Frostedflakes616
Jul 12 2006, 01:01 PM
There are many theories on how the world will end for us, on how the Earth and us with it will be destroyed.
First Theory:
As you all know of the Big Bang, which is believed to be the start of the universe. Some say that the universe may go back to that little sized pearl and we will be destroyed.
Second Theory:
If you did not learn this in school, the sun is a star. And all stars have life and death. Their death is when they explode becoming a nova/supernova. Which means the sun will have one as well. They say eventually, the sun will end life and explode, destroying the Earth.
These are the two main theories that I know about. What do you think? Do you think the universe will go back into the pearl sized amount of gas? Or will the sun blow us up?
You decide. If you know of another theory, feel free to mention it.
My Opinion:
The first theory in my opinion is highly unlikely. I don't believe the whole universe will shrink back. If anything, the universe will keep expanding forever. I do believe in the second theory, but that will probably not last for another couple million or even billion years. If not that, we'll be destroyed by a meteor or colide with another planet, both seem to be unlikely. So if we don't get destoyed by another planet (by collision) or by a meteor, the sun will blow up on us.
deranged_allure
Jul 12 2006, 02:26 PM
I don't believe any of those theories for several reasons of my own.
Can't really explain right now. It's hard to explain.

I'll come back later when I get the right words to
say type.
forza
Jul 12 2006, 02:52 PM
^ do you not believe those reasons as a result of your religious faith? That's only my assumption; don't take offense to it.
But from a scientific perspective, I agree with the topic starter. Pending the earth isn't wiped by an incoming object, it should last until the sun's life expires: millions of years away, I take it.
cashmere deer
Jul 13 2006, 06:20 PM
Of those two, I agree with the second. But when you say earth do you mean the physical planet, or life on earth? I think all humans will eventually destroy themselves but when it comes to the actual mass who's to say how it will end?
Frostedflakes616
Jul 14 2006, 07:31 PM
^ I agree, Eventually all life on earth will eventually just die, probably becuz of a huge ass war and using nuclear weapons and blow up everything on earth. I really just meant Earth the planet itself. Oh yeah I remembered, the name of the 1st Theory was called the Big Clap theory, or something like that. Where the universe just shrinks back.
voguelove
Jul 14 2006, 09:53 PM
im thinking the sun will die and so will earth.
either that orr...
global warming. if it dissapears, we'll all basically fry to death.
Simba
Jul 15 2006, 10:19 AM
Well the second theory is much more likely to happen eventually. Just not in a long long time.
The first one is iffy. Depends if you believe in the big bang in the first place.
And of course there's those ways that the Earth ends in religions.
deranged_allure
Jul 15 2006, 11:16 AM
QUOTE(forza @ Jul 12 2006, 3:52 PM)

^ do you not believe those reasons as a result of your religious faith? That's only my assumption; don't take offense to it.
But from a scientific perspective, I agree with the topic starter. Pending the earth isn't wiped by an incoming object, it should last until the sun's life expires: millions of years away, I take it.
Not really.
ECD & C0
Jul 15 2006, 01:51 PM
QUOTE
If you did not learn this in school, the sun is a star. And all stars have life and death. Their death is when they explode becoming a nova/supernova. Which means the sun will have one as well. They say eventually, the sun will end life and explode, destroying the Earth.
thats what i think
cashmere deer
Jul 15 2006, 10:06 PM
QUOTE(APPLEjuicex @ Jul 14 2006, 7:53 PM)

