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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.
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Will it be these that will end life as we know it?
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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
Discuss.
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asteroid for sure. that shit is so damn likely.
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Sure, it could happen, but I have no reason to think that it will happen.
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Well first there are ganna be 4 horsemen then....nah i kid
Super bugs is my bet . They may not cause Armageddon but will at least hurt the populas
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asteroid seems to be the only reasonable choice. Maybe nukes.
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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.
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Solar flare needs to be an option
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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.
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what about the sun going boom
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On June 29 2010 09:35 Perguvious wrote:
what about the sun going boom
That won't happen in out lifetime.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Only 50% of Team Liquid are sane? That's actually worse than I had predicted.
EDIT: Sorry I should assume 40% of you aren't taking the poll seriously.
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On June 29 2010 09:51 Chuiu wrote:
Only 50% of Team Liquid are sane? That's actually worse than I had predicted.
Wow Really? I dunno I think it's blind optimism to say that it won't but that's just me I guess.
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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. ^^
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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.
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