Can it happen in our life time.
2007-10-19 16:52:37 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Comet or asteroid crashes to Earth and sends a shock-wave setting off volcanoes and earthquakes. Entering the atmosphere it heats the worldwide temperature enough to melt all ice and the oceans rise to cover the entire planet. It hits in the Pacific Ocean and sends a tidal wave 1000 feet high rippling around the world. A cloud of hot gasses and vapor encompasses the Earth that blocks the sun and destroys crops for years. Surviving people have no food and pandemonium erupts. Military has to try to obtain order and is inundated with corruption and starts a war within. Only the wealthiest people can survive but run out of food and are not able to obtain more. Starvation kills all life and the Earth goes on to do what it does without the presence of humans or any other life.
2007-10-19 17:19:13 · answer #1 · answered by boworl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-10-20 01:19:17 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you talk of the 'end of the world', are you talking about the end of civilization, the end of mankind or the end of Earth itself?
Human civilization, or recorded history, has been around for less than ten thousand years, a tiny part of Earth's existence. Several 'civilizations' have come and gone during that time. I think its very likely that the present state of mankind will collapse in the not too distant future.(overpopulation, terrorism, starvation, lack of resources) After that, it will take hundreds of years to recover.
'End of the world', is a phrase that comes from religions, with the assumption that mankind is the only reason Earth exists. Even if humans exist for another half a million years, the earth will go on for a few more billion years, and it will end by natural forces.
2007-10-20 00:57:45 · answer #3 · answered by TRAF 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the world were to end, it will happen due to natural reasons like oceans taking over the land, tsunami, earth quakes etc. There is also a rare possibility of nuclear /chemical war and the entire world may disappear.
I do not think it will happen during our life time.
2007-10-20 00:12:59 · answer #4 · answered by lakshmikant a 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