When will the world end?

[Armistead]

If humanity doesn't ruin it first.

http://www.tested.com/inventern/458237-life-earth-likely-end-225-billion-years/?ncid=webmail1

I wonder how man will evolve?

[AVGWarhawk]

Something like this:

http://copelandcommunications.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/wall-e-humans_320.jpg

[Mr Quatro]

If I don't get paid payday then the world is over for me :o

King Solomon had an interesting view of the world:


Ecclesiastes 3:19–22 (NCV)

The same thing happens to animals and to people; they both have the same breath, so they both die. People are no better off than the animals, because everything is useless. Both end up the same way; both came from dust and both will go back to dust. Who can be sure that the human spirit goes up to God and that the spirit of an animal goes down into the ground?

So I saw that the best thing people can do is to enjoy their work, because that is all they have. No one can help another person see what will happen in the future.

[Jimbuna]

Something like this:

http://copelandcommunications.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/wall-e-humans_320.jpg

LOL :)

[Dread Knot]

Yes, the world will end again and again.

Mayans 2, Apocalypse Boogaloo is probably already brewing out there on the interwebz.

[Tchocky]

The day Barack Obama is sworn in for a third term, hand on the Koran, promising to use confiscated guns to force heterosexual Christians to have abortions.

Been reading the Conspiracy thread.

[Nippelspanner]

The day Barack Obama is sworn in for a third term, hand on the Koran, promising to use confiscated guns to force heterosexual Christians to have abortions.

Been reading the Conspiracy thread.
:har:

[Sailor Steve]

The world ended last year.

How did you miss it?

[AVGWarhawk]

The world ended last year.

How did you miss it?

I TiVO'd it if anyone wants to watch. :)

[mapuc]

I couldn't have said it better my self, the earth(not the world) is coming to an end in about 2-3 billion years from now

However, if you ask 100 different conspirators when the world is coming to an end you will get....

Many people makes that mistake that they say world, when it is the earth(Tellus)

World is what we live in the community

Earth is what we live on.

The world could come to and end next year, who knows,

But the earth is going to be very very old.

Markus

[Madox58]

Earth is what we live on.


Earth is where we are right now.
Income is what we live on.
(Or try to live on)
:D

[vienna]

Earth is where we are right now.
Income is what we live on.
(Or try to live on)
:D

Steve is rubbing off on you...


<O>

[Nippelspanner]

I couldn't have said it better my self, the earth(not the world) is coming to an end in about 2-3 billion years from now

However, if you ask 100 different conspirators when the world is coming to an end you will get....

Many people makes that mistake that they say world, when it is the earth(Tellus)

World is what we live in the community

Earth is what we live on.

The world could come to and end next year, who knows,

But the earth is going to be very very old.

Markus
True.
It is like with those green-freaks who yell at you that we have to change or we will destroy our planet...
No dear, we won't harm this planet even if we ignite all nuclear warheads we have.
We eradicate us, yes, but not the planet. And I am glad about that, really.
Reminds me of this:
(Language ahead...)
http://anticache.img3.joyreactor.com/pics/post/comics-planets-humans-296083.jpeg

[Ducimus]

If humanity doesn't ruin it first.

http://www.tested.com/inventern/458237-life-earth-likely-end-225-billion-years/?ncid=webmail1

I wonder how man will evolve?

It's my understanding that evolution takes millions of years, hundreds of millions maybe. Today we are no different then those of our species that walked the earth a thousand years before us. Beliefs have changed, technology has changed, but we as a species, i would say, are not much different. We are tribal by nature, with all the many trappings that go along with that.

On the grand scale of time, from the creation of earth to the present, man is but a fractional portion of that timeline. A small blip on the metaphorical radar, and in truth incredibly insignificant in the larger picture. One day, like many species that came before us, for one reason or another we will face our own extinction, and afterwards, it will be as if we had never been.

[nikimcbee]

To answer the question:

Cubs win World Series.
or
Vikings win Super Bowl.

If you're looking for the religious answer, who knows, I'm not holding my breath.

