2007-05-01 09:51:30 · 14 answers · asked by Michael H 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It could be 28 minutes from now or 280 years from now. When the superpowers square off against each other in two camps, then come back and we'll talk apacolpse.
Until then, just think regional conflicts, wars between rump states, proxy wars and brinksmanship. If you recall the Yom Kippur War in 1973, a coalition of Arab States (Egypt, Syria and Jordan) were soundly defeated by the Israelis. That was a worse situation than the current conflict and it didn't raise a blip on the world war radar (not that it didn't have the potential to spark a global war).
The next World War will involve a nuclear exchange, how could it not. In the first 30 minutes, nearly a billion people will have been vaporised, mostly in the US, Russia, Europe, China and Japan. Another 1.5 billion will die shortly thereafter from radiation poisoning. The northern hemisphere will be plunged into prolonged agony and barbarity.
Eventually the nuclear winter will spread to the southern hemisphere and all plant life will die. You ask when is the apacolypse, you are asking when will we commit global suicide. My answer is it won't happen soon because the larger superpowers are more rational than the rump states in the middle east.
Our biggest risk is an accidental launch of nukes by one of the nuclear powers.
2007-05-01 10:54:40 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah. Human's maybe (though I doubt it), but the world is just fine even as a cold ball circling the sun.
Folks convinced that the world will end while they live are a bit arrogant. Think of all the molecules that had to gather in just the right way and then self-replicate, evolve, repeat the process, face mass extinction, repeat the process, until finally here we are! Look back in awe at your good luck at even seeing the show and don't worry about the finale; each of ours comes soon enough.
2007-05-01 17:10:56 · answer #2 · answered by A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MY world will definitely end in MY lifetime
2007-05-01 17:16:19 · answer #3 · answered by CisBest 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The world will end on April 1, 5,000,000,147 AD, when the sun, having burned all the hydrogen at its core, goes red giant and eats the earth. Don't wait up.
2007-05-01 16:55:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've mathematically calculated that on October 25, 2021 the world will end.
2007-05-01 17:11:59 · answer #5 · answered by StealthShadow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, Just after tea time on the 21st March 2029.
2007-05-01 16:59:19 · answer #6 · answered by AndyB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, if you think logically by saying that the world will end when your life ends by you dying. but i have heard that the world will end on December 21, 2012...but who knows. life is short anyway, so eat dessert first!
2007-05-01 21:29:11 · answer #7 · answered by crazy hippo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't think so. Well...it actually depends on how old you are, really.
As much as global warming has affected us, it hasn't become terribly severe yet. If we don't do something about it NOW though, it might not be here for the next generation.
2007-05-01 16:55:22 · answer #8 · answered by emilie hope 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a strictly philosophical sense, your version of the world ends with your moment of death.
2007-05-01 16:55:00 · answer #9 · answered by Hoopo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the apocalypse that is most pressing upon us in not the "end of the world", but the inevitability of our own death.
2007-05-01 17:44:46 · answer #10 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