contaminant the whole Earth, just large parts of it.
i really don't think any of this BS will happen in our lifetime or at least i don't want it to life is good, i'm enjoying it.
however to stay on topic, i'd say nukes before anything else we already have the technology/modern science/ideas of ways to stop an asteroid from hitting us we'll be given' tonnes of time before it hits us, so thats something we'll have time to preprare for, and approach with a proper answer. nukes however, or world war, these things can happen at the drop of a dime, no one will have a clue. you'll be eating a cake. next you'll see a mushroom cloud. next you'll be talking to jesus.
We have the technology to defend against most of these disasters.
For example, scientists have developed machines which can be built to defend against solar flares (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare) using a gamma ray reflector.
While nukes would kill a lot of people upon impact, long lasting radiation effects have already been "solved" through a compound called DEE-13, which is derived from THC and dissolves radiation instantly.
To prevent an asteroid from ending life on earth, we would simply need to redirect earth's orbit or the asteriod's trajectory. Both of these tasks are trivial in theory (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trivial); the earth's orbit can and has been redirected several times through the use of cosmological accelerators, and the asteriods's orbit could be redirected through the use of low gravity torque pulsars.
Superbugs are probably the biggest threat, but scientists predict that DEE-13 could also act to kill superbugs.
On June 29 2010 09:37 keNNabis wrote: i really don't think any of this BS will happen in our lifetime or at least i don't want it to life is good, i'm enjoying it.
however to stay on topic, i'd say nukes before anything else we already have the technology/modern science/ideas of ways to stop an asteroid from hitting us we'll be given' tonnes of time before it hits us, so thats something we'll have time to preprare for, and approach with a proper answer. nukes however, or world war, these things can happen at the drop of a dime, no one will have a clue. you'll be eating a cake. next you'll see a mushroom cloud. next you'll be talking to jesus.
dude you have been watching wayyy too much armeggedon
if a large astertoid is going to directly hit the earth we are sooooooo fucked.
On June 29 2010 09:46 drewcifer wrote: Anyone predicting how the world is going to end is just playing fantasy with themselves. Has nothing to do with science or anything tangible.
I particularly think the human race will be wiped out by dolphins, the 2nd most intelligent creature on the planet atm.
edit: after mice ofc
You win for Hitchhiker's reference. I am going to watch that movie now. ^^
On June 29 2010 09:46 drewcifer wrote: Anyone predicting how the world is going to end is just playing fantasy with themselves. Has nothing to do with science or anything tangible.
r u kidding me?
when the earth was a lush and fertile planet and had mad dinosaurs roaming, a piece of rock just 6 mile wide changed all that. it hit with the force of 10,000 nukes, made a trillion tons of dirt and rock go into the atmosfere like a suffocating blanket of dust. the sun was powerless to penetrate that shit for a thousand years. it happened before. it will happen again. it's just a question.. of WHEN.
On June 29 2010 09:46 drewcifer wrote: Anyone predicting how the world is going to end is just playing fantasy with themselves. Has nothing to do with science or anything tangible.
r u kidding me?
when the earth was a lush and fertile planet and had mad dinosaurs roaming, a piece of rock just 6 mile wide changed all that. it hit with the force of 10,000 nukes, made a trillion tons of dirt and rock go into the atmosfere like a suffocating blanket of dust. the sun was powerless to penetrate that shit for a thousand years. it happened before. it will happen again. it's just a question.. of WHEN.
We have usable brains though...Human beings are a pretty hearty species, i'm fairly certain at least a few of our kind would survive something like this.
Actually destroying the earth would be quite a feat. I don't think we're capable of it, and I really don't know if we ever will be.
Destroying humanity is a different story. Given the frailty of the human body it's not unreasonable to think that it would be possible for ever human to simultaneously die in some catastrophic event.
The evolution of technology will certainly make it easier for us to destroy ourselves, but I hope the human conscious will evolve in kind. Look at it this way, we humans have had nuclear technology for almost a full century, and we've only used two nukes on each other. Both happened pretty much right after the technology was developed. And we've made it through almost a full century without a repeat! That's pretty good in my opinion, but it's pittance compared to how long we'll have to avoid using them if we want to survive more than a brief moment in the scale of the whole universe.
