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ournamestoolong
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10/25/2009 8:45:29 AM
Posted: 3 weeks ago
My 6 favorite ways the world will end
1.2012

Now just to be clear, I don't buy the traditional Mayan prophecy that blood will rain from the sky, due to the Mayan calendar ending, and that Hell's fire will leap out and kill all of those in its path, however the origin of the idea intrigues me.

The Mayan's were incredible in the fields of astronomy. They were not only able to theorize that Earth rotates around the Sun, but that the Sun rotates around the galaxy, and that the Earth wobbles on its axis. The Earth will have made one full turn on December 21, 2012. Go figure.

Now if the world WILL end that day, it will be because everyone will be overreacting to the prediction. After all, the U.S. wouldn't want to leave all these nukes lying around at the end of the world.

2.Y3K

Why is there something about zeros that makes everyone go crazy? Now I'm sure that you all know about the Y2K incident in 2000 A.D. over the fact that the year had an exceptional amount of zeros in it. It wasn't 2000 years after Jesus was born, that happened in 2001.

So obviously the world will end on the next year with an abnormally large number of zeros.

3.The Big Rip

This is a very interesting, and scientific theory. The Universe expands, right? Well, the rate of expansion is getting faster, and there is more and more space between things. This means things get farther apart and gravity can no longer hold onto them. This causes galaxy clusters to be ripped apart, then, as things get farther apart, galaxies themselves. Then you move onto solar systems that are ripped apart, then planets, onto the particles that make up our bodies, until our grand Universe is leveled to nothing more than several Quarks floating in the vastness of space.

4.Aliens

I am in the minority in that I believe that it is certain that ET exist. Think about it. It's like taking 3 billion Petri dishes in different environments, eventually; two will have the same result. Similarly, they probably won't like us. I mean, who would? The human race is screwed up. They will probably bomb our entire planet (Probably with anti-matter). Thankfully, we won't be able to find them with current technology, so we will have the home court, maybe those nukes won't e laying around at the end of the world.

5.Nuclear war

We came really close to blowing eachother up at the cold war, and We may still nuke Iraq, or Iran, or Pakistan, or China, or any other country we don't like. We have enough nukes to destroy the world 7 times over, so it's bound to happen. I think we should make everyone send their nukes to Jupiter and blow them up, just to be safe.

6.Someone wakes up

I enjoy this one, partly because of its philosophical meaning. What if we don't exist, or only exist in a dream, and someone wakes up. If this is true, we are F*cked, but
it probably isn't, and its interesting to think about.
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ournamestoolong
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10/25/2009 9:17:08 AM
Posted: 3 weeks ago
At 10/25/2009 8:47:12 AM, theLwerd wrote:
Obama the anti-Christ loses the re-election and goes off the deep end! Mwahaha!

I actually knowa few people who think that. Its pretty scary.
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10/25/2009 9:41:39 AM
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Best way for the world to end? A religious war after Science concludes God doesn't exist. Dave Mustaine will be the last man standing, torn between atheism and Born-Again Christianity. He'll probably off himself.
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10/26/2009 12:24:19 PM
Posted: 3 weeks ago
At 10/25/2009 9:41:39 AM, I-am-a-panda wrote:
Best way for the world to end? A religious war after Science concludes God doesn't exist. Dave Mustaine will be the last man standing, torn between atheism and Born-Again Christianity. He'll probably off himself.

Agreed.
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10/26/2009 2:22:19 PM
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At 10/25/2009 8:45:29 AM, ournamestoolong wrote:
Why is there something about zeros that makes everyone go crazy? Now I'm sure that you all know about the Y2K incident in 2000 A.D. over the fact that the year had an exceptional amount of zeros in it. It wasn't 2000 years after Jesus was born, that happened in 2001.

So obviously the world will end on the next year with an abnormally large number of zeros.

Yes. But what everyone forgets it that computers are binary. So it needs to be binary zeroes. So the next big flip will happen 03:14:08 UTC on 19 January 2038, where all 32-bit unix computers will flip a bit, and suddenly they will think it's 1901.

http://en.wikipedia.org...

I am in the minority in that I believe that it is certain that ET exist.

Me too. But I also believe that interstellar travel is practically impossible. Because if it wasn't, then some culture out there would have found it, and they would subsequently go all around the universe to trade, to become richer.

It's like discovering practical ocean going boats. As soon as that happened, every little puny island around the world had been claimed by European dudes. If interstellar travel is possible, they would be here. And they aren't.

7. Personally, I think the universe will end when the guy who runs the universe-simulator has gotten enough data and terminates the program. :-)
So prove me wrong, then.
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10/26/2009 4:52:26 PM
Posted: 3 weeks ago
At 10/26/2009 2:22:19 PM, regebro wrote:
Me too. But I also believe that interstellar travel is practically impossible. Because if it wasn't, then some culture out there would have found it, and they would subsequently go all around the universe to trade, to become richer.

It's like discovering practical ocean going boats. As soon as that happened, every little puny island around the world had been claimed by European dudes. If interstellar travel is possible, they would be here. And they aren't.

"Ocean going boats" have always been possible, but it wasn't always happening. What about the years before seafaring technology was developed?
mongeese
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10/26/2009 5:36:20 PM
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At 10/26/2009 2:22:19 PM, regebro wrote:
But I also believe that interstellar travel is practically impossible. Because if it wasn't, then some culture out there would have found it, and they would subsequently go all around the universe to trade, to become richer.
The above was true for millions of years until boats were actually invented.
It's like discovering practical ocean going boats. As soon as that happened, every little puny island around the world had been claimed by European dudes. If interstellar travel is possible, they would be here. And they aren't.
No, they'll be here when they invent the technology. If the Americans concluded that because the Europeans hadn't arrived yet, they never would, they'd be stupid.
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GeoLaureate8
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10/26/2009 10:31:44 PM
Posted: 3 weeks ago
The Mayans didn't predict the end of the world. In their own writings they predicted, or rather calculated, the end of a long cycle, and the beginning of a new world age. Nothing about wiping out humanity or destroying the earth.

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regebro
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10/27/2009 12:59:55 AM
Posted: 3 weeks ago
At 10/26/2009 10:31:44 PM, GeoLaureate8 wrote:
The Mayans didn't predict the end of the world. In their own writings they predicted, or rather calculated, the end of a long cycle, and the beginning of a new world age. Nothing about wiping out humanity or destroying the earth.

Wow. You surprise me. You swallow loads of weirdo theories, but not this one? Why not?

Oh well. I guess it's not a conspiracy...
So prove me wrong, then.