DU'ers, when do expect the world to end?

[PartyPooper]

I just dunno.

There's so much turmoil all around...especially in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East. And, *cough*, Junior just got "re-elected." :eyes:

Then there's the tsunami in Southeast Asia. :-(

And, there's global warming.

What's next? How much more can we possibly take?

:cry:

[MercutioATC]

1. When our stupidity finally outruns our luck.

[paula777]

19. Exactly

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Right after...

They call last call at the bar. ;-)

[Fridays Child]

3. It already did. We just haven't caught up, yet.

[Robeson]

4. Please clarify....

...When will the world end? Or when will the human race end?

[azoth]

6. Yep yep.

Mother Earth will keep on keepin' on long after our little short-sighted self-important carbon-based bodies are just so much fertilizer and fossilage.

Do you ever wonder what the archaeologists will think about US? Just imagine the Discover channel specials. Yikes.

[TransitJohn]

14. Well I think the opposite

that the human species will figure out a way to outlive the Earth. We've been pretty ingenious at converting resources so far. Our destiny is the stars.

[azoth]

17. You think, really?

I mean, in two centuries we've pretty much hosed ourselves and the very planet that nurtured us into our racial adolescence. We're making the place inhospitable to ourselves faster than Earth can regenerate herself...or at least it looks that way to me.

I'd love to think that my great grandkids will see the moons rise on some far and distant carbon-based-lifeform-friendly planet. However, I don't think I'm optimistic enough to think that the race as a whole will survive *intact* enough to make that happen. We'd have to really come together as a global society before that will work - and I don't see that happening in the near future.

One can wish, though. That is what *hope* is all about. :)

[TransitJohn]

24. Oh yeah

Definitely. Humanity will get "out there." I am not certain that if we do hose the planet too much for our own continued livelihood, that my genes would be picked to send out there, though.

[Baja Margie]

5. I dunno

we're living in some pretty strange times, on borrowed time.

[Solon]

7. For us, a century tops...

Hey I like being an optimist :), for the Earth, another 4 billion years or so, when the Sun, swollen into a Red Giant, swallows the planet and burns it to cinders.

[R3dD0g]

8. It's already ended.

We're just too stupid to realize it. Kind'a like a chicken w/o a head.

[nickgutierrez]

9. When the republicans control all three branches of government.

Wait a minute... shit.

We're fucked.

[Benhurst]

10. Bad news: mankind probably will go extinct. Good news: life will

continue.

If the birds survive our abuse of the planet, and current theories are correct about their lineage, we may be nothing more than a brief anomoly in the Age of Dinosaurs.

[Robeson]

12. Good Point....

[The empressof all]

11. When I die of course....

After all I am the center of my own universe. :)

[BlueJazz]

13. I believe the Earth will be hit by an Asteroid.

When ?...Don't know but our planet has been hit several times in the past and there's no reason to think it's not going to happen again.

PLUS

An Asteroid only 1-2 miles wide would destroy life on earth.
Asteroids travel 30-40 miles per second. (In a minute and a half could travel from LA to New York)
An object traveling at that speed would be coming so fast that by the time anybody was aware of it, it would be too late.. WAY too late...

To those who say that Asteroids travel in predictable orbits...you're right...or should I say 99.9 percent right but since there's tens of thousands of the damn things, sooner or later that 1/10 of one percent is going to doom us all.
Remember, We've been hit several times in the past and there's no reason why it won't happen again.

Even a blind man, if given enough chances, will play a perfect game of pool....

[ladjf]

15. When the sun becomes a red giant, (less than 500M years),

the Earth will be a cauldron of molten material. I'm not implying that we should be concerned, only making the point that there is a finite closure for Earth life, barring some sort of intervention.

[derby378]

22. Ad Astra, baby!

But I like your answer the best. Maybe Antarctica will drift back onto the equator just in time for the Big Roast.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Depends upon what * has for breakfast on any given day . . .

[AccessGranted]

18. When The Bush Cartel Tells The Truth

And we know that's not happening anytime soon, if ever. If they ever admitted the truth I don't think that the earth could support the weight of everyone simultaneously fainting in shock and awe!

[Misunderestimator]

20. Given that our days are now 3 milliseconds shorter... it will be coming

sooner...

[Wapsie B]

21. When we finally take control of the voting apparatus

in this country from the repugs.

[420inTN]

23. By the "end of the world", do you mean:

A) The sun goes becomes a red giant and engulfs our planet.
B) We render the planet uninhabitable due to war/global warming/nuclear fallout?