The problem with the belief that technology will destroy us is that technology is developed solely to make human life easier, and more comfortable. Developers of technology would almost never use their technology as weaponry against others. Those decisions are almost always made by the uneducated, those in power of nations and those who wage wars. Every young engineer or scientist in training is well taught in the art of ethical considerations, and I really can't see any of my colleagues ever developing technology with the intent to harm anyone else. In fact, two years ago I met someone in my field who willingly failed his senior project class because his project was being sponsored by a company that makes bombs.
Despite all of that, I really think that even if we enter a nuclear winter or a mass extinction by some other means, I think some small facet of humanity will find a hole big enough to survive in or something. We're a very crafty species.
And as for a meteor collision, I'm pretty sure we're very close to having working technology to deflect meteors. It's not completely out of the question that we'll be able to avoid any future meteor impacts by merely pushing it out of the way with rockets. The main problem, honestly, is whether or not we'll see it in time.
On June 29 2010 09:37 keNNabis wrote: i really don't think any of this BS will happen in our lifetime or at least i don't want it to life is good, i'm enjoying it.
however to stay on topic, i'd say nukes before anything else we already have the technology/modern science/ideas of ways to stop an asteroid from hitting us we'll be given' tonnes of time before it hits us, so thats something we'll have time to preprare for, and approach with a proper answer. nukes however, or world war, these things can happen at the drop of a dime, no one will have a clue. you'll be eating a cake. next you'll see a mushroom cloud. next you'll be talking to jesus.
dude you have been watching wayyy too much armeggedon
if a large astertoid is going to directly hit the earth we are sooooooo fucked.
I think people from the past had a few apocalypse experience (Black Plague, WW1, WW2, Famine somewhere, etc.) but the thing that's deterring war itself are the nukes. But, hell that didn't stop America from owning Iraq's ass (since I think they didn't have nukes).
An asteroid is most likely to cause mayhem and oblivion to the Earth since it happened to the dinosaurs. But I think the ability of Humans to adapt to something a Hell Freeze wouldn't be that much of a problem to the survivors. (except if they are all whiney bitches like in the SC 2 forums LOL) Kidding
On June 29 2010 09:33 Piy wrote: Well the sun will eventually burn out. And then that'll be it.
People will probably be wiped out by increasing temperatures/drug resistant, air transmitted plague.
You don't think that if our species survives another 5 BILLION years, we still won't have the technology to get out of this solar system?
I guess I should've added the option: entropy, cause inevitably, even if the human species goes on for billions more years, eventually all matter will pull apart.
People actually misinterpret earth's habitability when throwing around that 5 billion years figure.
5 billion years is when the sun will become so big it will almost engulf the earth.
In reality, we've merely got half a billion to one billion years left until the sun's radiation becomes so strong that our oceans start to evaporate.
On June 29 2010 09:46 drewcifer wrote: Anyone predicting how the world is going to end is just playing fantasy with themselves. Has nothing to do with science or anything tangible.
r u kidding me?
when the earth was a lush and fertile planet and had mad dinosaurs roaming, a piece of rock just 6 mile wide changed all that. it hit with the force of 10,000 nukes, made a trillion tons of dirt and rock go into the atmosfere like a suffocating blanket of dust. the sun was powerless to penetrate that shit for a thousand years. it happened before. it will happen again. it's just a question.. of WHEN.
supposedly an even larger global extinction was caused by a massive Super Volcano erupting that wiped out something like 95-99% of all species and life (don't recall the exact numbers)
To prevent an asteroid from ending life on earth, we would simply need to redirect earth's orbit or the asteriod's trajectory. Both of these tasks are trivial in theory (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trivial); the earth's orbit can and has been redirected several times through the use of cosmological accelerators, and the asteriods's orbit could be redirected through the use of low gravity torque pulsars.
these are theories that are great in science fiction, but we are still screwed.
On June 29 2010 09:33 Piy wrote: Well the sun will eventually burn out. And then that'll be it.
People will probably be wiped out by increasing temperatures/drug resistant, air transmitted plague.
You don't think that if our species survives another 5 BILLION years, we still won't have the technology to get out of this solar system?
I guess I should've added the option: entropy, cause inevitably, even if the human species goes on for billions more years, eventually all matter will pull apart.
People actually misinterpret earth's habitability when throwing around that 5 billion years figure.
5 billion years is when the sun will become so big it will almost engulf the earth.
In reality, we've merely got half a billion to one billion years left until the sun's radiation becomes so strong that our oceans start to evaporate.
Not very reassuring is it...
While you are correct if we can't figure out space travel within the next 500 million years we deserve to die out.