im thinking the sun will die and so will earth.
either that orr...
global warming. if it dissapears, we'll all basically fry to death.
I agree with the Global Warming thing, it is becoming a pretty big problem. But..we won't fry. The crazy weather will eventually lead to ice age as I was told? Correct me if I am wrong.
Shahin
Jul 16 2006, 03:03 AM
Science lesson.
The sun isn't going to
explode. You would need a sun with much larger demensions for an event like that too happen. Rather, our sun will do what most other stars it's size do when the fusion processes in its nucleus run out of fuel. This bitch is gonna expand like a motherf**ker! It's gonna grow because it needs to engulf things to fuel itself with. But it'll soon crap out. Most scientists speculate that it will engulf mercury and venus but stop before it hits Earth. It
will be close enough to boil all the oceans on Earth, though. So we are supremely f**ked. Even if bacteria survived this stage, the sun will then begin to collapse in on itself because it cannot sustain its enlarged state. So bam, no sun= no light. No light = not a lot of anything.
QUOTE
im thinking the sun will die and so will earth.
either that orr...
global warming. if it dissapears, we'll all basically fry to death.
If global warming disappeared we'd freeze. Global warming is essentially the increasing amount of CO2 in our atmosphere. CO2 is an insulator that keeps heat in the planet. Take away the Co2 and we'd be cold as hell.
QUOTE
Eventually all life on earth will eventually just die, probably becuz of a huge ass war and using nuclear weapons and blow up everything on earth. I really just meant Earth the planet itself. Oh yeah I remembered, the name of the 1st Theory was called the Big Clap theory, or something like that. Where the universe just shrinks back.
I disagree. Even if nuclear war broke out and the entire human population died out, [Which is ALSO unlikely. I find it hard to believe that the whole human race would die out] small animals would still likely carve out a living. And if not them, then bacteria and aquatic animals certainly would.
If I were to pick a theory as to how ALL life on earth dies out...I'd go with the sun dying out though.
Shinji_Mimura
Jul 17 2006, 09:05 AM
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, don't misserve your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn,
return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,
blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle,
light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,
a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
and I decline.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mount St. Edelite.
Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic,
slam, but neck, right? Right.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine...
(It's time I had some time alone)
cashmere deer
Jul 18 2006, 11:32 PM
Ohh, I love that song.
QUOTE(Shahin @ Jul 16 2006, 1:03 AM)

If I were to pick a theory as to how ALL life on earth dies out...I'd go with the sun dying out though.
Agreed.
no-name
Jul 19 2006, 01:11 AM
Most likely the second theory will happen. The first one does not make any since to me
I Shot JFK
Jul 21 2006, 12:20 PM
QUOTE(Shinji_Mimura @ Jul 17 2006, 3:05 PM)

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, don't misserve your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn,
return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,
blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle,
light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,
a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
and I decline.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mount St. Edelite.
Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic,
slam, but neck, right? Right.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine...
(It's time I had some time alone)
if i am not listening to that song during the apocalypse i will be royally pissed off, you know.
I tend to think that human life will end due to some sort of asteroid collision which is too cataclysmic to survive. of course, nuclear war could hugely alter society as we know it before then, wich would be a laugh.
xXYouMeBedNowXx
Jul 21 2006, 06:56 PM
I have a few possibilities:
EARTH-BORN CAUSES
Nuclear Fallout
Probably the one that humans would be the most direct and immediate cause to the Apocalpyse. Very simply, someone, somewhere, will be idiotic enough to launch an aggresive nuclear attack against a powerful country. Simple retaliation, and the Nuclear fallout will quite possibly poison and destroy all life on Earth as we know it. Except the cockroaches.
Global Warming
A major climate shift has recently been observed, where the overall temperature of the world will rise significantly, and the sea levels will rise a dozen or more feet within a decade. Already, there has been evidence of this kind of a change happening where ice caps and glaciers all over the world have been melting. The amount of greenhouse gases that traps the sun's heat in our atmosphere is causing the overall temperature of the world to rise significantly, and at a dangerous pace.
Viral Plague
We know that as man continues to progress in the attempt to wipe out disease completely, that we rule out as much disease as we can -- except simply, the ones that are too strong to kill. Scientists have hypothesized that the causes of the last five to six extinctions were due to an unstoppable virus that kills off almost all life on the Earth. However, once it wins, there are no longer any hosts for the virus to infect, and the disease becomes dormant again. If Ebola had an evolved state of form, or some other disease, it's a large possibility. AIDS anyone?
DERIVITAVE: Flesh-Eating Zombies
Resident Evil, guys. T-Virus.
COSMIC EXTINCTION
Chances are that humanity will die off before anything on the cosmic scale will occur. But if we do...
The Sun
Precisely. The sun would get far too hot for anything on Earth to survive before it got to its premature stages of implosion/explosion. But if we do survive, humanity may be forced to move somewhere else.
Meteor
Dinosaurs all over again. A large meteor could definetely cause extinction of many species, and if not extinction, a large enough chunk to completely undermine the fabric of human civilization.
Andromeda
The closest neighboring galaxy we have is Andromeda. And it is heading millions of miles an hour straight toward the Milky Way. If you are familiar, Scientists believe that at the center of every galaxy is a Black Hole; the "sun" of the galaxy that holds it together. The thing that is so special about Black Holes is that they can merge. If these two super black-holes were to merge, it might very well implode on itself. If not, the Galaxies are crashing into each other anyways.
DERIVITAVE: Big Crunch
Like the Big Bang, when everything exploded, the Big Crunch is the exact opposite. A larger scale of the above theory is that all black holes will eventually merge, and develop into the origin of the next universe that will explode. Then it will implode again. Then explode. etc. etc.
Shahin
Jul 21 2006, 09:45 PM
QUOTE
Scientists have hypothesized that the causes of the last five to six extinctions were due to an unstoppable virus that kills off almost all life on the Earth.
Where's your source for that?
datass
Jul 21 2006, 10:24 PM
I think nuclear bombing will kill us all in a matter of time
Shinji_Mimura
Jul 21 2006, 10:34 PM
QUOTE(Shahin @ Jul 21 2006, 7:45 PM)

