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Poll: If earth as we know it is destroyed, how do you think it will ultimately happen?

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most of these options would not cause the destruction of the earth, only elimination of humans and/or the other species. therefore, i think the most logical thing that would destroy the earth would be when the sun eventually dies.
 
The world will end when George Bush the XXXII causes a nuclear winter by accident while trying to dial a phone sex hotline.
 
Originally posted by: Brutuskend
You should ad LARGE VOLCANIC ERUPTION.

I saw a show the other day about SUPER VOLCANOS and yellowstone is capable of being one. It erupts on a more or less "set" time table, and that time is comming around again.

It would produce enough ash in the air that it would block out the sun to such an extent it would cause a nucular winter. Crops would die and MOST creatures would starve, including US.
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every 600,000 years. It's now 40,000 years overdue.

me too i'm always late... 😛
 
Originally posted by: PipBoy
Originally posted by: Vic
Where's the poll option for "it won't"?
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because if none of these other wonderful events happens, the sun will die and this rock will get pretty frosty.
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actually no. in the process of becoming a supernova the sun will expand way over earth-distance, so it's gonna be quite hot.. 😛
(me=dumb wiseass)
 
Originally posted by: PipBoy
Originally posted by: Vic
Where's the poll option for "it won't"?
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because if none of these other wonderful events happens, the sun will die and this rock will get pretty frosty.
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Yes, but provided that's even true, it would still be some 4,600,000,000 years in the future or (to put it in human perspective) some 57,500,000 lifetimes or 230,000,000 human generations. Considering that ALL of recorded human history only goes back some 250 generations, and we barely even remember that, it is really is a span of years so distant that it is not even worth thinking about.
 
Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: PipBoy
Originally posted by: Vic
Where's the poll option for "it won't"?
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because if none of these other wonderful events happens, the sun will die and this rock will get pretty frosty.
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Yes, but provided that's even true, it would still be some 4,600,000,000 years in the future or (to put it in human perspective) some 57,500,000 lifetimes or 230,000,000 human generations. Considering that ALL of recorded human history only goes back some 250 generations, and we barely even remember that, it is really is a span of years so distant that it is not even worth thinking about.
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Whether or not it's worth thinking about does not change the fact that the earth is going to end at some point. A vote for the sun engulfing us is is a basicly a vote for "it wont".

 
Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
most of these options would not cause the destruction of the earth, only elimination of humans and/or the other species. therefore, i think the most logical thing that would destroy the earth would be when the sun eventually dies.
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I heard and read that scientists don't expect the sun to die for at least another 5 billiion years
 
Read today's papers. The space shuttle disasters are being blamed on "NASA mentality". Space flights are going to be privatized. Lots of experimental craft from different companies on the drawing board. With the need for huge quantities of energy from portable fuels for these ships, and the design being tons of different places not all of which will have the same insane amounts of error checking/fewer eyes on each design, some of the experiments are bound to go wrong.
 
Originally posted by: tweakmm
Whether or not it's worth thinking about does not change the fact that the earth is going to end at some point. A vote for the sun engulfing us is is a basicly a vote for "it wont".
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Don't you think that "fact" is a bit of a strong word for a concept that is beyond human comprehension?
 
Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: tweakmm
Whether or not it's worth thinking about does not change the fact that the earth is going to end at some point. A vote for the sun engulfing us is is a basicly a vote for "it wont".
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Don't you think that "fact" is a bit of a strong word for a concept that is beyond human comprehension?
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The sun is a star. Stars die. When stars die they incinerate much of the surrounding area. Earth is well within that range. When the sun dies, the earth is going with it.
What is so hard to comprehend about that?
 