On June 29 2010 09:46 drewcifer wrote: Anyone predicting how the world is going to end is just playing fantasy with themselves. Has nothing to do with science or anything tangible.
r u kidding me?
when the earth was a lush and fertile planet and had mad dinosaurs roaming, a piece of rock just 6 mile wide changed all that. it hit with the force of 10,000 nukes, made a trillion tons of dirt and rock go into the atmosfere like a suffocating blanket of dust. the sun was powerless to penetrate that shit for a thousand years. it happened before. it will happen again. it's just a question.. of WHEN.
supposedly an even larger global extinction was caused by a massive Super Volcano erupting that wiped out something like 95-99% of all species and life (don't recall the exact numbers)
dude, if an asteroid the size of texas hit the pacific ocean, it'd be a global killer. the end of mankind. doesn't matter where it hit, nothing would survive. not even bacteria. it'll create a tusnami 3 mile high and travel 1000 mph... cover california to denver, wiping out japan and australia. half the world population incinerated by the heat blast, the rest freeze to death from nuclear winter.
u think a puny volcano would be able to top that? we would be able to see a volcano eruption from years away. asteroid, we have no chance. NASA's object collision budget is $1 million. that lets them track 3% of the sky, and no offense sir, but it's a big ass sky.
nanotechnology. At the moment governments can quite easily protect nukes from crazzzy people. But in the future it may be possible for nukes to be handheld devices. There may be no privacy, nano cameras
On June 29 2010 09:46 drewcifer wrote: Anyone predicting how the world is going to end is just playing fantasy with themselves. Has nothing to do with science or anything tangible.
r u kidding me?
when the earth was a lush and fertile planet and had mad dinosaurs roaming, a piece of rock just 6 mile wide changed all that. it hit with the force of 10,000 nukes, made a trillion tons of dirt and rock go into the atmosfere like a suffocating blanket of dust. the sun was powerless to penetrate that shit for a thousand years. it happened before. it will happen again. it's just a question.. of WHEN.
We have usable brains though...Human beings are a pretty hearty species, i'm fairly certain at least a few of our kind would survive something like this.
survive? no way. we can't let it hit earth...
for the first time in the history of the planet a species has the technology to prevent its own extinction, and ur telling me u just want to survive? i would take this asteroid head on. we humans have a thirst for excellence, for knowledge, every step up the ladder of science, ever reach into space, all our combined modern tech and imagination, even the wars that we fought. this gives us the tools to fight this asteroid.
i believe not only can we beat this asteroid, we'd kick its ass right back into space. bring it on.
On June 29 2010 09:46 drewcifer wrote: Anyone predicting how the world is going to end is just playing fantasy with themselves. Has nothing to do with science or anything tangible.
r u kidding me?
when the earth was a lush and fertile planet and had mad dinosaurs roaming, a piece of rock just 6 mile wide changed all that. it hit with the force of 10,000 nukes, made a trillion tons of dirt and rock go into the atmosfere like a suffocating blanket of dust. the sun was powerless to penetrate that shit for a thousand years. it happened before. it will happen again. it's just a question.. of WHEN.
supposedly an even larger global extinction was caused by a massive Super Volcano erupting that wiped out something like 95-99% of all species and life (don't recall the exact numbers)
dude, if an asteroid the size of texas hit the pacific ocean, it'd be a global killer. the end of mankind. doesn't matter where it hit, nothing would survive. not even bacteria. it'll create a tusnami 3 mile high and travel 1000 mph... cover california to denver, wiping out japan and australia. half the world population incinerated by the heat blast, the rest freeze to death from nuclear winter.
u think a puny volcano would be able to top that? we would be able to see a volcano eruption from years away. asteroid, we have no chance. NASA's object collision budget is $1 million. that lets them track 3% of the sky, and no offense sir, but it's a big ass sky.
$1 million lets them track 3% of the sky. So by your logic 33 million would let us track 100% of the sky... The GDP of U.S. >> 10 trillion. I'd ask you to do the math, but you're clearly not capable, you little troll, you.
I don't think any nation wants a nuclear doomsday. As such it will be unlikely that anyone will use more than a few in the coming years.
Some catastrophic disasters happen at regular intervals. For example we are overdue for supervolcanic eruptions and large asteroids, however since they happen so infrequently, it is not likely that they will happen soon.
