How will the world end?

Question

10 points for the right answer.

Answer 1

A giant hippopotomous will fall from the sky, blocking out the sun and crushing all life upon impact with the ground. The sheer force will make the earth shatter into millions of little pieces. I know this to be fact cos my breakfast cereal told me.

Answer 2

Mutant ducks will inherit the earth following the demise of the human race due to someone leaving the gas on. The ducks will not be able to maintain the ecological balance of the earth so will turn to the badgers who have more experience of saving planets. But they are sidetracked by the infestation of killer kangaroos again and they battle to the death which leaves just Clive the Kangaroo and hes too immature to manage anything if you ask me. He slowly lets the world deteriorate and doesn't clean up after himself and only hoovers when he has guests (the squirrels are still alive and often visit, bless em) Then one day he has enough and starts a intergalactic war with the Cyber-potatoes, resulting in the end of the world.

Am i close?

Answer 3

I'm assuming you mean the end of human life, not the destruction of the planet...however, most events, even the most catastrophic will never wipe out the human race completely, especially once we have the capability to leave the earth and live elsewhere permanently.

In some rough order of probability the end of the world could be due to:
- As a result of the sun expanding into a red giant.
- A cosmic impact of massive proportions.
- A highly infectious incurable disease.
- Global nuclear war.
- An ice age.
- Interstellar war with an alien civilisation.
- Divine intervention.

Answer 4

Humans will probably have caused their own extinction long before you have to wory about that! But in any case the most likely end of the world will either be by collision with some major Meteor/comet or when the sun turns into a red giant and fries the planet. Fun!

Answer 5

Holy wars end this world. I have seen the end in Boo's time consumer. Jah, Boo, myself and the others, we went back and changed things. They would not listen to us at first, but we showed them the end and showed the proof of our travels into the future. They had to listen when the whole world saw us materialise on Fifth Avenue. It's only 15 years to go before our plan changes the theological ethos of the world. There will be a world religion, they'll call themselves "The Believers", they'll have no churches, no hierarchy, no public meetings, just their private religion, and after seeing the end, they all join. In 45 years, humankind will become Gods, and that was why we were here. I have written it all down and I intend to blog the complicated adventure, people will marvel when they discover Boo's world.

Answer 6

Your World will end when you die, as will mine (when I die , not when you die:-)).

Will the World as you know it continue? No! Because you won't be in it. Will you come back as a fly to observe your friends and family living without you, only to be splatted against pale green wallpaper when you buzz too close to the Sunday roast - no!

Don't worry about how the World will end - it's questionable whether it really exists in the first place. Loving people, feeling pain and witnessing the distress caused by these two things is what life is all about - when your World ends you won't be aware of it or be able to reflect on it, so don't sweat it.

Answer 7

there are lots of ways

one would be the ordinary way: the Big Bang

another: a HUGE epidemic spreading everywhere that will kill mankind, this has to happen somehow, i mean we already went through so much epidemic and we survived all

another: meteors, we're really lucky that a big rock from outer space isnt hitting us right now and someone would be very stupid to suggest to "destroy" it with a bomb which actualy causes it to divide into big pieces that will destroy the world

and etc. (cant think right now )

Answer 8

Ask Dr. Stephen Hawking

Answer 9

The world, assuming you are talking about the earth specifically, If this lovely human race (sarcasm) doesn't manage it on their own we could wait about Five Billion years until the sun exhaust itself out of gas & goes supernova & takes the solarsystem with it! (in which case we will be long gone from here anyway)

Answer 10

Depending on your point of view, it will go silently and maybe not at all if there is no-one left to see it, a bit like the silent tree falling in a deserted forest.