How Will the World End?


View Poll Results: How Will the World End?
Human industrial processes destroy the environment (Pollution) 17 21.52%
Crazy people unleash a deadly Virus (Politics) 12 15.19%
Earth is hit by an Asteroid and Blots out the Sun (Darkness) 12 15.19%
Other (Personal Beliefs) 10 12.66%
Red giant expansion of our Sun burns up the Earth (Fire) 10 12.66%
War (ilikecows) 9 11.39%
Someone Stumbles and Hits the Big Red Button by Accident (hergp) 7 8.86%
The Big Crunch (Science, Physics) 7 8.86%
The Mices will run out of Money for their Experiment and the Whole Planet will be Transformed into a Big Cookie. (zaxxon) 7 8.86%
Our Sun slowly dies and we freeze to death (Brrrrr) 6 7.59%
Overpopulation causing resources run out (ShouTenraku) 5 6.33%
Hungry Aliens come from Far Far Away and Eat Us (Sci Fi) 4 5.06%
Scientists trying to simulate a black hole will succeed. It will be as good as the real thing. (ni2) 2 2.53%
Zombie Apocalypse (bipinajith) 1 1.27%
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# 15  
Old 11-16-2010
We needn't worry about the end, if the epistemologists would have it: there is no past and no future, there is only a present.
# 16  
Old 11-16-2010
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Originally Posted by figaro
We needn't worry about the end, if the epistemologists would have it: there is no past and no future, there is only a present.
I don't care... my tax return was posted on time.

If anything is going to happen, let it, before they send me a present (i,.e. the bill) Smilie
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# 17  
Old 11-26-2010
The last post was a week ago. Did I sleep through a cataclysmic event?
# 18  
Old 11-26-2010
It gets bumped whenever anyone votes, whether they post or not.
# 19  
Old 04-06-2011
Some spiritual things may cause to the end.
# 20  
Old 04-06-2011
Well, I picked the giant sun thing. But I think somewhat literally. I'm pretty sure that the sun will eventually destroy the world. Not so sure that this event will destroy the human race.
# 21  
Old 04-06-2011
We will all be sucked into a black hole.
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