How will the world end?

[Ashleyxoxo]

Yes, I'm conflating the end of the Earth with the end of the universe, because "world" can mean either thing. How will it literally go down?

[PC2]

My guess is the world ends up being roasted by the sun and billions of people live comfortably in artificial man-made environments further away from the sun. From that point on it could take us billions of years to address the heat death problem and solve it. Also my guess is that ageing will be solved before any of that happens.

None of this is relevant in our lifetimes though.

[Elegiac]

Statistically speaking, it'll be self inflicted.

[ranzino]

end of earth is easy to calculate: sun will engulf earth during the short red giant phase; but photosynthesis will stop much earlier, which will erase all plants and each other living organism of higher level in the process.

afaik heat death for universe is the uncertain version, big freeze is more likely

if humankind wants to survive, we will have to leave solar system first within ~300m years and finally find a way to escape a dying universe. even if we achieve the first we may fail the latter goal.

[Tuor]

I'm reading the cards just right now...

... O wait...

/corrosive mode off

[Corvus]

With a whimper, not a bang.

[Shadowferal]

Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our Rice Crispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all the suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can take
Many miles away something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake

Another industrial ugly morning
The factory belches filth into the sky
He walks unhindered through the picket lines today
He doesn't think to wonder why
The secretaries pout and preen like cheap tarts on a red light street
But all he ever thinks to do is watch
And every single meeting with his so called superior Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
Many miles away something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish Loch

Another working day has ended
Only the rush-hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now looming in his headlight
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away there's a shadow on a door
Of a cottage by the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake
Many miles away

[Daedius]

Man made situation would be a given. Not end of the world, but ruination of the norm.

[Tulune]

Robert Frost sums it up nicely for me,
"Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice."

[beanman12345]

The end of humanity? Well, we're in the clear for extinction level asteroids for at least 100 years, though humans making ourselves extinct will likely happen relatively soon after, if we don't nuke ourselves to death before than, who fucking knows if that ticking time bomb will go off or is a dud, so could be either, but based on the statistics, I'm going man-made. Humanity will be gone or at least endangered species in the next couple hundred years, even though some rando who has actively argued they are mentally challenged might dismiss that.

End of world as in the Earth is no more, will likely be the sun engulfing it. Humanity isn't gonna end the world, we'll just end ourselves and most current living organisms.

[Nihilist74]

Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our Rice Crispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all the suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can take
Many miles away something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake

Another industrial ugly morning
The factory belches filth into the sky
He walks unhindered through the picket lines today
He doesn't think to wonder why
The secretaries pout and preen like cheap tarts on a red light street
But all he ever thinks to do is watch
And every single meeting with his so called superior Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
Many miles away something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish Loch

Another working day has ended
Only the rush-hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now looming in his headlight
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away there's a shadow on a door
Of a cottage by the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake
Many miles away

I love the police. Especially this song synchronicity 2.

I think humans will continue to overpopulate the earth. I think humans might release a genetically engineered virus on purpose or by accident that kills most of humanity.

[PC2]

I think humans will continue to overpopulate the earth.

The world is not even close to being overpopulated. How are you making that judgement?

I think humans might release a genetically engineered virus on purpose or by accident that kills most of humanity.

It seems like you are having very morbid thoughts. Maybe too morbid.

[muto]

I think the most likely is a large solar flare that would destroy our atmosphere.

I don’t think it will be man made though. Ironically nukes are what is keeping the peace. Countries with nukes aren’t going to go firing them at each other, because they will get a bunch fired right back at them. I think the scariest thing with nukes is one somehow falling into the hands of a terrorist group and them detonating it in a urban area.

Climate change is possible too though if we keep using fossil fuels on a large scale for the long foreseeable future as well as continue to destroy rain forests.

[Low Hanging Fruit]

The point the sun swells and engulfs the Earth. If it gets that far out. If not, then it will probably be around for a really.. really.. really long time. Either a crispy remnants of what it once was floating around a stellar core or if pushed out far enough just floating around as a rogue planet.

[Shadowferal]

I love the police. Especially this song synchronicity 2.

It seemed to l suggest to me that humans will die a slow overdue death mindlessly following a daily routine...

I think humans will continue to overpopulate the earth. I think humans might release a genetically engineered virus on purpose or by accident that kills most of humanity.

And worse, some people stupidly insist on ignoring it.

[Fencers]

Human civilization, man made.

The planet itself, heat death of the Universe.

[kail]

My guess is the world ends up being roasted by the sun and billions of people live comfortably in artificial man-made environments further away from the sun. From that point on it could take us billions of years to address the heat death conjecture and solve it. Also my guess is that ageing will be solved long before any of that happens.

None of this is relevant in our lifetimes though.

Could be possible, but it's just as likely that humans as a species end up extinct. Maybe not in our lifetimes but it's a little arrogant to presume we will survive w/e form of apocalypse heads our way.

[Ursus]

Robert Frost sums it up nicely for me,
"Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice."

I prefer Maynard James Keenan:

"Some say a comet will fall from the sky
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves
Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits"

[Jotaux]

The world doesn't end just because we do, so unless we are going to blow up the planet I don't think it would be man made. An asteroid wouldn't explode the planet either. I guess that leaves the sun burning the planet or heat death of the universe?

[monkfailz]

Humanity will be their own demise.