If you had to pick a scenerio of how the world will end, how will it be?

Question

Gamma Ray burst? Asteroid? Supervolcano?Viral Pandemic? how shall it all end? Scary, but it'll be interesting to hear some opinions...

Answer 1

The Sun will become a "Red Giant" in about 1-2 Billion years. It's outer layers expanding as the hydrogen fuel in the core is consumed and the core contracts and heats up. Helium fusion will begin when the core temperature reaches around 100 MK, and will produce carbon and oxygen. While it is likely that the expansion of the outer layers of the Sun will reach the current position of Earth's orbit, recent research suggests that mass lost from the Sun earlier in its red giant phase will cause the Earth's orbit to move further out, preventing it from being engulfed. However, Earth's water will be boiled away and most of its atmosphere will escape into space.


Life-cycle of the SunFollowing the red giant phase, intense thermal pulsations will cause the Sun to throw off its outer layers, forming a planetary nebula. The only object that will remain after the outer layers are ejected is the extremely hot stellar core, which will slowly cool and fade as a white dwarf over many billions of years. This stellar evolution scenario is typical of low- to medium-mass stars.

Answer 2

It will probably be the humans bombing themselves till we're all extinct and the earth is a charred husk of a planet...

...but if I were to choose how it would go, I'd have the earth's core stop spinning and for it to somehow either spiral away from the sun when the sun snuffs out and freeze over, or to collide with something that is steadily being pulled close to the sun and get knocked off course. I like ice, and without the sun, we'll freeze almost instantly.

After we are a huge ice cube, I think it'd be incredibly cool for us to spin off into another galaxy with another parallel earth and they'd find us and crack us open and research our planet.

Answer 3

Beautiful day, everyone is nicely going about their business.
Suddenly the sound of trumpets blast loudly about the clouds and the sky opens.
People begin to run and hide, but can't, some faint, some stand trembling with fear. A beautiful, gigantic Golden City comes down through the sky with a glowing rainbow over it. There are myriads of excited angels, singing and a glowing man dressed in white, sitting on a golden throne with a book in his hands.
Standing beside him is another man, humbly smiling and showing everyone an ugly scar in each palm of his hands.
People who were dead begin to rise up out of their graves, all of them see him, but some begin to float up towards the enormous golden city with some people who were alive.
Suddenly we will feel a sense of guilt when we see the scar and we will instantly know every secret of everyone else. In a split second everyone turns into a spirit, has a golden crown on their head and will happily greet their friends and families who were dead and live in the city forever, no more tears, we will play with the lions and leopards, we will eat perfect food, will use our talents and never experince boredom. Cool huh?
But then suddenly the earth begins to burn and the people remaining see the devil roaming about the earth and they are all burned up together.

Answer 4

Disaster Area Concert.

Answer 5

I like the aesthetic of all the post-apocalyptic scenarios... particularly where only a few, ragged survivors cling to life in a desolate, ravaged desert of a once fertile world.

All these people have been saying 'read yr. bible'. I say, for this question, "Cat's Cradle" by the late, great Kurt Vonnegut, is a better book to read.

Answer 6

Not with four damned horses riding across the sky, that's for sure!!! The guy who wrote that, in the 14th century, by-the-way was high on magic mushrooms and that is a historical fact!! Asteroid, probably! You'll be sitting there, minding your own business and the last thing you'll say is 'What the f**k was that?!'

Answer 7

Long before the Sun goes nova, the planet's orbit will decay and we will 'fall' closer to the sun. The atmosphere will burn off making the planet as lifeless as Mars. As we sink away from our present station, we may see the gas giants form atmospheres and then watch as life begins to grow there.

Just as there are zones on the planet that sustain life, we will likely find that there are orbital zones that can support life.

Answer 8

If the world was going to end I would like to see it go by way of an asteroid. I've always liked this scenario becuase it's something we can all see coming. Some way for us all to know before we die that nature is pissed and this is her revenge.

Answer 9

since the world is ending i believe there will be lots of suffering. but mine is a less cruel way. maybe we could all freeze to death by some ice storm. then at least we would be frozen and when sun melts us in another century or so, we would be alive again. then maybe people will learn lessons on saving the earth.

Answer 10

Let's see- interesting!

Billions of years pass- mankind has killed itself off long ago.

The sun pulls mother earth into her flame, and the gravity of the sun takes out earth!

Or- We all realize that we are all tiny beings on a microscope, and the creature that is looking at the "atoms-" "us" throws us into the trash!