Rev7 Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 ^^^^^ Unfortunately. How do you think that the moon has all of those 'impact craters'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcesious Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Don't forget this possibility: If the Apophis asteroid does coem very close to earth but doesn't hit it in 2036, it could still hit the moon. And if it hits the moon just right, we could have a meteor shower comign off the moon at the earth as a meteor shower of giant moonrocks. That, and if it hits the moon at a high enough velocity and just the right angle, it could knock the moon off of it's stable orbit, and make the moon crash into earth... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev7 Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Who are we trying to predict the future? No one knows exactly how the world is going to end. So all that we can do is live our lives to the very fullest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcesious Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 All i know is that i believe I'll go to heaven when I die. No matter how unfounded that is, I liek being able to not be afraid of death like most everyone else in this world. I just don't want a painful death is all. I have a very low threshhold for pain. I'm prayign for rapture of dying in my sleep. Basically i agree with Rev7. (Athiests please don't yell at me because i believe that) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev7 Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 You are entitled to your opinions Arc, as everyone else here and in the world is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1jrJedismom Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 I think it will be much our own doing. We are destroying nature left and right. Everything from animal species to plant. The time will come when the earth will not be able to support any life form. We are Poluting water sources, clearing rain forests. China is one example. They do not produce enough food to feed their population. I imagine we will reach a population level where we no longer have the land resourses to feed ours either. The plants and animals will be gone with no way of reestablishing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 That will not happen as it opposes the self regulating nature of life. Life cannot destroy itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcesious Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 What law? We humans are on top of the food chain. We could destroy every form of life on the entire planet if we wanted to. Maybe we're illegally disbeying that law of nature now. How hard is it to fathom that? Life, in the human kind, can destroy itself and other life. We are the equation in the law of nature that messes everything up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Including bacterias and microorganism? I doubt that. And I wasn't talking about human species life. I was talking about life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediMaster12 Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 That will not happen as it opposes the self regulating nature of life. Life cannot destroy itself. [/Quote] We can destroy ourselves and we are living beings. Classic example is nuclear warfare. We end up killing ourselves either from the blast or poisoning. Of course there is that saying that life finds a way. I thought they thought the earth was goign to go into an all life-killign ice age in 2012... [/Quote] Thinking The Day After are you? That was actually from Aztecan lore. It is what they predicted would happen at the end of the Fifth Age Ollintonatiuh, the age we are in now. Funny enough it is very similar to events predicted in the Bible in the Book of Revelation which mentions a severe earthquake and a period of silence from heaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Of course there is that saying that life finds a way.That is what I talk about. Life has not made it over the past million years and that against all odds because there is a switch somewhere labeled "naaaah". That, of course, doesn't mean it's impossible for chosen lifeforms to head down the "wrong" route resulting in extinction of their own and other species. However that doesn't happen for destruction, like it may seem, but for expansion and spreading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 If humanity doesn't destroy the earth first, then its end will come when the sun becomes a red giant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1jrJedismom Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 I was just reading an article in National Geographic (Feb 08 issue) talking about the recient drought and the decline of our water supply. It seems that throughout history, there have been what they call mega droughts. What we call normal weather is infact a wet period. The Anasazi abandond their pueblo during a drought period in the 13th century. We seem to be at the start of one of these mega drought periods. Already it has been shown that Lake Powel is at 50% capacity and droping. We are headed into a dust bowl period. Is a tragedy, but the gient Sequoias (2000 yr old) may not survive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bee Hoon Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Everyone on the Equator shall cook and everyone away from it shall freeze. Wear your sunscreen, 'tis good for health. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 This... is a very disheartening thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev7 Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Wear your sunscreen, 'tis good for health. I think you mean grab your coats! This... is a very disheartening thread. Well of course it is, after all it is named The Way The World Dies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1jrJedismom Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 But, somehow the cockroaches survive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Rider Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 I was just reading an article in National Geographic (Feb 08 issue) talking about the recient drought and the decline of our water supply. It seems that throughout history, there have been what they call mega droughts. What we call normal weather is infact a wet period. The Anasazi abandond their pueblo during a drought period in the 13th century. We seem to be at the start of one of these mega drought periods. Already it has been shown that Lake Powel is at 50% capacity and droping. We are headed into a dust bowl period. Is a tragedy, but the gient Sequoias (2000 yr old) may not survive. If the "dry period" happened 700 someodd years ago, and the Giant Sequoias are 2000 years old, then logically they went through the previous dry period at a time when they were at least half their age. Which meant they were more susceptible to drought, if one can even claim a thousand year old tree is susceptible to drought. Therefore, I think it stands to reason that they'll survive a second one. Fortunately for us, we know how to convert sea water into fresh water, maybe a "mega drought" will simply kick us into gear about doing it, it would be doubleplus good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1jrJedismom Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 The scientist in the article bring up the addition of glabal warming and bark beatles. They are already seeing a change in "landscape" in the southwest. The Pinion and Juniper alongh with other drought resistant plants are dieing off. The Beatles are eating the Ponderosa,Lodgepole pine and Douglas fir too. Since these Beatles attack trees weakend by drought, I wonder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbieZ Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Personally i believe the end of the world will be caused by micro black holes accumulating inside the earth to the point of consuming the entire planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev7 Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Good theory you have going there HerbieZ. Very "outside-the-box" type of thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcesious Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 A black hole can't form inside Earth. It's not massive and dense enough. For example: Jupiter essentially could becoem a star if it was massive enough. If a whole ton of matter and energy is is great enough quantity, it can become a black hole. Earth is very tiny. Micro black-holes are no more different in the way they form than normal black holes, they're just more dense and small. If a micro-black hole was inside earth right now, we'd die instantly. However, we could still get killed by a black hole nearby or a collapsing black hole... However, if there was a collapsing black hole nearby, we'd be able to see it by checkign for gamma rays, and there isn't one liek that naywhere nearby, because it would be huge. Really huge. We're talking so huge most of the universe would probably go boom. It would have to be a lot of solar masses in size before it would implode on it's own gravity. Wiki on black holes. Very interesting, while at the same time, terrfying: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole I liked the ingenuity of the idea though. ( I wonder what woudl happen if a black hole ran into another black hole... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediMaster12 Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 That is what I talk about. Life has not made it over the past million years and that against all odds because there is a switch somewhere labeled "naaaah". That, of course, doesn't mean it's impossible for chosen lifeforms to head down the "wrong" route resulting in extinction of their own and other species. However that doesn't happen for destruction, like it may seem, but for expansion and spreading. Well in basic evolution, it's survival of the fittest. Often the strongest is a single celled organism. Look at bacteria, single celled and has been around for millennia. Wouldn't suprise me if we killed ourselves off and there it is. Circle of Life anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taak Farst Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 Well in basic evolution, it's survival of the fittest. Often the strongest is a single celled organism. Look at bacteria, single celled and has been around for millennia. Wouldn't suprise me if we killed ourselves off and there it is. Circle of Life anyone? Agreed, it sounds a lot more likely. Can I request this thread be closed? there is a bit of on argument breaking loose-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corinthian Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 There was a terrible ghastly silence. There was a terrible ghastly noise. There was a terrible ghastly silence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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