Therefore if doomsday does occur, it will probably be human generated. I don't think nanotechnology would really be used to kill everyone, unless it were designed to eat stuff and replicate like in that Justice League Episode and many other sci fi shows! :D
In addition, we always hear about how superbugs could be catastrophic. However we are not really that familiar with how likely contagious, deadly, latent superbugs are to develop. Since it has not happened yet, I will assume it is not too likely.
Therefore I believe if mankind ends, it will probably be due to a robotic transformation, like the technological singularity those maniacs are always driveling about. I don't know what would happen in the brief moments where humanity makes its next big leap in evolution.
I think to completely destroy humanity, it'll need to be something that completely wipes out higher organisms on earth. mostly something on a huge scale (asteroid, gamma ray burst). don't think nukes will do it unless people just go totally apeshit with em
On June 29 2010 09:46 drewcifer wrote: Anyone predicting how the world is going to end is just playing fantasy with themselves. Has nothing to do with science or anything tangible.
r u kidding me?
when the earth was a lush and fertile planet and had mad dinosaurs roaming, a piece of rock just 6 mile wide changed all that. it hit with the force of 10,000 nukes, made a trillion tons of dirt and rock go into the atmosfere like a suffocating blanket of dust. the sun was powerless to penetrate that shit for a thousand years. it happened before. it will happen again. it's just a question.. of WHEN.
supposedly an even larger global extinction was caused by a massive Super Volcano erupting that wiped out something like 95-99% of all species and life (don't recall the exact numbers)
dude, if an asteroid the size of texas hit the pacific ocean, it'd be a global killer. the end of mankind. doesn't matter where it hit, nothing would survive. not even bacteria. it'll create a tusnami 3 mile high and travel 1000 mph... cover california to denver, wiping out japan and australia. half the world population incinerated by the heat blast, the rest freeze to death from nuclear winter.
u think a puny volcano would be able to top that? we would be able to see a volcano eruption from years away. asteroid, we have no chance. NASA's object collision budget is $1 million. that lets them track 3% of the sky, and no offense sir, but it's a big ass sky.
$1 million lets them track 3% of the sky. So by your logic 33 million would let us track 100% of the sky... The GDP of U.S. >> 10 trillion. I'd ask you to do the math, but you're clearly not capable, you little troll, you.
it obviously doesn't scale linearly, have ever read a nasa field manual? at nasa, they don't take chances. they double up on everything. obviously, we'd rely on a network of observatories around the world. whoever spots the asteroid first would report it (and get to name it).
Many believe that our sins will be cleansed away in the bathing of God's fiery wrath, probably because we support gay rights. Those people are often the same people who believe we should defend ourselves by having nukes.
Basically, the world won't end if we get rid of religious people.
I think the random things are more likely, asteroid, volcanoes etc. I think as time goes by the nukes might become less "MAD"-y, as SDI type programs could become less expensive. All of them of course are possibilities, some will happen if we make certain mistakes like the with super bugs. There is one scenario that was kind of left out although internal struggle pretty much covers it. I'll leave you with a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. I like for this subject:
"Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the billions who are its victims. "
I think this applies well to most of the problems we already know how to fix
On June 29 2010 10:21 hejakev wrote: Many believe that our sins will be cleansed away in the bathing of God's fiery wrath, probably because we support gay rights. Those people are often the same people who believe we should defend ourselves by having nukes.
Basically, the world won't end if we get rid of religious people.
On June 29 2010 10:19 nicoaldo wrote: The question is who is going to livestream it,
lol livestream
nobody would ever know. nasa would be on full scale military alert. only nine telescopes in the world can spot such an that can spot such an asteroid, and nasa controls eight of them. the public wouldn't find out until right before the shuttle mission launch.
On June 29 2010 10:21 hejakev wrote: Many believe that our sins will be cleansed away in the bathing of God's fiery wrath, probably because we support gay rights. Those people are often the same people who believe we should defend ourselves by having nukes.
Basically, the world won't end if we get rid of religious people.
Yeah. Let's get at them with nukes!
lol a nuke would never work vs an asteroid. if u consider the target, the composition, the dimensions, and sheer velocity, u could fire every nuke at it and itd just smile at u and keep on coming
On June 29 2010 09:46 drewcifer wrote: Anyone predicting how the world is going to end is just playing fantasy with themselves. Has nothing to do with science or anything tangible.
r u kidding me?
when the earth was a lush and fertile planet and had mad dinosaurs roaming, a piece of rock just 6 mile wide changed all that. it hit with the force of 10,000 nukes, made a trillion tons of dirt and rock go into the atmosfere like a suffocating blanket of dust. the sun was powerless to penetrate that shit for a thousand years. it happened before. it will happen again. it's just a question.. of WHEN.