Originally posted by: glugglug
Read today's papers. The space shuttle disasters are being blamed on "NASA mentality". Space flights are going to be privatized. Lots of experimental craft from different companies on the drawing board. With the need for huge quantities of energy from portable fuels for these ships, and the design being tons of different places not all of which will have the same insane amounts of error checking/fewer eyes on each design, some of the experiments are bound to go wrong.
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Ahh... "Blowups Happen"
 
Originally posted by: tweakmm
The sun is a star. Stars die. When stars die they incinerate much of the surrounding area. Earth is well within that range. When the sun dies, the earth is going with it.
What is so hard to comprehend about that?
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That you're in fear of something that not only won't happen in your lifetime, but won't happen for another some 200 million generations...

But then of course there's the philosphical slant on all this, that humans beings are born and they die, and therefore they themselves cannot conceive of anything else that does not itself have both a beginning and an end, so we attribute birth and death cycles to even inanimate celestial objects...
 
Nuclear apocalypse within 300 yrs. Just like those movies...Some of all fears? Blam gets shifted around and everyone turns.



What a sheitty way to end it..
 
Also when its more than just NASA building spacecraft I very much doubt the environmentalists will let them carry up huge amounts of liquid fuel and just drop the fuel tanks off into the ocean when they're expended. Strongly suspect most of the new stuff will be nuclear, with more warp drive experiments on a much larger scale than the current ones. (Yes there IS such a thing, no, it's not currently on a scale you could even think about using for transportation, or even very "fast" yet). I'll have to find the link...
 
Originally posted by: glugglug
Also when its more than just NASA building spacecraft I very much doubt the environmentalists will let them carry up huge amounts of liquid fuel and just drop the fuel tanks off into the ocean when they're expended. Strongly suspect most of the new stuff will be nuclear, with more warp drive experiments on a much larger scale than the current ones. (Yes there IS such a thing, no, it's not currently on a scale you could even think about using for transportation, or even very "fast" yet). I'll have to find the link...
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Arnt those the scram or is it ram jet engines, IN PS i saw something about a pulse energy engine.
 
Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: tweakmm
The sun is a star. Stars die. When stars die they incinerate much of the surrounding area. Earth is well within that range. When the sun dies, the earth is going with it.
What is so hard to comprehend about that?
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That you're in fear of something that not only won't happen in your lifetime, but won't happen for another some 200 million generations...
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What are you trying to say? That one can't comprehend the sun incinerating the earth or it's hard to comprehend why anybody would be scared of the sun incinerating the earth. If it's the former I answered your question and if it's the latter, who said anything about being scared...it's going to happen billions of years from now😀.

so we attribute birth and death cycles to even inanimate celestial objects...
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For all practical sense, stars do have a very observable "birth" and "death" although it's all just matter being shifted around.
 
Third world people's will continue to flourish thanks to hand outs from the U.S. and other industrialized nations. These populations will continue to grow, despite not having the ability to sustain themselves on their own. Soon the world will be overrun by uneducated ignoramuses (please no comments that i am one of them), who will continue to stream into the U.S., overruning its infastructure, bankrupting it and rendering its ability to provide aid nonexistent. This will lead to the rape and pillage of land, turning it into one big garbage dump (just look at most of mexico).... Just kidding, everyone knows the machines will take over and nuke the earth.
 
Originally posted by: Munchies
Originally posted by: glugglug
Also when its more than just NASA building spacecraft I very much doubt the environmentalists will let them carry up huge amounts of liquid fuel and just drop the fuel tanks off into the ocean when they're expended. Strongly suspect most of the new stuff will be nuclear, with more warp drive experiments on a much larger scale than the current ones. (Yes there IS such a thing, no, it's not currently on a scale you could even think about using for transportation, or even very "fast" yet). I'll have to find the link...
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Arnt those the scram or is it ram jet engines, IN PS i saw something about a pulse energy engine.
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gravity (warp) propulsion experiments
1968 patent on "Method & Apparatus for Generating a Secondary Gravitational Force Field"
 
> Soon the world will be overrun by uneducated ignoramouses (please no comments that i am one of them),

Oh, okay. Can I comment on the fact that you misspelled "ignoramuses?"

EDIT: What is an ignoramouse anyway? A naive rodent? 😛
 
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