How, in the end, do you think the world will end?

Quote from: blacksails on April 23, 2014, 07:09:50 PM

Why would the viruses evolve where there are almost no people? Doesn't it usually evolve where there are to many of a specie?

Because the viruses infect other organisms also, not only humans.

Take for example the case of the Ebola virus. The virus was actually confined to a few remote caves in a gorge, where no large living creatures except the bats lived. As a part of the human encroachment, hunters moved in to the cave (probably to take refuge from showers, or to make a camping site) and contracted the deadly disease.

Climate change plus asteroid = the mother of all apocalypses...

I think humans won't survive but the earth will Grin

Quote from: azurekat on April 24, 2014, 09:19:04 AM

I think humans won't survive but the earth will Grin

I agree with you!We as humans destroy ourselfs and the environment every second,but this planet know how to regenerate itself ,so in the end "the world" will end but the planet Earth will survive.

So many things can go wrong. In the end we probably die from something nobody expect. Things ends always like that.

Some possibilities in order of likelihood:

- Asteroid/celestial object
- Nuclear winter brought about from wars resulting from dwindling resources in the distant future
- Worldwide drought
- Unable to figure out how to get close to the speed of light by the time our sun expands

Through a music festival which will ascend our consciousness to a higher dimension.

Think positive and enjoy life.. As far as I'm aware you only get one so don't waste time focusing on the bad, life is good.

Known answer to this. Fried up as the Sun expands. Next science question.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-sun-will-eventually-engulf-earth-maybe/

Most likely the sun will burn out, or it will explode (that's if we don't kill ourselves faster).

It will end with a maniacal laugh from Jesus.

I do not know which end of the world has biggest percentage, but I know that we are very irresponsible to our planet and all creatures on it. If you ask me we are so unpredictable that we can avoid every disaster, but also we can create every disaster, so haha I am not sure. I hope just that we will be better to our planet and to all creatures in close future.

Quote from: MisterDD on April 25, 2014, 12:31:55 PM

The reason we're not more responsible is because when we evolved it was much more important to take short-term decisions. But evolution has not been able to keep up with technological advancements. Therefore we don't take the decisions that's best for humanity long term.

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Asteroid (happened at least once), oceanic anoxia (happened at least twice)

I think that one of these will cause our doom: a Virus, Aliens or a Solar Storm.

Quote from: LaudaM on April 25, 2014, 06:32:20 PM

I think that one of these will cause our doom: a Virus, Aliens or a Solar Storm.

Why Aliens? I don't buy it. Plenty of opportunity to have done it by now and we're still here.

Solar Storm is a very good one. In 1859 there was a solar storm so powerful the aurora borealis (or the northern lights) was visible from Cuba. Telegraph posts caught fire. Imagine what a storm like that could do to your mining rig

in a flurry of 42000 Bitcoins. for one pizza. in the year 2072 Shocked

Quote from: LaudaM on April 25, 2014, 06:32:20 PM

I think that one of these will cause our doom: a Virus, Aliens or a Solar Storm.

The solar storm would be pretty bad as the EMP wave takes out comms arrays then a virus at that time and a pandemic without world coordination to be finished off with aliens

But I wonder would the aliens catch our virus or spread them lol.