Billions of years from now, the sun will turn into a red giant and will eventually swallow the earth. So yes, in that sense, there will eventually be an "end of the world".
I'm not worried about asteroids. Major asteroid impacts take place maybe once every hundred million years. By the time the next one comes around, we'll have the technology to stop it.
There will be major catastrophes. There will almost certainly be nuclear war within our lifetimes, though it probably won't be anywhere near as destructive as some doom-mongers would like to think. Odds are it'll happen somewhere other than the United States. Nuclear war may set us back decades, or in the worst case by a century or so, but it won't threaten the survival of the human race.
Global warming and other supposed environmental catastrophes are not a threat to human survival. The dangers have been vastly overblown by the nuttier environmentalists. The average temperature of the planet has frequently been hotter than it is today, and in general, when a problem gets sufficiently severe, people tend to take action to fix it.
We'll certainly have setbacks, and probably even some major ones, but the human race is pretty hardy. We can survive in all environments, ranging from arctic to desert, even without the help of modern technology. Sometimes people do crazy things, but overall, I have great faith in the future of humankind.
Nope, the world isn't ending any time soon.
2006-09-14 11:32:09
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answered by Bramblyspam 7
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I don't think an asteroid is going to be hitting the earth anytime soon. See, the inner planets have a sort of built-in "asteroid protection system." The planet Jupiter has massive gravity that draws all the asteroids near its orbit. That's where the asteroid belt came from. Occasionaly one might get through, but they're usually not very big.
2006-09-14 14:58:00
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answered by bioraptor7 2
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employing the idea of a consistently increasing universe from the large bang... If the entire inhabitants of China might want to line up unmarried document and walk previous YOU, the line will under no circumstances end as a results of reproduction! meaning by employing the time 1/2 have exceeded, there childrens will be ten years previous and strolling nicely! So too with the universe, its very demanding to imagine of the top of the universe as a results of sheer importance and speed of advance. because the international, our photo voltaic gadget, galaxy and universe is FINITE; there might want to be a element the position previous it there is 'not something'. Now... IF the universe might want to be infinite, the there might want to be no such difficulty as 2 diverse 'somthings' contained in the international like bananas, human beings or frogs... on the grounds that 2 INFINATE issues can not co exist on the grounds that there's a regulation from Euclid that if there might want to be 2 halves of an entire, that entire isn't infinite. to placed it easy... In our international we've numbers of issues, there is not something contained in the international it fairly is innumerable, in case you would possibly want to be sure a line of dominos, you recognize there is an end to the line... so too with the universe, regardless of the reality that it really is shifting, there is an end. the top of the large bang in that it really is increasing like an explosion is that in the destiny the upward push procedure will decelerate and then there'll be what's at present effortless as vast crunch. So certain there is an end to the universe, geographicly and contained in the time-body. i'm Jewish and the idea of the large bang being part of our beleif has lesson. the actual reality there is something obtainable which 'nothin' shows that our mind is like our eyes, like our eyes can not see 360 stages stages, so too our scope of our interligence isn't 360 stages. yet the picture of our eyes can see 3-d, so too our brains can outline 3-d and comprehend there's a reduce to our scope, so as that we dont thinkg all of us recognize each and every thing an GD is above us. desire you understood.
2016-11-26 23:31:52
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answered by mccuistion 4
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An asteroid will take out earth long before the sun swallows us.
2006-09-14 12:03:46
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answered by Steve R 6
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A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. As long as people keep having babies, no.
2006-09-14 11:26:06
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answered by D D 1
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The world will end when the sun expands and engulfs it
2006-09-15 04:33:36
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answered by bprice215 5
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maybe in 4 billion years when the sun will die, maybe.
2006-09-14 23:38:02
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answered by ray_bluparrot 2
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please reffer http://www.faqs.org/qa/qa-833.html for ur answer
2006-09-15 01:16:24
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answered by Anonymous
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