It's strange that "sun blows up" gets the most clicks given that by the time that happens, the earth will be so hot that we won't be able to live on it... So, we'll be dead or gone from Earth well before the sun blows up.

Gardel

Mexico220 Posts

May 21 2011 19:09 GMT

#42

Massive earthquake!!

Brandish

United States339 Posts

May 21 2011 19:13 GMT

#43

Howcome the world running out of resources isn't a choice? with the current population growth and how fast people are consuming food oil etc It seems like the most plausible cause of the end of the world.

jello_biafra

United Kingdom6642 Posts

May 21 2011 19:14 GMT

#44

http://www.cracked.com/article_16817_5-cosmic-events-that-could-kill-you-before-lunch.html
^a good list of potentially planet ending disasters.

I personally doubt that humanity will destroy itself by either nuclear war or polluting the planet and obviously religious raptures or apocalypses are just absurd, by far and away the most likely fate of the planet will be the sun obliterating it and if it isn't that it will be some other horrific cosmic event.

OTIX

Sweden491 Posts

May 21 2011 19:14 GMT

#45

"Grey goo" is missing from the poll. As our technology becomes more advanced it will be easier and easier to cause an apocalypse. Eventually some fanatic will be successful and if mankind hasn't spread to multiple worlds by then we're fucked.

ThePieRate

United States263 Posts

May 21 2011 19:18 GMT

#46

Black hole, nuff said.

Nightfall.589

Canada766 Posts

May 21 2011 19:21 GMT

#47

As time goes on, stars will continue to be born from gas clouds, but as they burn out, they will either stay behind as either dwarf stars, or in case of a supernova, black holes. Galaxies will, due to gravitational attraction, merge into local galactic clusters, which will move further and further away from eachother. After a point, due to the expansion of the universe, and red shift, no galactic cluster will be able to observe another.

With less and less free hydrogen remaining in the universe, there will come a time when stars will no longer be born. Eventually, the last dwarf star will burn out, leaving the universe in complete darkness.

Black holes, dead stars, and the occasional bits of rock will interact with eachother in such a way that eventually, most dead stars will be ejected out of their galactic clusters, leaving behind small clusters of black holes, which will merge into supermassive black holes. Eventually, even the black holes will evaporate, due to Hawking radiation.

The only thing that will be left behind is a diffuse, cold, chaotic soup of elementary particles, with the occasional stellar husk.

At least, that's how the world ends, if the universe is expanding.

yoshi_yoshi

United States440 Posts

May 21 2011 19:21 GMT

#48

I voted for nuclear but kinda regret it. A lot of these options will kill 99.9999...% of people but don't account for the remotely located people, like:
- remote island areas
- cruise ships
- war ships
- underground bunkers with years of provisions

Zombies and viruses will have a hard time getting to those areas.

Randomaccount#77123

United States5003 Posts

May 21 2011 19:22 GMT

#49

--- Nuked ---

Bibdy

United States3481 Posts

May 21 2011 19:22 GMT

#50

My money's on gamma ray burst.

That or robot takeover/technological singularity.

Cenja

Sweden498 Posts

May 21 2011 19:22 GMT

#51

I don't think humanity still will be around when the sun destroys the earth.
Not sure what will wipe out humanity however, propably astroid or somekind of virus/disease.

politik

409 Posts

May 21 2011 19:23 GMT

#52

The sun won't expire for billions of years still, I think people underestimate the amount of time that is. Humans have gone from hunter/gatherer to current technology in like 1/100000 of that time.

Raavi

Denmark156 Posts

May 21 2011 19:25 GMT

#53

Brain = Asteroid/Meteor Apocalypse
Heart = Zombies!!

VPC

United States135 Posts

May 21 2011 19:32 GMT

#54

It wont because we are apart of something bigger that cannot be explained by a bible or book. Cheers to the religious people though.

hypercube

Hungary2735 Posts

May 21 2011 19:36 GMT

#55

So many options, so few votes. Could be a nearby supernova or GRB. AI taking over the world and killing all humans. Some sort of massive industrial accident. But my favourite is an ecological collapse that wipes out bacteria crucial to our survival.

I think the chances of humans living to the end of the sun's life is almost nil. And if we do make it that far it won't be a problem to survive that too.

MidKnight

Lithuania884 Posts

May 21 2011 19:37 GMT

#56

I honestly doubt humanity will be able to survive until sun's fuel runs out. That's millions of years. I'm quite sure we are a lot more likely kill each other with some ridiculous weapons, virus, asteroids, hell, even alien invasion seems more likely.

Kamais_Ookin

Canada4218 Posts

May 21 2011 19:38 GMT

#57

World will die from the sun blowing up, but the human race dies way before that day ever comes from ZOMBIES!

Phonics

114 Posts

May 21 2011 19:40 GMT

#58

Most like the US will cause the apocalypse in one way or another.

hypercube

Hungary2735 Posts

May 21 2011 19:42 GMT

#59

On May 22 2011 04:37 MidKnight wrote:
I honestly doubt humanity will be able to survive until sun's fuel runs out. That's millions of years. I'm quite sure we are a lot more likely kill each other with some ridiculous weapons, virus, asteroids, hell, even alien invasion seems more likely.

More like billions. We're talking about a million times the age of human civilization.

blackone

Germany1314 Posts

May 21 2011 19:43 GMT

#60

1. Zombie Apocalypse obv.
2. The world is ending in October, 05/21 is only the rapture. You guys are so silly, you're not really listening to the one guy who knows the future!