Read my post...I didn't say mankind couldn't be wiped out by any of the mentioned opinions... I said that they are only opinions.
On June 29 2010 09:46 drewcifer wrote: Anyone predicting how the world is going to end is just playing fantasy with themselves. Has nothing to do with science or anything tangible.
r u kidding me?
when the earth was a lush and fertile planet and had mad dinosaurs roaming, a piece of rock just 6 mile wide changed all that. it hit with the force of 10,000 nukes, made a trillion tons of dirt and rock go into the atmosfere like a suffocating blanket of dust. the sun was powerless to penetrate that shit for a thousand years. it happened before. it will happen again. it's just a question.. of WHEN.
Read my post...I didn't say mankind couldn't be wiped out by any of the mentioned opinions... I said that they are only opinions.
yeah well, an asteroid would be as real as it gets. its coming. right now. right for us, at 22,000 miles per hour. not a soul on earth can hide from it.
if anythings gonna kill us its going to be astroids. no doubt whatsoever...
Nukes, NO1 WILL EVER NUKE the whole world. its simply impossible, and the person that had the heart to do such a thing is eather dead or hiding in a cave in pakistan. and he doesnt have the recources nor the power to do such a thing.
in 100-300 years? who knows, with the advancement within technology we might even not be living on this planet. STAR WARZ INC YOYO! <-- irrelevant but ture, i do belive that within 50-100 years wel have the technology to manage to get to a planet where we'l have new recources and so on. call me a retard but this isnt out of reach if u think about how far wev gotten over the past 100 years.
And even the astroid thing is kinda unreal aswell, seeing as unless we get hit within 50 years ++ wel be able to stop those things, SIENCE WILL SAVE US ALL. + Show Spoiler +
if my INSANE theory doesnt happen, then yea. wel die to a astroid or kill ourselves somehow. (NOT GLOBAL WARMING THO)
On June 29 2010 09:46 drewcifer wrote: Anyone predicting how the world is going to end is just playing fantasy with themselves. Has nothing to do with science or anything tangible.
r u kidding me?
when the earth was a lush and fertile planet and had mad dinosaurs roaming, a piece of rock just 6 mile wide changed all that. it hit with the force of 10,000 nukes, made a trillion tons of dirt and rock go into the atmosfere like a suffocating blanket of dust. the sun was powerless to penetrate that shit for a thousand years. it happened before. it will happen again. it's just a question.. of WHEN.
Read my post...I didn't say mankind couldn't be wiped out by any of the mentioned opinions... I said that they are only opinions.
yeah well, an asteroid would be as real as it gets. its coming. right now. right for us, at 22,000 miles per hour. not a soul on earth can hide from it.
lol, we have perfect control over which asteroids are getting close to us and I think it's around 2037 there's a slight chance that an asteroid can crash on earth, but if it's a big enough chance we will obviously take counter measures.
On June 29 2010 09:46 drewcifer wrote: Anyone predicting how the world is going to end is just playing fantasy with themselves. Has nothing to do with science or anything tangible.
r u kidding me?
when the earth was a lush and fertile planet and had mad dinosaurs roaming, a piece of rock just 6 mile wide changed all that. it hit with the force of 10,000 nukes, made a trillion tons of dirt and rock go into the atmosfere like a suffocating blanket of dust. the sun was powerless to penetrate that shit for a thousand years. it happened before. it will happen again. it's just a question.. of WHEN.
supposedly an even larger global extinction was caused by a massive Super Volcano erupting that wiped out something like 95-99% of all species and life (don't recall the exact numbers)
dude, if an asteroid the size of texas hit the pacific ocean, it'd be a global killer. the end of mankind. doesn't matter where it hit, nothing would survive. not even bacteria. it'll create a tusnami 3 mile high and travel 1000 mph... cover california to denver, wiping out japan and australia. half the world population incinerated by the heat blast, the rest freeze to death from nuclear winter.
u think a puny volcano would be able to top that? we would be able to see a volcano eruption from years away. asteroid, we have no chance. NASA's object collision budget is $1 million. that lets them track 3% of the sky, and no offense sir, but it's a big ass sky.
what? your post was one big straw man fallacy
I merely said that the asteroid that hit the Earth did not cause the largest extinction we know of, a Super Volcano did
a celestial object obviously has more potential to destroy the earth than a volcano, but you wouldn't call it "puny" if you knew anything about Super Volcanos
all i have to say about superbugs is that we 'll just do phage therapy. The Soviets had no access to antibiotics for quite some time, so they instead developed the use of bacteriophages (viruses that attack bacteria) as a way of curing bacterial infections. You really don't want to hear what they did to get the viruses, though.
