how is the world gonna end really?

Answer 1

The sun is a star and stars explode. I guess that when the sun explodes we all dye and the world ends.

Answer 2

When people talk about the end of the world, when they -think- about it, they are really thinking about the end of US, the end of people.

I am pretty sure the earth will be here after we are all gone. It's big, it's made of rock, and it is fixed in its place in space either by the laws of gravitation or the hand of God--which ever you believe, the answer is the same.

The earth will be here LONG LONG after we are gone. It will end after the sun burns out, billions of years from now. But in another way it won't end. The matter comprising the earth will become part of a new star, which will burn out and the cycle will begin again.

We will be long gone by then, so it's nothing to worry about. Our population will increase until we either poison ourselves with pollution or use up the resources necessary for life--our air, the soil, our fresh water. Or perhaps we'll go quickly in a global nuclear holocaust.

If you grow germs in a petri dish, the population grows faster and faster. Each pair of germs has two babies, each baby germ has two babies, etc., so in a very short time you have billions and billions of them. This continues until either their accumulated waste becomes toxic or until all the food is used up, and then the population quickly dwindles to nothing.

The germs may refer to this event as 'The End of the Petri Dish'. But you wash out the petri dish and sterilize it and you use it again for the next experiment. The petri dish can go through many of these experiments with no damage to itself.

I think it's long since time we started considering the concept of -sustainability- in our agriculture, extractive industries, energy policy, forestry, fertility control, etc. etc. Theoretically we could go indefinitely if we did it right. But how often do you hear major political leaders even MENTION the term 'sustainability'?

Answer 3

First off, the Mayan apocalypse is just folklore, so don't rely on it too terribly much. Inscriptions at Palenque suggest that the Mayans used a short-hand form of a calendar. Using the long form, the Mayans believe the world will end long after you die in 4172 (?). Now, as to how our earth will be destroyed. Our survival on this earth, in the past, has been subject to occasional interruptions by space debris; however, that will change with the development of technologies that could possibly alter the orbits of space rocks by the slightest margin. Ruling that out, the most likely way our world will end may be the Four Horsemen found in the Bible. I'm not a religious man, but I can forsee a day in which a famine induced by global warming kill off billions. As people starve, their hygiene starts to take a nosedive. Now is the perfect opportunity for a disease to cripple the world and its infrastructure. Desperately needing food and cures for the second coming of the "Black Death", countries will war with each other in a similar fashion to what is going on in Africa right now. Picture this on a global scale. Billions will die out from brutal, possibly cannibalistic war tactics in which every man, woman, and child will fend for himself or herself. All this without nukes. If you throw a nuke or two in, which will probably end up happening, entire nations will be obliviated. Unless somebody saves the human race from complete annihilated (which might as well be the case in this scenario), the Four Horsemen will slay each and every one of the six billion (and growing) people on this earth. The likeliness of this happening, even this century, is startling high with the blossoming of global warming. That will be the end of the human race and certainly most other creatures, but insects and other scavengers will thrive. They will eventually evolve into more developed creatures, and the cycle will repeat itself. This next scenario is much less likely, but the earth will be consumed in far less time. 500 light years away, a blue giant star is on the verge on supernova. As it explodes, energy is shot out throughout the universe which is exponentially brighter than the sun called a gamma-ray burst. If this energy reaches the earth, the ozone layer will be fried, and most people who witness this will find their molecular composition in shambles. Those who survive will be subject to a global warming greater than the one we are facing right now. The atmosphere will also stay hot for weeks, flaming everything in its path. Of course, it is highly unlikely that a gamma-ray burst will ever strike the earth, so worrying about this is a waste of time. But, either way, the Four Horsemen ride into hell (whether you believe in it or not).

Answer 4

For humans, it will end when the Earth's crust shifts in a giant cataclysmic event that you can read about in Mayan folklore.

Geologically it will end when the sun goes into red giant phase about 5 billion years from now and swallows the inner planets.

By the way, on the Mayan thingy, it is supposed to take place on or about the 23rd of December, 2012....so we only have a little over four years to live it up.

Answer 5

I answered this one in another question so here is the truth.

The vision of the true rapture came to me in a dream and I haven't been able to get rid of what I saw. In my dream I was browsing for music in a music store when I was kidnapped and tied up by three divas of the apocalypse Pasty Cline, Janis Joplin, and Billie Holiday. They told me they were going rise from the grave and start smoting any girls or women with tops smaller than a hand towel and skirts shorter than 12" ruler because of how they have ruined all the equality women have striven for buy smutting themselves out in trampy music videos and in public by dressing in such a lurid fashion that does not become a true lady. Then they will call upon their male counter parts, Marvin Gaye, John Lennon, Buddy Holly to cast all the boys and men into hell with pant waists worn lower than their body waistline who write obnoxious whiny crap rock with no real message. And when all is said done and hell hath been wrought the world will be reborn in a grand revolution of decency and morals once again. The earth will be called Gaia and we will enter the second age of enlightenment and people will rise up and take down those in powers who kill our children in wars based on lies, and in hospitals because it increases profits.

Answer 6

No one really knows for sure but there are numerous possibilities. One- the sun can die and cause a supernova and cause the earth to be no more. Two- asteroids crashing into earth. Three-artificial means like corrupt governments having war.

Hope i helped you in some way.

Answer 7

About 5 billion years from now, the Sun will go into the red giant phase and may swallow the Earth. Even if it doesn't, the Earth will be a dry, lifeless cinder.

Answer 8

If you want a more detailed answer, read the book of Revelations in the Bible. In short, God is going to destroy the world with fire.

Answer 9

For you and me , just after we stop breathing .....
I think according to Nostredamus it ended about seven years ago, so much for predictions eh?

Answer 10

Not with a bang, but with a whimper