That depends if and when we get off the earth. And when we develop the power to destroy the sun although the truth is that we already have machines that could end the universe. Not that it's likely to happen.
ChesneyChrist: That depends if and when we get off the earth. And when we develop the power to destroy the sun although the truth is that we already have machines that could end the universe. Not that it's likely to happen.
No idea who you are, but you don't half talk nonsense sometimes..
We do not have machines that could end the universe..and we never will either...ditto the sun
SimonLSAdelaide, South Australia Australia28 posts
I guess I'm a bit more selective about what I discuss, while some people will babble on about absolutely everything and anything. I guess you already know that though
PeKaatjeAnkeveen, North Holland Netherlands6,334 posts
I think we all will go out with a big bang, nuclear war. The sun expanding/becoming a black hole is expected over more than one million years from now. Or maybe there will be so much overpopulation that we can't grow enough food for everybody, then there might be a total war on food, people fighting in stores etc.
I think it will be a combination of several things you included in the poll plus things you haven't thought of. It's going to be pretty grand and exciting.
I would venture that the better-phrased question would be:
How The World Will End Again?
In studying cultures round the world, every one that I can recall has a destruction or Deluge myth. Many also tell of wars fought between the Gods in Heaven.
Thousands of years before Scripture was written the Sumarians wrote of something very akin to a Garden of Eden and a Deluge.
The Ancient Indians, in the Mahabharata, wrote of flying machines called Vimanas -- some small, others as large as cities -- that were used to launch powerful weapons of destruction:
"The Earth shook, scorched by the terrible heat of this weapon. Elephants burst into flames and ran to and fro in a frenzy, seeking a protection from terror. Over a vast area other animals crumpled to the ground and died. The waters boiled, and the creatures residing therein also died. From all points of the compass the arrows of the flame rained continuously! "
The Norse, the Romans and Greeks, like the Ancient Indians, spoke of the War in Heaven between factions of the Gods. In Scripture, we have a third of the host of angels fought, and prevailed not, and were cast from Heaven.
Archaeologists wonder at the presence of vitrified sand, normally found in nuclear detonation sites, where the intense atomic blast has turned to glass or Tektites. Suggesting ancient nuclear warfare and destruction.
Around the world are ancient ruins, some like Göbekli Tepe, go back to an estimated 10,000 years -- whose precision and difficulty in moving and aligning would be extremely difficult even with today's technology (see also Tiawinaku, Pumapunku, the ultra-precise Meso-American calendar, which doesn't have to use the kludge of leap year to fix itself every 4 years).
According to many ancient texts, there have been many destructions, although we can elicit that they were so destructive that each time, the survivors were reduced to the Stone Age and memory of the preceding advanced civilization reduced to myth or legend.
Like Plato suggested in his Solon dialog, Western civilization suffers from collective amnesia. As a reminder, in the West, our collective history was assembled in one of the wonders of the ancient world: the Library of Alexandria. And yet, it's contents was effectively destroyed by a series of fires: by the Romans, by the Muslim and ultimately, by the Church.
In short, we don't know what we don't know. And if there is a lesson to be learned by any of this, any civilization is at its greatest risk at its highest state of development, when its weapons can wipe out cities or entire regions, or as Nikola Tesla discussed, can 'split the Earth like an apple.'
Plato - Atlantis and forgotten History - Dialog: Timaeus & Critias In the first place you remember a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones; in the next place, you do not know that there formerly dwelt in your land the fairest and noblest race of men which ever lived, and that you and your whole city are descended from a small seed or remnant (23c) of them which survived. And this was unknown to you, because, for many generations, the survivors of that destruction died, leaving no written word. For there was a time, Solon, before the great deluge of all, when the city which now is Athens was first in war and in every way the best governed of all cities, is said to have performed the noblest deeds and to have had the fairest constitution of any of which tradition tells, under the face of heaven.
I hate to predict something so negative, but I do think war is probably the way it will happen.
Unless we can change the way we view our relationships and work together towards the common, greater good of everyone, despite cultural, language, geographic, socio-economic barriers.
Universal laws and common markets would be a start in the right direction to unify rather than to divide us.
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