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James
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USA
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 Posted - 05/01/2002 : 18:30:26 [Permalink]
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Or the demented giggle of a Soopreme Being that forgot to take it's meds?
Sometimes I wonder if this ain't happening already...
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Bruce
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Posted - 05/09/2002 : 19:07:49 [Permalink]
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The ONE will free us from the Matrix. We'll figure out what the real problems are from there.
Seriously, though. I think we will run out of water due to an expanding sun before anything.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/earthsfate000220.html
"Hippies, everywhere, help, Hippies. They all want to save the world, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad. Hippies." -Cartman |
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Lars_H
SFN Regular
Germany
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Posted - 05/10/2002 : 05:27:16 [Permalink]
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Or the demented giggle of a Soopreme Being that forgot to take it's meds?
Sometimes I wonder if this ain't happening already...
According to this Onion news story it has:
God Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder
As for the end of the world, we may have only until March 16, 2880AD to do it ourselces, because acording to NASA at this point there Asteroid 1950 DA might end it for us.
I am very worried about both developments.
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jec96
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 05/14/2002 : 17:00:20 [Permalink]
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The end will come with the time of the great hankey..read the prophet, Douglas Adams....ooooommmmmm...
-It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
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gezzam
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Australia
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Posted - 07/15/2002 : 08:32:21 [Permalink]
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I think that the world will end by some kind of natural catastrophe....well I suppose that's a given when the sun finally expires...
Civilisation, I am not quite sure about. We may destroy ourselves in a nuclear holocaust, we may drive ourselves to extinction however I doubt that but i voted for the option that we may go forth into space and prosper...
Anyway, as long as it is after my body gets burnt and scattered into the Southern Ocean I don't really care....
"Damn you people. Go back to your shanties." --- Shooter McGavin
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Slater
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USA
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Posted - 07/16/2002 : 19:00:28 [Permalink]
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We may destroy ourselves in a nuclear holocaust, we may drive ourselves to extinction...
Species only last so long. They don't actually have to go extinct because they all died. Eventually we will evolve into something else. Something that isn't as intelligent as we are is a distinct possibility. Evolution isn't "progress" it's only change. The time will come when we will have changed into something else entirely. It happens to everything there is no reason we will be spared.
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My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ---Thomas Henry Huxley, 1860 |
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chaloobi
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Posted - 04/07/2004 : 10:59:06 [Permalink]
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| The simple answer is the world isn't going to end. At least not until our sun burns itself out, and that won't be for many billions of years. That said, I recognize the author considers the end of humanity to be synonymous with the end of the world. Fine. Every species comes to one end or another, though some, like the sharks, tortoises, and aligators have lasted quite a long time in comparison to most others. Lately I've been thinking that while our civilization is likely to collapse sooner rather than later under the weight of human population and activity, I don't think it necessarly means our extinction. There'll likely be whole regions that even maintain some level of technical capability, surviving long into the future, having learned some valuable lessons about economics and the dangers of frivolous mass consumption. |
-Chaloobi
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Pandora
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USA
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Posted - 04/26/2004 : 14:51:06 [Permalink]
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| The end of everything including time will come with (google) "the big splat." String theory predicts no end, just continuous brane collisions. If string theory is correct, there was also no beginning. |
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ljbrs
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 05/03/2004 : 18:26:06 [Permalink]
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Our planet will end for certain when the Sun becomes a red giant and engulfs us. Of course, by that time (approximately 4 billion years), many other possibilities exist for the end of life on earth. However, it is over for good when the Sun goes red giant. Then again, at approximately the same time (4 billion years), Andromeda and the Milky Way will complete their merging and will shuffle things around a bit. Although very few stars (including our Sun) will collide, there will be gravitational disturbances throughout both galaxies. Andromeda and the Milky Way will probably pass by each other many, many times before the two galaxies finally merge.
At present, the Milky Way is gobbling up some of the smaller galaxies. There is the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy which is getting munched and the Magellanic Clouds are slowly merging with "The Galaxy" (Milky Way). Not to worry, however, because life should be long gone around the Sun before most of this takes place. I think that humans will do a pretty good job of getting rid of life on Earth long before the merging with Andromeda.
Cheers!
ljbrs |
"Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve about these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds."
Giordano Bruno
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