Anyways, bacteria that are immune to antibiotics suffer from certain flaws that their brethren do not have-because they have immunity to certain molecules due to either receptor blocking or changes in the cell membrane, they are forced to develop more resources in defense, and as a result cannot multiply as quickly. In addition, investing heavily in one sort of defense means that they are even more vulnerable to other types of attack.
On June 29 2010 11:00 GGTeMpLaR wrote: I merely said that the asteroid that hit the Earth did not cause the largest extinction we know of, a Super Volcano did
On June 29 2010 10:56 danl9rm wrote: superbugs made it to the list? along with "religious stuff?"
r u srs?
stupid poll.
A.Superbugs=New strains of bacteria that have developed resistance to current medical technology.
B.Some people, believe it or not, believe in "the rapture" and other religious ends to the world.
C.Think before you post.
A. those are not bugs.
B. "the rapture" is not world ending. this does not make sense.
C. ditto? the op and subsequent poll seem ill-informed. hence, me -> 'stupid poll'
A. It's a commonly used term... Seriously, did you think I was talking about massive insects? A quick google search would have ended your confusion.
B. Erm... Some Christians believe that God's chosen people will be "warped away" during a "rapture," and the rest of humanity is doomed to the apocalypse. I would call that world ending.
Have you guys ever heard of Webbot? Some call it a pseudoscience, claiming it's too vague to accurately depict future disasters, however Webbot has predicted certain events such as 9/11 nonetheless. Sadly, Webbot is predicting a very grim remainder of 2010 for us, as seen in the link below:
What I can reasonably conclude is that if a hurricane ever hits the Gulf oil spill directly the U.S. uld be in for a life-threatening crisis because of toxic rain. That's right, apparently the oil is evaporating into the atmosphere along with other chemicals used by BP and it's mixing with the rain in states bordering the Gulf of Mexico. If you search up propheticseer on youtube, you can watch his videoes where he covers this extensively, even including home video clips of U.S. citizens detailing oil in their front lawns and streets. (Note: I should mention that the Prophetic Seer often goes into religious rants, which is obviously subjective to your beliefs, but he still provides some very disconcerting facts.)
and the rest of humanity is doomed to the apocalypse. I would call that world ending.
That is not a part of the rapture.
I quote wikipedia: Armageddon (Ancient Greek: Ἁρμαγεδών Harmagedōn, Arabic أرمجدون, Hebrew: הר מגידו har məgiddô, Late Latin: Armagedōn) is the site of an epic battle associated with the end time prophecies of the Abrahamic religions.
According to some premillennial Christian interpretations, the Messiah, the "Lamb", Jesus Christ, will return to earth and defeat the Antichrist (the "beast") in the battle of Armageddon. Then Satan will be put into the bottomless pit or abyss for 1,000 years, known as the Millennial age. After being released from the abyss, Satan will gather Gog and Magog from the four corners of the earth. They will encamp surrounding the holy ones and the "beloved city". Fire will come down from God, out of heaven and devour Gog and Magog after the Millenium, and the Devil who deceived them is thrown into Gehenna (the lake of fire and brimstone) where the Beast and the False Prophet have been since just before the 1,000 years.
The word Armageddon COMES FROM Christianity and the Rapture.
On June 29 2010 11:10 Try wrote: B. Erm... Some Christians believe that God's chosen people will be "warped away" during a "rapture,"
That is the rapture.
and the rest of humanity is doomed to the apocalypse. I would call that world ending.
That is not a part of the rapture.
I quote wikipedia: Armageddon (Ancient Greek: Ἁρμαγεδών Harmagedōn, Arabic أرمجدون, Hebrew: הר מגידו har məgiddô, Late Latin: Armagedōn) is the site of an epic battle associated with the end time prophecies of the Abrahamic religions.
