when is the end of the world?

Question

when is it!

Answer 1

When you die

Answer 2

The most honest short response to the question is that nobody knows. Nobody can tell you with precision even when your life will end -- or mine. There is a rose sitting in a vase on the table in front of me -- and I can't tell you how long it will be before it wilts. How much more difficult would it be to predict the end of the world?

The best anyone can do is to establish an outside boundary -- a point beyond which it is clear the world will not exist.

About four billion years from now, the sun will expand to roughly the orbit of the earth and become a red giant. When that happens, the entire earth will burn like a big marshmallow on the end of a stick.

So, it is probably safe to say that the end of the world will come no later than the sun's expansion in four billion years. But what happens between now and then is anybody's guess.

Answer 3

When it ends. haha

World is a general term.

There are many scenarios considered "doomsday" events. Now, since many important/intelligent people know of the possibility of our extinction, they may write books so that people in the future increase their chances of survival. Yet one very smart individual, Stephen Hawkings, says we have a hundred years. My opinion? He wants us out of this planet yesterday!

We are sitting here, waiting for the end. Earth itself is destined to be destroyed, it won't be inhabitable once the Sun is enlarged in a few million years. Yet there is a good chance Earth will be struck by an asteroid in the next millenium. HIV, the virus responsible for AIDS (the syndrome that sucks) may undergo changes or unite in symbiosis with bacteria and go airborne, causing a terrible pandemic (worse than the one we are undergoing now, to say the least). The flu pandemic may be catastrophic as well (say 2008), war could occur between the East and West (possible doomsday event?). Not to mention global warming, new viruses, continuous violence world-wide, terrorism on larger scales, disruption of the dollar/euro causing chaos world-wide, entering a new middle age due to high level of technology and low level of moral values and ideals, the list goes on for ever. Even insane scenarios like grey goo have been taken into account. In the end, it's more probable we don't make it past a hundred years than do. But even if we do, my faith in humanity is not as high as my faith in our doom, I simply can't see a universe in which we have colonies on Alpha Centauri's solar system, let alone Mars.

Answer 4

It could be 28 minutes from now or 280 years from now. It takes a russian ICBM to reach continental US targets less than 30 minutes to reach its targets.

You hear about the nukes that Iran or NorKor may use, but the real bulls in the glass shop are the nuclear arsenals of Russia and the US. Their arsenals can obliterate a million Hiroshimas, but there's less than 3,000 cities greater than 100,000. And the number of military installation is relatively small.

A mere 100 megatons will initiate global impact winter. Will we have a nuclear war in the near future? Probably not, but we've come mighty close on more than one occasion. The last close call was in 1995 when the Russian 'suitcase' holding the launch codes was activated for the first time in history because of a scientific launch by Norway that the Russians mistook for an attack on them. .....and that was POST-Cold War.

The aging Russian command and control systems and their aging early warning systems should be our greatest concern.....anyway that's all.

Answer 5

Nobody knows that answer except God. There are a lot of signs (all coming from revelation; bible) that tell us we are coming to the end of this world but not to worry the EARTH will still be here and certailn people wil be here to enjoy it.

If you'd like to know more email me ad let me know!

Answer 6

When people will lose faith ineach other completely---and when environmental pollution will reach an utmost level to abolish all the living in the world.

Answer 7

Ask Skeeter Davis.

Answer 8

Tomorrow.

Answer 9

In about 3 months when Iran nukes us.

Answer 10

When the internet crashes

Answer 11

RIght now! Look outside.