Where's your source for that?
( see HIV )
Libertie
Jul 21 2006, 11:59 PM
QUOTE(Shahin @ Jul 21 2006, 9:45 PM)

Where's your source for that?
I don't think it matters, that's pretty much common knowledge, plus it's not really essential to this nonexistent debate.
Which brings me to my next point, IS this a debate? Eh. Not important, but there's nothing really we can argue here.. We can't predict the future, so it's all just discussion, not actual argument.
But for the sake of the thread.. The sun burns out, global warming, something smashing into the earth, the earth somehow being knocked out of orbit and spiraling into the sun.. There's a number of possibilities. Go me for not making any sense and wanting to keep this short.
smoke
Jul 22 2006, 12:23 AM
Being a Christian, I do believe in the End Times and the Rapture. If the Big Man doesn't hurry up, we'll probably just end us destroying ourselves, lol. Honestly, the way things are going. Not only do we threaten ourselves through war, but also the effects of our treatment of the environment. In one way or another, it'll be our fault.
Melissawilson5
Jul 23 2006, 04:57 AM
Ok I do not believe that the world will end with a "Big Bang" and I do not believe that the sun will blow us up...in the bible when it talks about the end times it does not mention the world exploding or ending juz like that it clearly says that Jesus will return so I don;t think that the world will end in a big bang!
forza
Jul 23 2006, 10:27 AM
And if what the Bible says is incorrect?
Melissawilson5
Jul 24 2006, 07:07 AM
QUOTE(forza @ Jul 23 2006, 10:27 AM)

And if what the Bible says is incorrect?
I am a Christian and I believe what the bible says and I do not think that the bible is incorrect. Jesus said that he would return before the end times, I am sure he would return before the world ended.
xoxo_proud
Jul 25 2006, 08:24 AM
The second theory sounds more plausible but personally I think we'll end up ruining the earth ourselves.
forza
Jul 25 2006, 12:03 PM
QUOTE(Mells-Star @ Jul 24 2006, 7:07 AM)

I am a Christian and I believe what the bible says and I do not think that the bible is incorrect. Jesus said that he would return before the end times, I am sure he would return before the world ended.
Well, you'll be a little taken aback if everything in the Bible was nullified by a huge meteor, eh? Talk about your all-time mass dejections...
oXMuhNirvanaXo
Jul 25 2006, 12:09 PM
In another 50,000 years .. the sun will expand and whipe us out. WE WILL BURN!
I Shot JFK
Jul 25 2006, 02:43 PM
QUOTE(Mells-Star @ Jul 24 2006, 1:07 PM)

I am a Christian and I believe what the bible says and I do not think that the bible is incorrect. Jesus said that he would return before the end times, I am sure he would return before the world ended.
well, if your only basis for this comment is your religion, you'l forgive us if we disregard you completely.
msladyliberty
Jul 25 2006, 04:37 PM
Second Theory sounds more possible.
aubbob
Jul 26 2006, 01:40 PM
i think the suns gonna kill us.
either that or bush will.
baby_in_blue
Jul 26 2006, 04:06 PM
i think if myspace ever closes down...
Shahin
Jul 27 2006, 12:01 AM
QUOTE(Shinji_Mimura @ Jul 21 2006, 8:34 PM)

( see HIV )
Hardly.
smoke
Jul 31 2006, 03:52 PM
QUOTE(forza @ Jul 23 2006, 11:27 AM)

And if what the Bible says is incorrect?
It is indeed my faith. You believe what you want, I'll believe what I want.

