The End of the World - Your Version and Vision

[_____V_____]

Apocalypse.

Armageddon.

We have seen it in many flicks, read about it in several books. The Bible mentions it. Magazine articles often talk over it. TV discussions, visions, portraits, paintings...almost all of the media and fine arts have their versions of predicting the end of the world.

Which one do you think is the most viable? And how would you predict it to be?

If you have a personal vision, feel free to share it in here.

I will go first - it will come eventually in the shape of a large comet, hurtling right into the path of the Earth's orbit. Destroying everything and anything in existence around us in an instant, then slowly engulfing the entire planet in its wake.

For all the advances we have in technology and innovations, I think we will fight off plenty of pollution, tsunamis and earthquakes to eventually reach that kind of scenario. Although if we will have something to divert the path of a comet remains to be seen.

Unless the Sun turns into a black hole, and sucks us in, first.

[monster123]

Armageddon. I believe jesus will come again.

[ChronoGrl]

I truly believe that we're going to destroy ourselves with nuclear weapons while simultaneously the polar ice caps melt, flood the world, kill the polar bears, and we all die either from nuclear or UV exposure.

I'm not sure that we'll be around long enough to see the comet. Though, I figure that a comet strike is an eventuality.

Either that, or, I have to disagree with V - I think that greenhouse gasses, pollution, our combined carbon footprint will really make the planet unlivable.

[ManchestrMorgue]

I don't really see things ending spectacularly.

My expectation is that the human race will pollute/destroy/blow up the earth to the point where there is just nothing left to support life.

It seems like this is the legacy unless there is a major change in attitude. Which, naturally, I hope there iis.

[Despare]

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

I truly believe that we're going to destroy ourselves with nuclear weapons while simultaneously the polar ice caps melt, flood the world, kill the polar bears, and we all die either from nuclear or UV exposure.

I'm not sure that we'll be around long enough to see the comet. Though, I figure that a comet strike is an eventuality.

Either that, or, I have to disagree with V - I think that greenhouse gasses, pollution, our combined carbon footprint will really make the planet unlivable.

I think people as a race are too intelligent and too egotistical. We won't destroy the world before it begins to destroy us but I firmly believe that a number of human beings will live because we're almost at the point where we can create artificial environments to support human life on a semi-large scale. Anyway, I'll grow old and die before any of that crap happens and the only thing that would excite me would be the undead. Some people would survive a nuclear winter, flooding of the ice caps would be devastating but it wouldn't cover all the land, the species will carry on for a long, long time. Isn't the sun supposed to reverse magnetic poles again triggering some catastrophic event in 2012?

[hacelikewhoa]

I think it will be some kind of natural disaster or multiple ones.

or maybe we'll get sucked into the black hole or something

maybe even an alien invasion at some point

or a really bad world war

I have nightmares about the end of the world all the time it freaks me out

probably why I'm not religious a lot of stuff in the bible scares the shit out of me

[bloody_ribcut]

a rouge asteroid two times the size of earth will bump into us and knock us out of orbit, launching whats left of us into space to freeze and suffercate in an instant.


that,.. or a giant volano.

[Zero]

solar flares roast the place - and THIS WILL HAPPEN -(in about 50 million years)

[missmacabre]

I take the Jesus Armageddon one. Thing is that is all a bunch of metaphores so it will be interesting to see how it all plays out when and if it does. I think it will be hugely political though based on what the bible says.

[ferretchucker]

I think we can fight off a comet. But there's bound to be one that hits us eventually. May kill most life, but not all. Look at the dinosaurs.

`I think it will come in the form of a disease. A terrible, life killing pandemic, similar to the plague but on a larger scale. Probably airborn. One we can't fight in time. Bacteria are constatly evolving and adapting. Many are doing it extremely fast. Maybe it will bve a particularly mutated form of flu, or maybe the HIV virus will change to the point that it doesn't need sexual intercourse, and works faster. I don't know what it will take the form of, but I'm quite confident it will be a disease. Whether manmade or not, we couldn't stand a chance.