The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: kevindavis007 on September 14, 2014, 05:15:15 pm
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There’s no denying we have a cultural obsession with the end days—we dedicate countless hours of creative energy envisioning the destruction of the world. But let’s imagine, for once, that humans manage to survive the zombie apocalypse or the spread of a super virus or catastrophic climate change without wiping out the planet's biodiversity. What would the End look like if we don't cause it?
Science, it so happens, leaves little room for imagination. Most of us know that billions of years from now, our little blue planet is going to go up in flames, when our dying sun splatters fiery bursts of plasma all over the solar system. But this dramatic finale is really just life’s epilogue. Well before the sun scorches its surface, life on Earth will have slowly slipped away, over the course of several billion years.
“The end of life on Earth will look a lot like early evolution of our planet, but in reverse,” said Jack O’Malley-James, a recent graduate of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, who could aptly be described as having a PhD in The End of the World.
Read more at: http://interstellar-news.blogspot.com/2014/09/how-world-will-actually-end.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iauIP8swfBY
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We had better set up a government department, to prevent the end of the world.
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We had better set up a government department, to prevent the end of the world.
Nah......have the senate pass a law forbidding the end of the world. Wait....hashtag could be the answer
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Nah......have the senate pass a law forbidding the end of the world. Wait....hashtag could be the answer
It will be Bush's fault.
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I am more interested in mankind's end than the earth's end.
Personally, I'd bet on our being the cause of our own demise before I'd bet on natural causes. I think the chances of nuclear war, lab-created viruses or even out-of-control artificial intelligence killing us off are far greater than the possibility that we'll be around millions or billions of years. I'd be surprised if human civilization lasted even another thousand years. We've had a good two or three generation run of relative stability, but that's an anomaly and a microsecond in comparison to God's frame of reference.
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We've had a good two or three generation run of relative stability, but that's an anomaly and a microsecond in comparison to God's frame of reference.
God has already told us how the world will end.
As usual, 'science' tells a story that is the complete opposite.
Shocking...