The End of the World Thread!
Okay, because I'm bored and I visited a certain website tailored to explaining the many ways why we are all going to die :xx: I decided to make a thread about it here! Here's a few descriptions of some of the most interesting ones. Vote the one that seems most likey IYO!
Yellowstone Supervolcanoe: Infrared Satallite images of yellowstone in the 60's discovered a giant caldera covering the whole park 80x45 kilometers. The Yellowstone Supervolcanoe is thought to go off every 600,000 years by clockwork. It is now 40,000 years overdue! An eruption of this magnitude would be 2,400 times great then Mt. St Helen's, wiping out most life within 1,000 kilometers from the deadly ash, and enough lava to blanket the entire USA 5 inches thick! Here's a thought, what if some crazy terrorist acquires a MOAB or bomb of that magnitute, and decides to set it off in yellowstone? Would the shock wave be enough to wake up the volcanoe from its slumber?
Scientific Experiment gone wrong: with particle accelerators, we are creating tempuratures and conditions that existed right at the beginning of the Universe's creation. What if, by some shot, we accidently create another big bang from a particle collision? There are also other things to think about that we are also creating conditions which do not exist or come naturally in the universe. For example, we have a created a tempurature are close to zero! We pretty much created a hole new form of matter this way, and as far as we know, there's no other condition, or matter like it! With so many experiments being done and so new steps taken, how do we know that the next one might be our last?
Nuclear Warefare: All it takes is one. Before only Russia and United States had nuclear weapons, along with Britain and a few other allies. Now that list has expanded to many third world countries like Pakistan and India, which just recently were very close to an all-out nuclear exchange. What if India overreacted and invaded Pakistan in retaliation from some terrorist shooting up their parliament again? In desperation, Pakistan fires a nuke and both of them slug it out until it escalades, and soon we have radioactive clouds covering the earth, and growing an extra limb will be the least of our problems...
Asteroid Impact: 100's of asteroids pass through earth's orbit around the sun each year. Its basically a crapshoot, but with very low odds that one will impact us. But it only takes one to have devastating results on the Earth. An asteroid just one mile wide that impacts earth will be the equivilant of a few thousands nukes going off in force. If it impacts the water, the mega-tsunami will reach shorelines and kill billions of people. If the asteroid impacts land, massive dust and debree will be thrown, blanketing the atmosphere and sending the earth into another ice age...
Hypernovae: Next to supermassive black holes, the most destructive force in the Universe. A Hupernovae is basically a really friggin' large star expanding [after it runs out of hydrogen] so fast that the visual from it can be seen billions of miles away. A shock wave from a Hypernovae, if it reaches earth, will bombard the us with lethal doses of radiation; enough that the magnetosphere wont block. But that doesnt really matter though, because we'll all be incinerated from the intense heat as it burns through our atmosphere and exposes what little surivors are left to the cold, uninviting space.
Supervirus: If the aids virus could survive outside the human body for just a few seconds or a minute, its a safe bet that billions, instead of millions, would've already been dead. Many of these viruses are emerging from places where we have not explored earlier, either due to logging or new settlements. What if there's a supervirus out there thats almost like aids, but travels through the air? What if some crazy fool out there with a brain for science figures out a way to engineer the aids virus to survive outside the hosts body for short periods of time?
Others: Alien invasions? Cosmic events? Anything else you want to add to the list, and why, you name it. Personally, if I had to place my bets, it would be:
1. Nuclear warfare
2. Supervirus
3. Yellowstone Volcanoe
As my top three candidates. Yeah, I've been in a paranoia mode lately because I visted Armagaddon Online (great time-waister website!). So just for fun I decided to start a conversation here. SO for those asking: I'm not mad... completely....
Okay, because I'm bored and I visited a certain website tailored to explaining the many ways why we are all going to die :xx: I decided to make a thread about it here! Here's a few descriptions of some of the most interesting ones. Vote the one that seems most likey IYO!
Yellowstone Supervolcanoe: Infrared Satallite images of yellowstone in the 60's discovered a giant caldera covering the whole park 80x45 kilometers. The Yellowstone Supervolcanoe is thought to go off every 600,000 years by clockwork. It is now 40,000 years overdue! An eruption of this magnitude would be 2,400 times great then Mt. St Helen's, wiping out most life within 1,000 kilometers from the deadly ash, and enough lava to blanket the entire USA 5 inches thick! Here's a thought, what if some crazy terrorist acquires a MOAB or bomb of that magnitute, and decides to set it off in yellowstone? Would the shock wave be enough to wake up the volcanoe from its slumber?
Scientific Experiment gone wrong: with particle accelerators, we are creating tempuratures and conditions that existed right at the beginning of the Universe's creation. What if, by some shot, we accidently create another big bang from a particle collision? There are also other things to think about that we are also creating conditions which do not exist or come naturally in the universe. For example, we have a created a tempurature are close to zero! We pretty much created a hole new form of matter this way, and as far as we know, there's no other condition, or matter like it! With so many experiments being done and so new steps taken, how do we know that the next one might be our last?
Nuclear Warefare: All it takes is one. Before only Russia and United States had nuclear weapons, along with Britain and a few other allies. Now that list has expanded to many third world countries like Pakistan and India, which just recently were very close to an all-out nuclear exchange. What if India overreacted and invaded Pakistan in retaliation from some terrorist shooting up their parliament again? In desperation, Pakistan fires a nuke and both of them slug it out until it escalades, and soon we have radioactive clouds covering the earth, and growing an extra limb will be the least of our problems...
Asteroid Impact: 100's of asteroids pass through earth's orbit around the sun each year. Its basically a crapshoot, but with very low odds that one will impact us. But it only takes one to have devastating results on the Earth. An asteroid just one mile wide that impacts earth will be the equivilant of a few thousands nukes going off in force. If it impacts the water, the mega-tsunami will reach shorelines and kill billions of people. If the asteroid impacts land, massive dust and debree will be thrown, blanketing the atmosphere and sending the earth into another ice age...
Hypernovae: Next to supermassive black holes, the most destructive force in the Universe. A Hupernovae is basically a really friggin' large star expanding [after it runs out of hydrogen] so fast that the visual from it can be seen billions of miles away. A shock wave from a Hypernovae, if it reaches earth, will bombard the us with lethal doses of radiation; enough that the magnetosphere wont block. But that doesnt really matter though, because we'll all be incinerated from the intense heat as it burns through our atmosphere and exposes what little surivors are left to the cold, uninviting space.
Supervirus: If the aids virus could survive outside the human body for just a few seconds or a minute, its a safe bet that billions, instead of millions, would've already been dead. Many of these viruses are emerging from places where we have not explored earlier, either due to logging or new settlements. What if there's a supervirus out there thats almost like aids, but travels through the air? What if some crazy fool out there with a brain for science figures out a way to engineer the aids virus to survive outside the hosts body for short periods of time?
Others: Alien invasions? Cosmic events? Anything else you want to add to the list, and why, you name it. Personally, if I had to place my bets, it would be:
1. Nuclear warfare
2. Supervirus
3. Yellowstone Volcanoe
As my top three candidates. Yeah, I've been in a paranoia mode lately because I visted Armagaddon Online (great time-waister website!). So just for fun I decided to start a conversation here. SO for those asking: I'm not mad... completely....
