How will the word end?

Question

My theory is higher global temperatures will create higher insect and bacteria growth, which will result in faster spread of disease. Meaning wide spread plague.

I should have siad how will our world end. I omited other life.

Answer 1

How the human race will end is anybody's guess. I suspect that however humans wind up extinct, it will be human-caused, not just some accident of nature.

If this suspicion is wrong, there are several kinds of natural disasters that could do the trick. There are several supervolcanoes around the world that are still active and due to blow again soon. One of these is in Yellowstone National Park. Actually, it IS the park, and if it blows, we Americans will be jumping the fence into Mexico, but that won't help us in the long run. The debris thrown up into the atmosphere will block out the sunlight around the globe, just like a nuclear winter. An event like that could easily wipe humans off the globe. The last time Yellowstone sneezed, the blast killed herds of camels hundreds of miles away. But even if Yellowstone doesn't blow, there are two other active supervolcanoes in the US that could do the trick.

Another disaster that is inevitable is an impact by a meteor or asteroid. Meteor Crater, in northern Arizona was caused by a meteorite that was only a little more than 150 feet across, but it exploded with the force of more than 20 million tons of TNT, formed a crater almost a mile wide, and 700 feet deep. The crater isn't as deep now, because time has filled it in a bit, but even now, if you were to place the Empire State Building in the center of the crater, you could stand on the edge of it and look directly at the antennas on top.

Scientists think that an asteroid would have to be larger than one kilometer wide to have serious global effects, but much larger ones are known to have already caused global extinction events. The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit around the Yucatan Penninsula about 65 million years ago. At the time that it actually touched the ground, if you could have frozen time, the top of it would have been six miles in the sky.

This site lists all of the KNOWN potentially hazardous asteroids; http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/Dangerous.html

An asteroid, meteor, or comet could strike earth at any time, and if large enough, could kill all but the hardiest survivors, and maybe even ALL life on earth, but earth would still exist. It would be banged up, but still here.

What will absolutely destroy the earth and all life on it is when the sun goes into the red giant phase. Right now, the Sun fuses hydrogen, which releases all of that energy. When it runs out of hydrogen, it will start to burn helium, which is the product of hydrogen fusion. This releases much more energy, and this energy will cause the sun to expand. When it does, all of the planets out to Uranus will be absorbed in its outer layers and destroyed.

Don't give away all that you own to charity yet, though. That isn't due to happen for another 5 billion years or so. I'm sure the human race will be long gone by then.

Answer 2

If you mean, "How will the Earth end?", then the answer is known: The sun will slowly expand over the next 10 or so billion years, eventually swallowing the Earth up. ...but the Earth will have been burnt to a crispy crunch billions of years before actually getting gobbled. And, of course, a really big asteroid could smash us to bits.

If, instead, by "world" you are referring to the world as we know it, i.e., with humans and life and so on, then my guess is there will be no real end. Just lots of slow changing, on an on, until we change beyond recognition. If we can change from single cell to human in about half a billion years, and from chimp to human in about 10 million years, how might we have changed in another five billion years!

Answer 3

some say the world will end in fire,
and others say in ice.



Please note, wide-spread plague doesn't end or even hurt the world. Just the humans, and some of the animal life.

Answer 4

the world itself will not end.. but the living creatures and plants will.
global warming is a way to make the earth's core cool. it releases its heat through volcanoes, etc because if this won't happen to volcanoes, the earth itself would burst because of too much heat inside it.

Answer 5

the world will never end is my theory.
Our next population knock out will be coming within a 100 years but life will always exist!!!

Answer 6

The world will end exactly the reverse as it is when it first started to form.

Answer 7

According to T S Eliot, it will end not with a bang, but a whimper

Answer 8

due to global warming and the scarcity off water

Answer 9

How will the "word" end?

It will end with "d".

Answer 10

BIG BOOM