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In reply to the discussion: How Americans think the world will end, in charts [View all]tularetom
(23,664 posts)41. The world will end when the sun expands and turns it into space dust
Life on earth will end a few million years before that happens and human life will probably be among the first life forms to face extinction. I envision a sort of reverse evolution or devolution as humans adapt to changing climatic and geological conditions, until we're all basically anaerobic bacteria just before we become cinders.
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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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