Disqualified from guessing:
Jehovah's Nitwits...What's their track record for guessing the end of the World now?:haha:

[vienna]

Well, let's pull out the old iPhone and ask Siri:


http://funnysiriquestions.net/images/b00111.jpg


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[BrucePartington]

We all know now the earth will one day be destroyed by the death throws of our parent star.
But it's not all doom and gloom, as some people seem to have a morbid passion for.
The good news, we still have about 2 billion years to prepare for a mass exodus operation.
So far the two main problems have been: a) finding a suitable planet, b) have the means to get there.
After scouring our closest neighbourhood, a few potential candidates have already been found, and more will be, I am sure.
As for the means to get there, I came across this very interesting (mind boggling) quantum physics documentary, which should spark the imagination.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6HWbs11zdU

After having the means to travel, and a suitable destination, all we have to do is pack our tooth brush and clean underwear, along with a generous collection of plants and animals, enough for a healthy gene pool for a brand new start elsewhere.
:hmmm: Noah's Ark all over again?

[Dread Knot]

:hmmm: Noah's Ark all over again?

Note to self--pack the unicorns this time.

[Madox58]

Steve is rubbing off on you...


<O>
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj64/rockwallhorn/album%201/oh-noes-everybody-panic.gif

[mapuc]

Did you know that our world almost came to and end in the beginning of the 80'ies, if it haven't been for a russian general(I think he was) that acted with calm.

And the have been many more situation where our existens have been on the brink to....

Markus

[Jimbuna]

I doubt we'll ever get to know the half of it.

[Sailor Steve]

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
-Thomas Stearns Eliot, The Hollow Men

[Egan]

Considering how drunk I'm going to get on Friday night, I kind of hope it ends in the early hours of Saturday morning.

[Cybermat47]

What if the world already ended, and this is hell?

[Tchocky]

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
-Thomas Stearns Eliot, The Hollow Men


From The Waste Land.

After the torch-light red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and place and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience

That poem ate 6 months of my life.

[Sailor Steve]

But what does it have to do with the world ending?

[Aktungbby]

:Kaleun_Salivating:What if the world already ended, and this is hell?
Now you get it! Welcome to the infernal regions: otherwise known as 'global warming'! And Satan's primate imps don't play nice either!

[u crank]

Cubs win World Series.
or
Vikings win Super Bowl.

I would have to add - Leafs win Stanley Cup. :O:

[nikimcbee]

:Kaleun_Salivating:
Now you get it! Welcome to the infernal regions: otherwise known as 'global warming'! And Satan's primate imps don't play nice either!

You mean Detroit?

[Stealhead]

What if the world already ended, and this is hell?


Hell is a religious idea of a place to be punished for sins committed in life therefore if this where hell you would know it without doubt.

[August]

The good news, we still have about 2 billion years to prepare for a mass exodus operation.

There's almost bound to be a planet killing asteroid whacking into us long before that. :)

[Jimbuna]

What if the world already ended, and this is hell?

You could be right but the question is....would you recognise the difference?

[nikimcbee]

Hell is a religious idea of a place to be punished for sins committed in life therefore if this where hell you would know it without doubt.

Yup, Detroit.

[AVGWarhawk]

You could be right but the question is....would you recognise the difference?

Depends. I think everyone has their own minds eye picture of what Hell might or does look like.

[Armistead]

Be interesting if we could find another planet that could sustain life. I don't know that we could inhabit it, but maybe we could send the building blocks of life so evolution could start again.

[Dread Knot]

Be interesting if we could find another planet that could sustain life. I don't know that we could inhabit it, but maybe we could send the building blocks of life so evolution could start again.

That may have already happened once in this solar system...naturally.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23872765

[Oberon]

The world will end when the Sun eats it.

Asteroids may destroy life on the world, but they won't end the world, quasers may sterilise the surface of the world, but they won't end it.
Unless something the same size as Earth blunders into it, then our world is pretty tough, plus we have our giant meat shield in Saturn and Jupiter which absorb most of the big rocks that float through the system, and the moon takes a couple that take aim at us.
Human civilization on the other hand is made of glass in a rubber ball warehouse, and all of our eggs are in this one basket, one rock and we lose hundreds of years of progress. That is why I'm of firm belief that we need to get off this planet, to Mars, to the Moon, to anywhere that'll take us. To put our eggs in different baskets, and to help with overcrowding...although until the colonists become self-sufficient then there's still an outgoing resource drain.
Still, in the meantime there's Kerbal Space Program...

