When and how do you think the world will end?

Question

I think itll end in the next ten years, eventually our technology will take over.

Answer 1

You've been watching too much Terminator mate. However, it worries me that there are still so many nuclear bombs around, the law of averages suggests one will go off sooner or later.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

I am pleased that you have raised this subject. Not sure that the world will "end" as you say, but here is something for all of us to think about. I appologise for the expression....but....on the "off chance" that the Christians have got it right (and i am one of them), there are millions of people across the world who are in for ONE HELL OF A SHOCK very soon.

Let me explain. When Christ comes back and judges the whole world, then those who know God will join Him in heaven. Those who don't know Him, will spend the rest of time on the earth, probably having a really bad time. In fact I think there is a suggetion somewhere in the Bible of man turning to nuclear war, but I think this is probably after Christ has returned.
Let me continue. I suggest that many people reading this do not know the urgency of this. Christ could come back in maybe ten years, maybe a few years, maybe a few months, or very soon indeed! I would very much like my family to go to a "better place". Do you want your family to go to a "better place"? Even if you are not a believer, wouldn't you want that for your family? I'm sure most of us do!

I suggest again that this is urgent, and perhaps people reading this should look at Chistianity more closely. IT WILL HAPPEN VERY SOON.

As for what remains on the earth...

Answer 4

I don't think the world will ever end. Maybe as we know it now, with all the technological advances. I think our world ends when we die and the apocalypse is judgement day as in our acceptance to heaven or whatever but i think earth will be around for a long time yet! x

Answer 5

10 years from technology overtaking us? interesting... i hear there is an arnold movie about that one!

i think it will be a gradual decline. i think it will end with people fighting each other until we end up wiping each other out. if thats what happens, then i give it 50-100 years, but even then, there would be little pockets of survivors, so the actual END may be hundreds or even thousands of years away.

Answer 6

Probably by the sun exploding and engulfing it but life as we know it could be ended with a meteor strike. the sun expansion or explosion event is probably several million year in the future but the meteor strike could in theory be any time. Fortunately Saturn mops up most of the large meteors so not many come out way

Answer 7

Why should the world end? We have been told for centuries that the "end is near" . We don't know when the world began. Science is searching for the moment the world began . I wouldn't worry about it . All things in good time.

Answer 8

You know what you remind me of Carl Sagan. If we could survive the technological adolecence the world would not end...or may be in the eighth millenium when God comes ...at the End of Days...Not the schewarzennegger end of days ..I mean the real end of days.

Answer 9

I don't paticularly think that it will end entirely. maybe there will be some nucular war, but the world won't just end. thats terminator. the development of nucular weapons is a big threat to our world, but we aren't at war with every country? There are not a large number of countrys in nucular activity. I think the world won't just end.

Answer 10

I think we will explode from all the heat from global warming but I don't have a clue when, or out of space creatures will take over the world and kill everyone and that would be the end of us.