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+ Show Spoiler +On July 07 2009 17:52 Aegraen wrote:Show nested quote +On July 07 2009 17:46 blue_arrow wrote:On July 07 2009 17:09 Aegraen wrote:On July 07 2009 16:51 HuskyTheHusky wrote:On July 07 2009 16:49 blue_arrow wrote:On July 07 2009 16:47 HuskyTheHusky wrote:On July 07 2009 16:41 Aegraen wrote:On July 07 2009 16:23 DownMaxX wrote:
I don't know about the world itself, but I think the next time humanity will be on the brink of extinction will be from a viral pandemic. We have far too great numbers for this to ever be the cause of our extinction. Even if just 1% of the population were immune, that is still at this time: 75 Million people, immune, let alone those that survived that weren't immune. There has never, ever, been in the history of mankind a virus that was 99% lethal. Even the bubonic plague in the best of conditions was on the order of 50% lethal. This. Our extinction will be man-made. We are too smart to be wiped out by virtually anything else. The only natural disaster I can see that would cause human extinction is a giant meteor. But honestly I think we'd have the brainpower around the world to find ways of stopping it. If nothing else we'd throw every single space-capable rocket at it and see what happens. Your ideas of disasters are so small-scaled Well I guess this is a thread having to do with 2012 so that's when all unreasonable hell breaks loose. In that case we're probably all going to get ran over by some superior race and turned into slaves D: Lol, I seem to recall the UED kicking ass. Anyways, we're more likely to be wiped out by a super volcano (Ala, Yellowstone), than a comet or asteroid. No stopping the volcano, and we can arguably, stop an asteroid right now. A comet? Doubtful, but not out of the realm of possibility. If we can manage to get past that, the only thing that could wipe us out is either another sentient species bent on our destruction, or the enivatable death of the universe. (Though this is all within the realm of our limited knowledge, who knows what magnificent discoveries can be made in billions of years). what about extremely close supernovae, black holes/almost-any-massive-bodies passing through our solar system, or any other large-scale cosmic events that occur nearby? also, asteroids and other minor bodies don't have to collide directly with the earth to screw us over. The asteroids could modify the orbits of other planets, which in turn destabilize our own orbit, thus possibly throwing our planet out of the extremely narrow habitable zone that we are currently residing in. The planets with modified orbits could potentially collide with Earth as well; a planetary collision between us and any planet or dwarf planet within the solar system would instantaneously wipe out all life on earth. Even without interference, the orbits in our solar system aint that stable to begin with. The sun's gonna expand, but a billion or two years before that it's gonna become too hot anyways for life as we know it to exist on Earth. Gamma ray bursts aimed toward the earth happen once every billion years or so. Somethings going to give and all life is gonna get removed from the Earth sooner or later. All of these scenarios are enough to wipe out life on earth, don't even talk about wiping out a measly species thats only been in existence for a blink of an eye in the context of the cosmic timescale. Also, this is why we gotta get our asses movin into space. Time is ticking for life on this fragile little world. =p The Earth is far from being fragile. We've been through all of those scenarios you presented (Save for the sun becoming a red giant) and the earth and life, is still here. In due time. Hell, in 10,000 years we'll be living throughout the universe, if we happen to survive to that time. Once we reach the colonization of the universe milestone we are all but guaranteed survival as a species until the universe itself dies, or becomes incapable of supporting life.
ok, so maybe some of the scenarios i outlined won't kill off all life on earth, or the entirety of earth itself, but still, the death of our species is practically guaranteed in all the situations i described.
also, i dont think life existed the last time we had a massive planetary collision (formation of the moon), humans werent around for the last time earth was hit by a gamma ray burst (possibly the reason for the Ordovician extinction event), the destabilizing orbits of the planets is still an ongoing thing (and thus like the expansion of the sun, it still hasnt happened), i dont think a black hole has yet to pass through our solar system or even near it, the last time massive bodies were zipping in and out of our solar system was when the damned thing was still forming (and thus life obviously had not come into being), so what exactly do you mean by "we've been through all of those scenarios you presented"???
i agree that the larger the volume of space we colonize, the better the chances we get for the survival of our species. however, at the current rate that space travel technology is progressing, i don't think our species as we know it will exist in 10k years. everything from genetic engineering technologies to certain fields in nanotechnology to advances in computer technology (yeah i'm talking about artificial intelligences) are far outpacing the advances made in space travel. I doubt homo sapiens will still exist as is by the time five centuries have passed, let alone ten millenia.