[Mr Quatro]

The earth will probably live on, but the world we know will pass away.

Here is what one gentleman said in church back in 1937 ... everyone in the church told him to sit down.

An elder in the Pentecostal Church at Moss, Norway, heard the following prophecy in 1937, in Moss:

‘When oil comes out of the North Sea and along the Norwegian coast, things will begin to happen, and the return of Jesus is approaching.’

http://www.inthebeginning.com/articles/norway1968.htm

When these words had been proclaimed, people stood up in the congregation and asked the man to sit down and not speak such nonsense. In 1937 it was indeed nonsense to talk about oil being pumped along the Norwegian coast. Today all the world’s big oil companies are pumping oil along the coast of Norway. Norway is the world’s second greatest exporter of oil - after Saudi Arabia.

Here's what a 90 year old woman said in 1968 and has long gone on to her resting place: http://www.inthebeginning.com/articles/norway1968.htm

An old woman of 90 from Valdres in Norway had a vision from God in 1968


"All that I have seen of war before is only child’s play compared to this one, and it will be ended with a nuclear atom bomb. The air will be so polluted that one cannot draw one’s breath. It will cover several continents, America, Japan, Australia and the wealthy nations. The water will be ruined (contaminated?). We can no longer till the soil. The result will be that only a remnant will remain. The remnant in the wealthy countries will try to flee to the poor countries, but they will be as hard on us as we were on them.

"I am so glad that I will not see it, but when the time draws near, you must take courage and tell this.

[nikimcbee]

The real question is, how many posts will Jim have by then?:/\\k::hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

The real question is, how many posts will Jim have by then?:/\\k::hmmm:

Could be one or two I guess :salute:

[Dowly]

The real question is, how many posts will Jim have by then?:/\\k::hmmm:

If world ends in about 2.5 billion years, about 28643375000000 plus what he has at the moment, if my calculator is correct (or my math).
(Calculated from his average posts/day, so it would probably be much higher)

[BrucePartington]

There's almost bound to be a planet killing asteroid whacking into us long before that. :)
Agree. I forgot about those. The one that helped extinguish the dinosaurs was the most (in)famous, but there have been others, before and after.
Relevant video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boqAx43gmK8

[BrucePartington]

You could be right but the question is....would you recognise the difference?
You instantly reminded me of this
http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/images/matrix26.jpg

[Platapus]

...to force heterosexual Christians to have abortions.


You laugh, but when he was first running, there was a McCain event in Leesburg, VA. There was a woman in the audience spreading the rumour that if Obama were to be elected, he would instruct the government to force Republican women to get abortions so that the country could be populated with democrats. :doh:

Wow. If it were on a stage, I would say it was a funny act. But this was for real. It was even reported in our local paper so she must have told a reporter about it.

wow.

[Platapus]

Be interesting if we could find another planet that could sustain life. I don't know that we could inhabit it, but maybe we could send the building blocks of life so evolution could start again.

Who knows, maybe the next time it works out better?

I think spreading humanity to other planets would be a great crime against the galaxy. The sooner our species dies out, the faster the earth can recover.

[Sailor Steve]

You laugh, but when he was first running, there was a McCain event in Leesburg, VA. There was a woman in the audience spreading the rumour that if Obama were to be elected, he would instruct the government to force Republican women to get abortions so that the country could be populated with democrats. :doh:
"If Jefferson is elected, murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced."

[STEED]

Well on Futurama Fry the professor and Bender witness the end of the world and the whole universe only to see the second and third big bang! :hmmm:

[mapuc]

It's not when will the world end it's

When will earth end to exist ?
(in about 2.5-3 billion years from now)

When will our world end ?
(don't know, it could end day after tomorrow)

Markus