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Showing Original Post only (View all)How Americans think the world will end, in charts [View all]
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/12/8194903/apocalypse-causes-pollAmericans have varying ideas on how the world will end, from nuclear war to a direct act of God to zombies.
About two-thirds of Americans told online pollster YouGov that they have given little or no thought to preparing for the apocalypse. But when asked to elaborate on the most likely end-of-the-world scenario, Americans showed off their partisan differences and some similarities.
David Mendoza at the Mendoza Line charted the YouGov survey's findings on how people think the world will end:
More graphs for population subsets at the link
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I can't recall, but I think there's a stage of solar evolution a few billion years down the road
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Apr 2015
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I vote "Lord Asriel's even-crazier followers start blasting interdimensional portals
MisterP
Apr 2015
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