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Not the world but whichever country get nuked by N.Korea will probably cease to exist.
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i think the maya calendar just ends at this date and this is why everyone thinks the world will end.
but i think it said something like the gods will come back to earth. maybe this means that some aliens will come back. some guys also think that our awareness will expand massively, as the middle of the milky way, the sun and the earth are on one line or something, and there will be x-ray-like things that change our minds.
then we know better about why we are living and that we are just a part of 'it'. also many people will go crazy because they can't dominate their expanded awareness.
when i'm thinking about this, this sounds like total rubbish. but who knows, it's funny to think about what could happen on 21st december 2012
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On July 07 2009 18:42 Garnet wrote:
Not the world but whichever country get nuked by N.Korea will probably cease to exist.
More like N.Korea will cease to exist.
The world will end when japan decides to use their gundams.
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On July 07 2009 16:15 sh02hp0869 wrote:
Zergs invasion.
I second this.
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Recent Uighurs issue leads to Muslim V China and this leads to the WW3.
Nuke, nuke, nuke, nuke, nuke.
Everyone's dead.
End of the world.
Only bugs survive.
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We'll look into the sky, the sun will disappear, the stars will disappear, the moon will fade out. Then a bright text rises up from the horizon all the way across the globe.
"The end."
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Quetzalcoatl will arrive from the eastern ocean and reclaim his city, and by ocean I mean space and by city I mean Earth. The Mesoamerican peoples were really smart so I'm sure their myths, which this whole debacle is based on, will come true!
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On July 07 2009 16:41 Aegraen wrote:Show nested quote +On July 07 2009 16:23 DownMaxX wrote:
I don't know about the world itself, but I think the next time humanity will be on the brink of extinction will be from a viral pandemic. We have far too great numbers for this to ever be the cause of our extinction. Even if just 1% of the population were immune, that is still at this time: 75 Million people, immune, let alone those that survived that weren't immune. There has never, ever, been in the history of mankind a virus that was 99% lethal. Even the bubonic plague in the best of conditions was on the order of 50% lethal.
Although i suppose its a terribad idea to quote and respond to this without reading the other 3 pages of the thread, Ebola Zaire is something like ~79% deadly, and immunity for it wears off very quickly, making multiple infections possible, meaning somebody who had multiple infections would have a 4% chance of surviving.
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The release of Starcraft II in South Korea will coincide with an invasion by North Korea.
Nuclear exchange inevitably occurs, then zerg invasion.
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On July 07 2009 19:02 imperator-xy wrote:
i think the maya calendar just ends at this date and this is why everyone thinks the world will end.
but i think it said something like the gods will come back to earth. maybe this means that some aliens will come back. some guys also think that our awareness will expand massively, as the middle of the milky way, the sun and the earth are on one line or something, and there will be x-ray-like things that change our minds.
then we know better about why we are living and that we are just a part of 'it'. also many people will go crazy because they can't dominate their expanded awareness.
when i'm thinking about this, this sounds like total rubbish. but who knows, it's funny to think about what could happen on 21st december 2012
Some wise guy just wanted a random date to make everyone panic and have end of the world parties and I will surely comply.
Nuclear war or bust, yo.
Probably the most interesting (in a morbid way, of course) would be like something from Children of Men (yet to read the book, but the movie is badass) where we know for sure of our impending doom and have a clock for it too. Total breakdown of society and evertying.
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Nations retaliate with nukes after they are hit (ala the Fukkatsu no Hi's Automated Reaction System (ARS) scenario, minus the MM-88 bullshit) or SUPRISE! a giant meteor crashes into Earth and we are clueless about it's impending impact.
Then there is the usual sudden climate shift. We screwed mother nature, now she's here to screw us.
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if im dying the world will end , yeah that how important i am .
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guy trying to save the world accidently does alt+q+q
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On July 07 2009 16:36 Aegraen wrote:The world will end when the Sun goes Red Giant. By that time however, man will be populated throughout the Universe. Man and life, is ill-fated we are destined to perish when the universe itself fades into the abyssmal black nothingness. As for 2012, rubbish 
I will laugh at your post when in a couple of years they announce a giant meteor will strike earth and kill us all...
no, i wont... ill cry probably, BUT that's how i think armageddon will look like
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people will take the proverb in my signature too seriously :D
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On July 07 2009 18:38 Foucault wrote:I love that video so much lol
damn you, you just made me watch it yet again... its hilarious
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NASA accientally sends a "pp" signal and we get banned by aliens.
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