Sure, but don't waste your prescious time worrying about it. Live every day like it will be your last.
2006-07-20 02:47:31
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answered by Anonymous
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No one can predict the exact life of the earth but your question is actually two. The first is the physical end of the earth, and the second is about life on earth. The physical destruction of the earth will be related to the sun and at some estimates, we have several million years left. By calculating the mass of the sun and the consumption of millions of tons of hydrogen per minute, these estimate are predictions only based on what we currently believe would take place. Due to the difficulties in observing other solar systems in the galaxies, it is all conjectural. Perhaps as the end of the sun nears, the action might speed up or even slown down. But once the sun is gone, we or life could not exist as we know it as we would lack sufficient heat or light to sustain us. Life on earth is a different matter. Unless we begin to act soon, and control various pollutants, the earth could become unviable within a very short time and supposedly there are documents in the Pentagon that this could occur within a period of two years. Within the last decade we have seen changes that suggest a warming trend with the melting of glaciers for example on Mt. Kilimanjaro, but we also need to be suspicious that such claims are not just rhetoric of politicians or the always hungry news media for a polemic issue to gain ratings or sell papers.
2006-07-21 00:02:55
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answered by Frank 6
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There is the possibility according to several sources, but it is not a simple idea. The Chinese word for 'crisis' as danger -opportunity is a more whole idea. The Mayan calendar ends, I think Dec.12, 2012. Teilhard de Chardin saw an evolutionary development as the next stage but he thought it was far away. Another scientist using an exponential instead of linear scale on the computer came to within 10 days of the same date. The Bible talks about 'a new heavens and a new earth'. The Global Brain by Peter Russell (book and video) talks about making the next evolutionary step as a human race. The last major step animals became rational. The next step is the rational animal becoming more spiritual, not limited by bodily powers. It seems that possibility is in place almost through the Internet which is far more universally spread than anyone could have anticipated. But we also see how we are damaging our planet, perhaps past the point of no return through destroying massive forests, adding tons of toxins to our environment, unequal distribution of the world's diminishing resources, using water for profits of a few, supposedly taking over plant growth through genetic modification, that ignores the huge variety in nature, that protects it also,etc. So the end is possible, but like a 'seed' what will it change to? Matter cannot be created or destroyed, but only changed from one form to another.
2006-07-15 16:30:04
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answered by martian 3
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The earth would surely end some day when the sun dies.
The death of the Sun
Our nearest star, the Sun, will exhaust its supply of hydrogen fuel in around 4 billion years. Then the Sun's core will collapse under its own gravity. At the same time, its atmosphere will become unstable and start to expand. This will transform the Sun into a huge red giant star.
This is not good news for the Earth. Closer planets like Mercury will be completely engulfed by the swelling Sun. Earth will be entirely vaporised and all life on our planet will end. But there's no reason for alarm - we have a few billion years to plan our escape!
2006-07-20 21:54:53
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answered by Ray T. 2
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I think it will, but hopefully, we won't be around when it does. With all the terrorism out there, it's only a matter of time until a nuke falls into the hands of a madman, like a briefcase nuke, and he uses it on some country. Then, it will be a chain reaction, as whatever country gets nuked first will fire at the country they thought nuked them, which wasn't really them, and then it will keep going, until there's nothing left.
Look at all the nuclear confrontations in the past. The U.S. and Russia, India and Pakistan, and now North Korea and Iran are bound and determined to get the bomb. It's obvious, in my opinion, where this is headed.
2006-07-16 17:15:30
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answered by snafu1 2
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Life will end with the next collision with an asteroid even though right now we have the technology to thwart such a catastrophe.
2006-07-20 17:55:58
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answered by Anonymous
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no the earth is not going to end...but we, the human race will someday vanish. the earth might under go some radical changes but i don't think it will end.
2006-07-20 21:56:58
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes, it's going to end in about 5 hours to be precise.
2006-07-07 00:28:59
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answered by Anonymous
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No, but I think when Jesus comes back it will sure change for the better, get a little flatter and much nicer without all those who don't choose to follow him.
2006-07-20 14:00:02
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answered by Anonymous
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the human race may but not mother earth
2006-07-19 03:03:28
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answered by med savy 2
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