According to some premillennial Christian interpretations, the Messiah, the "Lamb", Jesus Christ, will return to earth and defeat the Antichrist (the "beast") in the battle of Armageddon. Then Satan will be put into the bottomless pit or abyss for 1,000 years, known as the Millennial age. After being released from the abyss, Satan will gather Gog and Magog from the four corners of the earth. They will encamp surrounding the holy ones and the "beloved city". Fire will come down from God, out of heaven and devour Gog and Magog after the Millenium, and the Devil who deceived them is thrown into Gehenna (the lake of fire and brimstone) where the Beast and the False Prophet have been since just before the 1,000 years.
The word Armageddon COMES FROM Christianity and the Rapture.
religion is scary man... if any news of armageddon got out, there'd be an overnight breakdown of basic social services worldwide... rioting, mass hysteria. total chaos. u can imagine. basically the worst parts of the bible.
On June 29 2010 11:10 Try wrote: B. Erm... Some Christians believe that God's chosen people will be "warped away" during a "rapture,"
That is the rapture.
and the rest of humanity is doomed to the apocalypse. I would call that world ending.
That is not a part of the rapture.
I quote wikipedia: Armageddon (Ancient Greek: Ἁρμαγεδών Harmagedōn, Arabic أرمجدون, Hebrew: הר מגידו har məgiddô, Late Latin: Armagedōn) is the site of an epic battle associated with the end time prophecies of the Abrahamic religions.
According to some premillennial Christian interpretations, the Messiah, the "Lamb", Jesus Christ, will return to earth and defeat the Antichrist (the "beast") in the battle of Armageddon. Then Satan will be put into the bottomless pit or abyss for 1,000 years, known as the Millennial age. After being released from the abyss, Satan will gather Gog and Magog from the four corners of the earth. They will encamp surrounding the holy ones and the "beloved city". Fire will come down from God, out of heaven and devour Gog and Magog after the Millenium, and the Devil who deceived them is thrown into Gehenna (the lake of fire and brimstone) where the Beast and the False Prophet have been since just before the 1,000 years.
The word Armageddon COMES FROM Christianity and the Rapture.
That is all irrelevant. The word "rapture" refers only to the spiriting away of the faithful. What about that do you not understand?
On June 29 2010 11:10 Try wrote: B. Erm... Some Christians believe that God's chosen people will be "warped away" during a "rapture,"
That is the rapture.
and the rest of humanity is doomed to the apocalypse. I would call that world ending.
That is not a part of the rapture.
I quote wikipedia: Armageddon (Ancient Greek: Ἁρμαγεδών Harmagedōn, Arabic أرمجدون, Hebrew: הר מגידו har məgiddô, Late Latin: Armagedōn) is the site of an epic battle associated with the end time prophecies of the Abrahamic religions.
According to some premillennial Christian interpretations, the Messiah, the "Lamb", Jesus Christ, will return to earth and defeat the Antichrist (the "beast") in the battle of Armageddon. Then Satan will be put into the bottomless pit or abyss for 1,000 years, known as the Millennial age. After being released from the abyss, Satan will gather Gog and Magog from the four corners of the earth. They will encamp surrounding the holy ones and the "beloved city". Fire will come down from God, out of heaven and devour Gog and Magog after the Millenium, and the Devil who deceived them is thrown into Gehenna (the lake of fire and brimstone) where the Beast and the False Prophet have been since just before the 1,000 years.
The word Armageddon COMES FROM Christianity and the Rapture.
That is all irrelevant. The word "rapture" refers only to the spiriting away of the faithful. What about that do you not understand?
Sorry if I'm not using precise Christian terminology. Normally, people refer to the rapture as both the rapture and the sequence of events that happen afterwards. Anyways, I don't see how this entire argument is even relevant, cause it all falls under "religious stuff," the original poll option. Nitpick at my jargon all you like. I don't see why you're arguing me on this.
How didn't OP mention the food and water scarcity? Is wrong to mention that only 1/3 people in the world have access to clean, fresh water. Price is going up quickly. You can guess what comes next...
On June 29 2010 11:10 Try wrote: B. Erm... Some Christians believe that God's chosen people will be "warped away" during a "rapture,"
That is the rapture.
and the rest of humanity is doomed to the apocalypse. I would call that world ending.
That is not a part of the rapture.
I quote wikipedia: Armageddon (Ancient Greek: Ἁρμαγεδών Harmagedōn, Arabic أرمجدون, Hebrew: הר מגידו har məgiddô, Late Latin: Armagedōn) is the site of an epic battle associated with the end time prophecies of the Abrahamic religions.
