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[Sussex] What’s your prediction for the end of the world? Date and how?
- Thread starter Giraffe
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Sounds doubtful
Apart from a very few, very rich, individuals - I'd say "no chance" .
I think the idea would be more to send breeders up to ensure the survival of the human race. I don't think anyone is planning on physically transporting the earth's population to another planet. Either way, it seems impractical to me.
According to John Cooper Clarke
you can tell your tale to the gutter press
get paid to peddle smut
now you've ridden the road of excess
that leads to the psycle sluts
or you can dine and whine on stuff that's bound to give you boils
hot dogs direct from cruft's
done in diesel oil
or the burger joint around the bend
where the meals thank christ are skimpy
for you that's how the world could end
not with a bang but a wimpy.
you can tell your tale to the gutter press
get paid to peddle smut
now you've ridden the road of excess
that leads to the psycle sluts
or you can dine and whine on stuff that's bound to give you boils
hot dogs direct from cruft's
done in diesel oil
or the burger joint around the bend
where the meals thank christ are skimpy
for you that's how the world could end
not with a bang but a wimpy.
Two Professors
Two Mad Professors
I think the human race will die out in the next 100 years,as blokes will be too scared to touch women in case they start shrieking rape 5 years later.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
80 years.
A Skynet equivalent will conclude we are not needed.
A Skynet equivalent will conclude we are not needed.
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Winker
CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE
The human race was genetically engineered by aliens called the Annunaki from the planet Nibiru. We will probably be killed off by an asteroid strike which will create a 'nuclear winter' or split the Earth's crust to allow billions of tonnes of molten magma to flood the planet, either way the world's ecosystems will be destroyed and only simple life forms will survive. Whether the Annunaki will return and try again remains to be seen but hopefully none of this will happen before Tony gets his millions back from the PL.
Could you email the Annunaki and ask them to hold off from destroying our planet until the Brexit thread on this site reaches a state of harmonious agreement?
That should buy us a few more Millennium in which to work out how this inter-stellar house-moving thing works, and we can all move to a new galaxy and start all over again...
OzMike
Well-known member
This, but there will be mass extinctions till this happens, as they have already happened throughout the existence of the planet.
On average an asteroid which could do this hits earth every 75 millions years and the last was about 75 million years ago........................just saying.
I think we will wipe ourselves out as a species, someone will push that button sooner or later, probably the ones expecting all the virgins when they die in glory, couldn't pinpoint when though.
Nixonator
Well-known member
If we find one in a habitable zone that could sustain us, yes. It may be a very real possibility for future generations well before any global threat occurs.
The problem isn't so much getting there, yet. Most resources are being applied to giant telescopes at the moment to be able to find one close enough not to take more than 1-2 generations worth of time to reach.
That's not to say we aren't making small breakthroughs regarding propulsion either, the latest being solar sails and hawkins' alpha centauri project.
Small steps, we (the human race) have plenty of time. Think how tech has developed in just the last century and consider that technological advancement is exponential. Check out the law of accelerating returns, we could see some crazy shit within just the next 50 years.
Megazone
On his last warning
The world as we know it will end, a new view and understanding of it will occur disproving a lot of current science. Everyone will start living in synchronicity rather than around a clock. Spirituality will no longer become hope but instead, a way of life due to a mass awakening of spiritual englitenment resulting in the Earth being renamed 'Heaven' and the Amex Stadium as Falmer stadium.
This will happen in the next 5/10 years.
This will happen in the next 5/10 years.
The problem is very much one of getting there (if a viable 'there' actually exists). We would need some sort of spaceship on which generations would live and die before reaching their destination - a large gene pool would be needed, so lots of people, so the colonists wouldn't be total inbreds. We're talking of a bloody HUGE spaceship! After possibly centuries in space, mechanisms for landing might be a bit rusty too.
Maybe even that spaceship itself would have to be 'it', rather than another host planet - in which case it would have to be capable of renewing itself. Demand for a place is likely to exceed supply by a horrendous amount too!
Not saying it can't or won't be done, but it is a long way beyond our capabilities as yet.
Lyndhurst 14
Well-known member
- Jan 16, 2008
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I rather liked the American guy Harold Camping. He predicted the end of the world for 21 May 2011. I remember seeing all his supporters walking round NYC asking for donations - I think he was worth quite a bit at one stage. When 22 May 2011 dawned and the world was still here his disciples, who in some cases had given their life savings, were understandably a bit miffed. So he said something about human fallibility and getting the dates muddled up and he really meant 21 October 2011. After the second prediction also failed he had about as much credibility as a Crystal Palace manager.
OzMike
Well-known member
Better send all atheists or they will be doomed from the start.
'Seem' to agree? They all agree! Absolutely no scientist thinks the sun will last for ever and when it goes so does the earth. Whether humanity is here to see it is of course another question. Probably not in our current form because if we haven't got ourselves off the planet or wiped ourselves out we may have evolved into something else.
If you're talking about the end of humanity rather than the end of the planet (and the planet's survived asteroid strikes before) then I don't know. People have always looked at current events and predicted they mean the end of the world, and they've always been wrong before. Maybe civilization will take a collective backward step at some point (we bomb ourselves back to the stone age for example), but as a species we could survive even that and rebuild. If something like that does happen though you can bet your bottom dollar that the Independent will blame Brexit for it.
Human life to eventually end,probably within a few thousand years after slowly declining.During that time and within the next 100 years much of the Earths infrastruture/cities to be destroyed by nuclear war/terrorism.Much of the Earths population to be destroyed by either natural disease/plagues or viruses let loose by terrorists.
Other forms of life to continue.The Earth to continue as a dead planet for millions/billions of years like Mars.
If you really want to get into it then talk about how everything began because it's the most fascinating subject there is and one which is impossible to explain.
Other forms of life to continue.The Earth to continue as a dead planet for millions/billions of years like Mars.
If you really want to get into it then talk about how everything began because it's the most fascinating subject there is and one which is impossible to explain.
We'll get there eventually, but there are easier ways (ie. only slightly less to be doomed to failure), using currently technology.
If we're only talking about a few hundred "breeders", there are at least three options - self-contained underground bunkers on Earth; Mars; a near-Earth spaceship.
All would mitigate against us screwing up the environment; only the off-Earth options would protect against asteroids; we'll already be gone by the time the sun expands. As you say, small steps - I guess these would be the first few.
The chances of finding an M-Class planet in another solar system must be small enough to ignore. More likely, the environment would already be more screwed up than here, and you'd still have the possibility of asteroids.
As a way of saving the human race, it may work, but who'd want to live like that?
Save the Earth!
Nixonator
Well-known member
There is no oxygen (other than trace amounts) in space, nothing is likely to rust unless in orbit of earth for a sustained period.
Yes we are still a long way off, but as I said in previous post - technology is going to develop at an ever increasing rate. We may not even need to travel the stars, space bases or stuff that is considered science fiction such as terraforming could become a reality.