Simple as that.
NoSex
Jul 31 2006, 04:42 PM
I think Jesus is going to fly down from the sky like superman, carry all the bad men (by bad men, I mean 'men who do not believe what I do.') away to eternal damnation so that they can burn and suffer forever and ever. Then Jesus will pat me on the back and fly me up to heaven with all the good men (by good men, I mean 'men who believe what I do.') where I can feel nothing but pity for my brothers who burn in hell and joy for myself up in happy land! Wow, typing this theory out... it seems so plausible and makes so much sense! This definately isn't a reflection of frail human emotionalism! It's the truth! The truth!
Don't forget the locusts with human faces and fierce lion fangs!
alienshards
Jul 31 2006, 07:25 PM
The Earth is a facinating thing. It can survive most anything, even a collision with another planet. Consequently, there are only two scenarios I can see.
First, is the Sun dying. During it's death it will expand, and possibly go nova. I do not think the mass of the Sun is enough, but the expansion will be enough to swallow the Earth.
The second possibility is the entry of another entity. It is possible that a white dwarf, or some other planet, will pass close enough to the Earth to pull it into its gravitational field and subsequently engulf it.
Neither scenarios are likely to happen.
timeflies51
Jul 31 2006, 10:38 PM
QUOTE(baby_in_blue @ Jul 26 2006, 5:06 PM)

i think if myspace ever closes down...
LMAO.
Four words: "End of ze world."
Everything they suggested was pretty realistic, actually. Ice caps melting (global warming), meteor crashing into the earth, destroying the ozone layer, and the sun exploding. Or, of course, just blowing ourselves up. See? Funny internet cartoons DO have meaning!
Joss-eh-lime
Jul 31 2006, 10:47 PM
ladies and gentlemen flip your bibles to Revalations.
Even if you dont believe in Christianity,
you'll see the stuff in that book will come to happen.
but like Acid Bath Slayer said (with less sarcasm) i dont know how im going to feel if any of my loved ones arent in heaven with me.
ChaosPunx
Aug 7 2006, 08:51 AM
Global Warming,War(It becomes bad),Anti-Christ(im Not really religious but I do think that could happen.)
///EDIT/// i said i wasnt religious oh well
xbloostarx
Aug 7 2006, 02:45 PM
QUOTE
I am a Christian and I believe what the bible says and I do not think that the bible is incorrect. Jesus said that he would return before the end of times, I am sure he would return before the world ended.
Time is an illusion. Therefore, I don't think he will be returning.
Religion is not the answer to everything. Atheists out there choose not to believe what the bible says.
The sun will blow up and wipe us out completely in a couple million or so years. But, by that time, we'll already be dead, either because Bush killed us all or because we breathed in to much carbon monoxide.
rorhinna
Aug 9 2006, 01:17 AM
QUOTE(xbloostarx @ Aug 7 2006, 12:45 PM)

Time is an illusion. Therefore, I don't think he will be returning.
Religion is not the answer to everything. Atheists out there choose not to believe what the bible says.
The sun will blow up and wipe us out completely in a couple million or so years. But, by that time, we'll already be dead, either because Bush killed us all or because we breathed in to much carbon monoxide.
Ya, people can believe what they want, but there isn't anything that suggests that the Bible isn't correct, and it is one of the most historically accurate books out there. a
And I resent who posted the comment about totally disreguarding anyone who posts their thoughts on religion. The thread did ask for ANY theories they knew of.
and I'm sure you can guess what I think will happen... exactly as the Bible says.
Melissawilson5
Aug 9 2006, 03:49 AM
QUOTE(xbloostarx @ Aug 7 2006, 2:45 PM)

