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1) a meteorite
2)end of sun
3)by asking these type of questions
2006-07-01 02:57:48
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answer #1
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answered by Prakash 4
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1. A very probable end is that in about 4 billion years the sun will expand and become a red giant. The surface of the sun will expand, becoming so large it will engulf the earth.
2. It's always possible that a passing space body, such as a huge asteroid or comet, will collide with the earth. This is harder to predict, but we can calculate that if something bigger than 50 miles wide hit the earth it would pretty much end life as we know it, and if we were hit hard by something 10 times that big the earth would no longer be recognizable at "The Earth."
3. Hmm - for the third, there are lots of odd possibilities. A passing star could throw earth off its orbit so far that we'd spiral into the sun. A passing black hole could suck us up. An alien race could vaporize us to make way for a galactic bypass. A space-time warp could suck the earth into a different dimension.
4. And no scientist has 100% disproven the spiritual realm yet, so it's possible that one of religion's predicted spiritual ends might happen. Christ will come, old things will pass away, and we'll have a new heaven and a new earth. Or so many of us believe.
2006-07-01 02:11:17
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answer #2
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answered by dougdell 4
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The answer to this is based upon theories, religious belief amongst Christians, and possible cataclysmic disasters.
Scenario one. The return of Christ. According to the bible the return of Christ will end life on this world to make way for a new heaven and Earth without sin and pestilence.
Scenario two. Too many people creating too much of a strain on the Earth's resources. This will cause excessive pollution, build up of waste, and the pandemic of world wide diseases such as the bird flu.
Scenario three. A cataclysmic event such as a major volcanic eruption causing nuclear winter world wide from the fall out of the ash. This is similar to the eruption of Krakatoa that caused global cooling that was felt as far away as North America where snow fell in the North East in July. Because of massive crop failures, many families starved to death. However cataclysmic events do not have to be volcanic. They can be from earth quakes, comet or asteroid collisions, massive earth quakes, etc. However, being cataclysmic, they are Earth changing events that very well mean the doom for most of the inhabitants.
It depends upon one's belief to accept the scenario that seems the most likely.
2006-07-01 02:04:48
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answer #3
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answered by Randy 4
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1. If too many people are born then the earth will get very heavy and
go out of orbit and be burned up by the sun.
2. If we use up all the water and there is nothing left to drink but
cokes and stuff like that.
3. If we don't stop kids from eating junk food then they will start
having organ problems earlier and earlier and pretty soon they
live long enough to have babies.
2006-07-01 02:33:33
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answer #4
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answered by Anonymous
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In order to answer this question, ask yourself... Does the author want to know how the "earth" will end or how "life on earth" will end - because the answers are very different. I read the questions as how the "earth" will end.
The most probable cause for the Earth's destruction will take place when the Sun, as part of its solar lifespan, expands to a red giant. Current models predict that the Sun will expand out to about 99% of the distance to the Earth's present orbit (1 astronomical unit, or AU).
However by that time the orbit of the Earth will expand to about 1.7 AUs due to mass loss by the Sun, and so the planet will escape envelopment.[20] This event is estimated to take place in 5 billion years. (5 Gyr).
Before becoming a red giant, however, the luminosity of the Sun will continue to steadily increase. It will grow from the current luminosity by 10% in 1.1 Gyr and up to 40% in 3.5 Gyr.[20]
Climate models show that a steady increase in radiation reaching the Earth are likely to have dire consequences, including possible loss of the oceans.[21]
Clearly some of the respondents have already hit upon the most plausible answer. Namely, I agree with the one that predicts in a bout 4 billion years, as our sun ages (and grows) to a supergiant, the earth will be consumed (as will mercury and venus). To coin a pop-culture induced term, "Mars is the new Earth". Or rather, the new Mercury.
Such activity essentially concurrently ends all life on earth, because the earth ceases to exist as a result of natural changes in our solar system. By then, hopefully, humans will have spread themselves throughout the cosmos and thus the human race will have some chance of survival.
Other potentially more urgent causes of threat to "our future" as humans suggest that the pollution we create will likely change living conditions here on Earth long before the earth sees the end of its days as a planet. We should continously remind ourselves, that we live in a very delicate biosphere on the only planet known to support life. As we pollute that biosphere we are slowly poisoning our only refuge. Without aggressive environmental policies and actual change, we will have poisoned the atmosphere to the point where it can no longer support human or animal life. When that happens, earth becomes a dead rock in space - until it can heal itself millions of years after the current assortment of species have perished. Remember that as you're driving your gas-guzzling, greenhouse-gas creating SUV to your next destination.
2006-07-01 02:50:01
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answer #5
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answered by Robert O 1
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There is only one way the Earth will end:
First, the Sun will go Nova. Then the Earth will get overheated and volcanos will errupt all over it's surface. All those erruptions will cause the surface to weaken and disassemble in total, by a huge explosion of boiling core material. Thus the whole Earth will be destroyed.
OK?.
2006-07-07 01:59:28
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answer #6
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answered by Vlada M 3
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THREE or more that three WAYS EARTH WILL END
1. Earth will start heating up again (rise in temperatures by getting close to sun and may turn gaseous again)
2. Large Comet Crash
3. War with Aliens
4. MAY BE YOU would end Earth... how? i'll tell u later.
2006-07-01 03:43:22
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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1. Read Revelations
2. Earth won't end, human life will after we kill each other or make the Earth impossible for us to inhabit and can't adapt enough air conditioners to survive. In dying off, other species that have adapted will flourish, Earth will approach a state of homeostasis and return to "normal" (before we screwed it up), and the 10 humans who survived will start all over again.
3. I like the whole Aliens squash us like grapes theory.
2006-07-01 02:25:14
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answer #8
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answered by alphaxander 1
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There is only one way it will end, that meaning it will no longer exist as a planet, and that will be when our sun ages to the point of turning into a red giant, whence it will expand its diameter beyond that of the orbit of Jupiter, thus consuming the Earth and turning it into hot gas.
2006-07-01 11:53:00
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answer #9
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answered by onrockpile1966 1
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1. war 2. Nature 3. Both
2006-07-01 02:26:33
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answer #10
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answered by marie l 2
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1. the sun suck the earth in side it.
2. the earth's core cooled down...
3. our galaxy reach the end of the universe and earth stop spining.
2006-07-01 01:58:53
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answer #11
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answered by Hart 2
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