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

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

Yup, Detroit.

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

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

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...

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:

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

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

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

Could be one or two I guess :salute:

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)

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

You instantly reminded me of this
http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/images/matrix26.jpg

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.

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.