Time is an illusion. Therefore, I don't think he will be returning.
Religion is not the answer to everything. Atheists out there choose not to believe what the bible says.
The sun will blow up and wipe us out completely in a couple million or so years. But, by that time, we'll already be dead, either because Bush killed us all or because we breathed in to much carbon monoxide.
Ok you can believe what you want to believe but I honestly I do not think that Bush whould kill every one thats getting a bit to over the top and the sun can not blow up and wipe us out like how can you honestly belive thats goin to happen there is nothing wrong with the sun and there is nothing to prove that it will blow up I don't think GOD created the earth to wipe us out by the sun blowing up sounds like a stupid thing....so i believe that the world will not blow up it does not state that in the bible!!
demolished
Aug 9 2006, 05:49 AM
what the hell? If God really care about us, why didnt he save everyone that were going to died on 9/11 ?
what about iraq?
and what else?
mipadi
Aug 9 2006, 08:08 AM
QUOTE(Mells-Star @ Aug 9 2006, 4:49 AM)

the sun can not blow up and wipe us out like how can you honestly belive thats goin to happen there is nothing wrong with the sun and there is nothing to prove that it will blow up I don't think GOD created the earth to wipe us out by the sun blowing up sounds like a stupid thing....so i believe that the world will not blow up it does not state that in the bible!!
Uh...but we've observed stars going nova. We've observed stars "blowing up" (for lack of a better term). Why would the sun
not be under the same laws of physics?
Shahin
Aug 9 2006, 03:48 PM
QUOTE(Spiritual Winged Aura @ Aug 9 2006, 3:49 AM)

what the hell? If God really care about us, why didnt he save everyone that were going to died on 9/11 ?
what about iraq?
and what else?
Lol. That's a really bad way to look at it.
Uronacid
Aug 9 2006, 07:24 PM
I believe that in the end times there will be a great war in which every country in the world will be forced to fight. Someone will end up firing the first neuclear war head, then someone else, then someone else, and then eventually everyone will have bombed the hell out of eachother. Emp's will destroy all eletronic devices and the world will go into a neuclear winter. The world will grow cold, and billions more people will die. Becuase most people don't know how to survive without modern techonology most will die, and many will not be able to reproduce becuase of the radioacitivty. Eventually everyone will die in the this neuclear winter full of radiation, and the planet will turn into a cold and bitter ice cube.
I think it will happen when I turn gay..
T0rmented_Soul
Aug 9 2006, 07:31 PM
The end of the world, hmm maybe not anytime soon, but the Global Warmings is getting worse and our OZONE layer is dissolving rather gradually, and who knows, we might not be able to rescuae ourselves or anyone in general if the next natural disaster will hit, the Sun is expanding that is true, it's been around a long time and will pretty much may go into a Super Nova, if lucky we'll not be sucked in, but then we'll maybe have another Ice Age and everybody's life may change due to temperature drops and all that. so basically if our world keep becoming unstable with natural disasters, we might be wuped out from those disasters rather than being exploded, or engulfed.
Uronacid
Aug 9 2006, 08:14 PM
Lol, if there is a suprnova. We will definitly die XD... supernovas are huge! Like 10's of millions of miles wide... LOL, we will get cuaght in the explosion, and even if we don't. An explosion that size will create heat waves that will kill us instantaniously. I'm not even scared XD
T0rmented_Soul
Aug 9 2006, 08:16 PM
^ same here I think it would be interesting in my last moments of life I would want to live in space and go to jupiter, theres that big hurricane and I wanna ride around it, then maybe have one of those wierd Wizard of Oz life.
Uronacid
Aug 9 2006, 08:17 PM
QUOTE(T0rmented_Soul @ Aug 9 2006, 9:16 PM)

^ same here I think it would be interesting in my last moments of life I would want to live in space and go to jupiter, theres that big hurricane and I wanna ride around it, then maybe have one of those wierd Wizard of Oz life.
sounds awsome ;)
Blank-OuT
Aug 10 2006, 02:15 AM
Well, I don't believe the 1st theory. It just doesn't seem reasonable for me, I was taught that the galaxy always expands? I don't see how it would shrink back together.
The 2nd theory makes sense though. I read somewhere that the sun gets bigger as time passes, for some reason, and as time passes Earth will eventually be engulfed by the sun. I believe that theory.
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