Its not likely. Your thinking of a Gamma Ray Burst and it comes from the collision of Neutron Stars I think. I love Neutron Stars, they are so facinating. Sorry about the Physics orgy by the way.

Nah, you just need enough of those and it's gonna happen.

Spekulatius

Germany2413 Posts

May 21 2011 21:03 GMT

#103

Zombie apocalypse seems like the only fun way to go down...

SolaR-

United States2685 Posts

May 21 2011 21:03 GMT

#104

Asteroid or Nuclear obviously. The Sun is definitely a possibility but I think its foolish to think that we will last that long.

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Germany640 Posts

May 21 2011 21:05 GMT

#105

Well, the question is when "the world" will go down. Not the humanity! So I would say our sun will collapse.

fortheGG

United Kingdom1002 Posts

May 21 2011 21:05 GMT

#106

+ Show Spoiler +

(Vote): Everyone turns gay and we somehow forget how to do artificial insemination

voted for this then I realised we have hot_bid and his descendants

emythrel

United Kingdom2599 Posts

May 21 2011 21:11 GMT

#107

The human race will be dead or have moved to another planet long before the sun dies, it won't blow up anyways, its not big enough. It will expand to a red giant, lose a chunk of its mass in to space and settle down as a white dwarf. Leaving behind a very pretty planetary nebula

But before that happens it will get very hot and basically roast the Earth, in about 2 billion years.....

Thats how the world will end. Scientific fact.

How will human existence end? Who knows, could be an ice age, could be an impact event, could be nuclear war or a thousand other things.

emythrel

United Kingdom2599 Posts

May 21 2011 21:14 GMT

#108

On May 22 2011 03:17 Najda wrote:
I don't think a scenario can happen that will kill all 6/7 billion+ on the planet. Human will is so strong that there will always be a few survivors especially with all the disaster preparations and underground bunkers we have now. The only true end of the human race I see is the Sun blowing up but I voted for Asteroid/Meteor Apocalypse because that would be the most likely thing to kill 95%+ of humans; although a huge volcanic eruption is pretty likely too, but those sort of fit into the same category.

Doesn't matter how well you prepare, if a meteor/comet like the one that killed the dinosaurs hits.... whether you are underground or not at the time, eventually you will run out of food and all the things you used to eat will be long dead. Basically any event that kills off 90% of the species on Earth would kill all humans in the end, we are too big and need to many thing to survive.... only the smallest animals survive large extinction events.

alienQT

Switzerland55 Posts

May 21 2011 21:15 GMT

#109

well, i choose CERN (other) maybe a blackhole, because no others mention it yet and its in my country.
That and im not prepared for zombies =P

Jswizzy

United States791 Posts

May 21 2011 21:18 GMT

#110

More than 40% of American Christians according to a pew research poll believe the rapture will happen in the next 40 years.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7847625/Jesus-will-return-by-2050-say-40pc-of-Americans.html

Deranes

Germany75 Posts

May 21 2011 21:21 GMT

#111

I think we will just evolve or be replaced by another species. No idea when but probably well before the sun explodes or we are hit by a big enough astroid/meteor. Or we could wipe out almost all life on earth with some kind of technology, intentional or not.

flowSthead

1065 Posts

May 21 2011 21:28 GMT

#112

I wish there was an option for "Will never die. The Kwisatz Haderach will save us."

Mykill

Canada3402 Posts

May 21 2011 21:36 GMT

#113

god when that sun blows up =( sucks....

CruiseR

Poland4014 Posts

May 21 2011 21:40 GMT

#114

the 2 most probable ones are obv:
- asteroid
- nuclear apocalypse

Zilver

Finland282 Posts

May 21 2011 21:43 GMT

#115

I don't think the sun blowing up could end the human race, because before that we've been eliminated some other way or if we really do last for a billion years, then we'd have such technology and power to even move our earth and create our own sun, or be able to terraform another planet.

It'll be pretty hard to completely extinct the human race. If a massive nuclear war would happen there'd still be small areas that would be suitable for living. Or if a asteroid hit our planet we'd either be able to predict it many years ahead and be able to change its course by sending rockets close to it which will be able to pull the asteroid just a tiny bit for it to dodge the earth. Or if it hit, humans would still be able to survive underground in bunkers and the like.

I can't imagine a virus to end it all either, a small amount of people could isolate themselves from the rest and be able to survive until the virus has disappeared.

It would haft to be something totally unexpected like the earth's core cooling down for some kind of reason which will freeze us all to death, or something like all energy resources on the planet completely depletes, but that'd also be quite unlikely because there's so much energy able to be used(including sun power).

Kal_rA1

160 Posts

May 21 2011 21:45 GMT

#116

how come theres no generic 2012 option?

Meldrath

United States620 Posts

May 21 2011 21:46 GMT

#117

On May 22 2011 03:16 Pick wrote:
There is a big difference between world ending and human race ending.

The Sun going super nova will probably be the only thing to take out the planet.

As for humans... my money is on some kind of super virus.

Sun can't go super nova not enough mass for it to do so. It will bloat into a red giant star then burn out into a white dwarf. They do say that the sun will get more brighter and hotter befor it dies which will lead to mercury becoming consumed by fire and the earth will suffer the same fate... or possible just be so close to the run it will burn away our atomosphere and the earth will be a cozy 600 degree's on the surface.