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The end Or near end of the world?

The end Or near end of the world?

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Watching the TV Show Conspiracies the other week made me think to myself will the Earth ever come to an end??? I mean people have made predictions that A Nuclear War will cause the end of the world or a simple end via Human's creation an asteriod! But can you picture the day when suddenley BANG! You are dead everyone else is and so is the world....

Will The world be ever destryoed in years to come??

P.S. I've got the same feedback from my Theology Teacher and classmates! AND I DON'T WANT THE WORLD TO END!

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I believe the chances are the highest for an impact. Just a boulder of a few hundred meters straingt into an ocean is enough for not only causing big tidal waves (Big, as in waves of at easily a kilometer) followed by a years lasting 'winter'. This might easily kill 99% of current life.

IF a nucleair war will end life, it will mostly be deadly for the big mammals. The world will not end. The world just got rid of at least one dumb animal.

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Originally posted by Howell123
AND I DON'T WANT THE WORLD TO END!
Your world will end sooner or later, as we are all mortal. But life is close to impossible to exterminate. In one form or the other, no matter what we do to mother earth, life will prevail (even if only as frozen bacteria on an otherwise sterile planet).

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Uhm, that's not really very uplifting, is it?.. 😕

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Originally posted by Aiko
IF a nucleair war will end life, it will mostly be deadly for the big mammals. The world will not end. The world just got rid of at least one dumb animal.
You mean the animals who smoke for joy, left weights to show off and are capable of reading/writing but choose to waste this gift away..?

Good.

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Originally posted by Howell123
Watching the TV Show Conspiracies the other week made me think to myself will the Earth ever come to an end??? I mean people have made predictions that A Nuclear War will cause the end of the world or a simple end via Human's creation an asteriod! But can you picture the day when suddenley BANG! You are dead everyone else is and so is the world....

Will ...[text shortened]... the same feedback from my Theology Teacher and classmates! AND I DON'T WANT THE WORLD TO END!
You're right. We're not as invincible as we might think. Some of us haven't even mastered the use of capital letters.

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Originally posted by stocken
Your world will end sooner or later, as we are all mortal. But life is close to impossible to exterminate. In one form or the other, no matter what we do to mother earth, life will prevail (even if only as frozen bacteria on an otherwise sterile planet).
Well, actually, this planet has only about 5.000.000.000 years left. The sun is of middle age. But any life form whatsoever will not be able to experience the last few minutes on this planet. In, say a few 1.000.000.000 years when the sun gets an elderly, the sun will start to swell up, increasing radiation production, heating at least the solid rocky planets to quite a temperature of which no life will be able to overcome.

By the way, bacteria (even frozen) and sterile, that does not mix, does it?

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Originally posted by Howell123
Watching the TV Show Conspiracies the other week made me think to myself will the Earth ever come to an end??? I mean people have made predictions that A Nuclear War will cause the end of the world or a simple end via Human's creation an asteriod! But can you picture the day when suddenley BANG! You are dead everyone else is and so is the world....

Will ...[text shortened]... the same feedback from my Theology Teacher and classmates! AND I DON'T WANT THE WORLD TO END!
God I hope so! I've got several thousand rounds I'd like to burn through in some sort of post apocalyptic mutant show down. Nothing like killing mutants, raping livestock and pillaging survivors to get the ol'heart a pumping.

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Originally posted by Hand of Hecate
God I hope so! I've got several thousand rounds I'd like to burn through in some sort of post apocalyptic mutant show down. Nothing like killing mutants, raping livestock and pillaging survivors to get the ol'heart a pumping.
Nice to see you're back in your "happy place" again.

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Originally posted by Moldy Crow
Nice to see you're back in your "happy place" again.
At least I'm not advocating the wholesale slaughter of cats with high powered rifles.

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Originally posted by Hand of Hecate
At least I'm not advocating the wholesale slaughter of cats with high powered rifles.
I only do retail.

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Originally posted by Aiko
Well, actually, this planet has only about 5.000.000.000 years left. The sun is of middle age. But any life form whatsoever will not be able to experience the last few minutes on this planet. In, say a few 1.000.000.000 years when the sun gets an elderly, the sun will start to swell up, increasing radiation production, heating at least the solid rocky planets t ...[text shortened]... able to overcome.

By the way, bacteria (even frozen) and sterile, that does not mix, does it?
How do you know that's the end of life? For all you know, pieces of earth can be thrown into space as a meteor hits the ground, and then travel for millions of years before they hit a new planet's surface. The bacteria (frozen on the sterile piece of rock - see it now?) will then begin a new process of life as the atmosphere of the planet gets heated from the fumes of melted ice.

Or, it could be that I build my own spacerocket? And travel to a new solar system? Where I begin cloning myself into millions of various sizes? Some of me are bacteria sized? And some are, like, giants? But they're all me? And, like, we all love each other? Cause I do? And that would be great? Kinda?

I don't know. Could also be that it all ends, I suppose. I didn't consider the sun dying. Thanks for that. Now I can't sleep. I have to come up with a way to refuel the sun so that it never burns out. With my intelligence it should take about three billion years. 🙁

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Originally posted by stocken


Or, it could be that I build my own spacerocket? And travel to a new solar system? Where I begin cloning myself into millions of various sizes? Some of me are bacteria sized? And some are, like, giants? But they're all me? 🙁
Make sure none of your clones look like cats, or some rifle toting alien b@st@rd will blow you away.

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Originally posted by stocken
How do you know that's the end of life? For all you know, pieces of earth can be thrown into space as a meteor hits the ground, and then travel for millions of years before they hit a new planet's surface. The bacteria (frozen on the sterile piece of rock - see it now?) will then begin a new process of life as the atmosphere of the planet gets heated from the fumes of melted ice.
That will take a heck of a meteorite or comet. I don't think one of that size will come along. And if it does, it will have crash against Jupiter most likely because this planet has a bigger attraction due ot its size, and it is on the oudside 'lane' while circleing the sun compared to the earth.

But don't you worry, as men are exploring the univers the next few generations, chances are some earthly bacteria will make it to other places, contanminating it. You know men, always ready to polute and not taking responsibilities when there is a buck [euro, yen] to earn or save. It is cheaper to dumb a load of waist cargo in the direction of universal infinite and everything that comes across than it is to keep it on board or on planet. Poluting, it might be part of darwinism and the theory of evolution one of these days!

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Originally posted by Howell123
Watching the TV Show Conspiracies the other week made me think to myself will the Earth ever come to an end??? I mean people have made predictions that A Nuclear War will cause the end of the world or a simple end via Human's creation an asteriod! But can you picture the day when suddenley BANG! You are dead everyone else is and so is the world....

Will ...[text shortened]... the same feedback from my Theology Teacher and classmates! AND I DON'T WANT THE WORLD TO END!
Eventually the sun will burn up its supply of hydrogen. Just before all the hydrogen is used up in fusion the sun will expand to form a red giant and destoy the earth, in about another five billion years.

Man would probably and very sensibly have decided to move planet before this occurs and at least for a while carry on going.

However matter is inherently unstable, protons eventually decay emmiting radiation which will lead to a universe in which all the containing matter will have decayed to gamma radiation.

Very hostile place in which to survive.

So we are probably bu*****d as a race but not for a while yet.

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Define end
Define life
this is all imaginary anyway