According to some premillennial Christian interpretations, the Messiah, the "Lamb", Jesus Christ, will return to earth and defeat the Antichrist (the "beast") in the battle of Armageddon. Then Satan will be put into the bottomless pit or abyss for 1,000 years, known as the Millennial age. After being released from the abyss, Satan will gather Gog and Magog from the four corners of the earth. They will encamp surrounding the holy ones and the "beloved city". Fire will come down from God, out of heaven and devour Gog and Magog after the Millenium, and the Devil who deceived them is thrown into Gehenna (the lake of fire and brimstone) where the Beast and the False Prophet have been since just before the 1,000 years.
The word Armageddon COMES FROM Christianity and the Rapture.
religion is scary man... if any news of armageddon got out, there'd be an overnight breakdown of basic social services worldwide... rioting, mass hysteria. total chaos. u can imagine. basically the worst parts of the bible.
I don't agree. The Bible calls this day "Armageddon" - the end of all things. And yet, for the first time in the history of the planet, a species has the technology to prevent its own extinction. Everyone needs to know that everything that can be done to prevent this disaster will be called into service. The human thirst for excellence, knowledge; every step up the ladder of science; every adventurous reach into space; all of our combined modern technologies and imaginations; even the wars that we've fought have provided us the tools to wage this terrible battle. Through all of the chaos that is our history; through all of the wrongs and the discord; through all of the pain and suffering; through all of our times, there is one thing that has nourished our souls, and elevated our species above its origins, and that is our courage.
or it turns out there are real wizards and a dark wizard named Tom Marvolo Riddle and this random famous one named Harry have a duel around the world destroying everything.
i think so many people believe in doomsday scenarios because it makes them feel special, i mean it would be much cooler to be part of the "last generation" than just "a" generation somwhere in the middle of endless time.
but that said, if we would experience a doomsday i hope it will be because of a zombie apocalypse. slashing zombies in the last hours/days/years of my life would compesate pretty well for the loss of humanity imho.
Hey guys, here's the link to the Prophetic Seer I talked about in my post on bottom of page 3. Like I said earlier, there's a lot of religious doomsday talk which I tend to ignore, however he does talk about some very strange and unsettling topics such as toxic rain and mass evacuations, as seen below in the links.
If anything is going to do us in it is an asteroid. The only nations capable of starting a nuclear war bad enough to kill all of us is the US Russia. Global warming might cause some major issues, and our planet is getting overpopulated quickly, but even if the earth warms up significantly and we rape and pillage it to our hearts content, we will reach a point at which our own survival becomes and issue, and our population will fall to a point where the earth can still sustain us. Extinction by those means isn't really viable. The whole super-bug thing is also unlikely to kill all of us. Modern society is quite good at quarantining and preventing travel to control disease, and medicine is at the point where the number of untreatable viruses that can kill you are pretty small, and none of them are easily transmitted enough to spread to every single human before killing the host.
I'll be long dead before any of this shit happens (hopefully).
Global warming 100%..For the end of man-kind / most animals unable to adapt.. And then there will be an ice age, It will melt and start all over again.. That or A rock hits the earth and GG, no re.
On June 29 2010 09:46 drewcifer wrote: Anyone predicting how the world is going to end is just playing fantasy with themselves. Has nothing to do with science or anything tangible.
I particularly think the human race will be wiped out by dolphins, the 2nd most intelligent creature on the planet atm.
On June 29 2010 10:56 danl9rm wrote: superbugs made it to the list? along with "religious stuff?"
r u srs?
stupid poll.
A.Superbugs=New strains of bacteria that have developed resistance to current medical technology.
B.Some people, believe it or not, believe in "the rapture" and other religious ends to the world.
C.Think before you post.
A. those are not bugs.
B. "the rapture" is not world ending. this does not make sense.
C. ditto? the op and subsequent poll seem ill-informed. hence, me -> 'stupid poll'
A. It's a commonly used term... Seriously, did you think I was talking about massive insects? A quick google search would have ended your confusion.
B. Erm... Some Christians believe that God's chosen people will be "warped away" during a "rapture," and the rest of humanity is doomed to the apocalypse. I would call that world ending.
did anyone else notice that a lot of people are posting armageddon quotes in this topic??? Honestly, we are all just guessing and I have no clue what to expect will happen, but I find it more likely that some sort of plague or disease will occur than some asteroid.
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