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HOW WILL THE WORLD END??

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  • 22-04-2009 10:07pm
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    Jackeenboy
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    Will it be weather that kills us? A massive ice age? A massive worldwide drought for years and years? The sun dies and stops shining? Aliens?
    Its going to end some day, but how?


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    Jackeenboy
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    This is a serious thread lads:mad:


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    jhegarty
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    The only thing that will end the world is when the sun expands to encompass it.

    Or do you mean life on earth ?


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    Jackeenboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 212 ✭✭Jackeenboy


    jhegarty wrote: »
    The only thing that will end the world is when the sun expands to encompass it.

    Or do you mean life on earth ?
    No the world !! Like when the dinosaurs got exterminated.
    Eggs on toast sorta thing..


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    jhegarty
    Registered Users Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭jhegarty


    Jackeenboy wrote: »
    No the world !! Like when the dinosaurs got exterminated.
    Eggs on toast sorta thing..

    I am pretty sure the world didn't end then.

    Let me check.

    Yep , still here.


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    Jackeenboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 212 ✭✭Jackeenboy


    jhegarty wrote: »
    I am pretty sure the world didn't end then.

    Let me check.

    Yep , still here.
    Well arent you the smarty pants !
    I mean what would kill us(the human race)?? or and what would end the world completely?


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    Redsunset
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    A big dirty virus,no vaccine.only a handful immune.spread by a giant meteor.


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    Jackeenboy
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    redsunset wrote: »
    A big dirty virus,no vaccine.only a handful immune.spread by a giant meteor.
    28 days later like


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    Redsunset
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    could be or maybe a continuous belt of superstorms wrapping around the earth,crippling all in its path.1000 mile an hour winds.so much lightning all land is toast


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    GuanYin
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    Post sensibly or not at all


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    IM0
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    Jackeenboy wrote: »
    Will it be weather that kills us? A massive ice age? A massive worldwide drought for years and years? The sun dies and stops shining? Aliens?
    Its going to end some day, but how?

    It will end with all the stress thinking about how it will end :rolleyes:


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    jhegarty wrote: »
    The only thing that will end the world is when the sun expands to encompass it.

    Or do you mean life on earth ?
    well we could get a mass driver and eject nuclear waste at very high velocities

    or we could get big solar sail powered spacecraft to do gravity assist flyby's , lots of them , regular flybys and a couple of hundred million years should allow us to move the earths orbit.


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    Bog Butter
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    Jackeenboy wrote: »
    Will it be weather that kills us? A massive ice age? A massive worldwide drought for years and years? The sun dies and stops shining? Aliens?
    Its going to end some day, but how?
    We are in a interglacial period (Holocene) at the moment. The last ice age ended roughly 12,000 years a ago. It's not a question of will there will be another ice age, but rather when? Having said that, our species probably won't become extinct; a certain amount of the worlds population will survive the next ice age. Will we have a cataclysmic event before then though?

    http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/news/story0_1.html
    Evidence of Another Ice Age on the Way


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    other research suggests our CO2 has pushed an ice aga away for 1/4 million years


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    Bog Butter
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    Another quote from the above link:
    The ultimate significance of human-induced global warming may therefore depend more on how it affects water-vapor transport, than its influence on average global temperature or any effect on the underlying glacial cycle, Kukla said. It is conceivable that greenhouse warming could even hasten the transition to glacial conditions by exacerbating the polar/equatorial temperature difference and increasing the rate of water transport poleward.

    Based on the record revealed in ocean and lake sediments, the most likely scenario over the next few thousand years is for the volume of ice in the polar regions to slowly grow, gradually dropping sea level and increasing the polar/equatorial temperature differential. Except near the poles, oceans and continents will remain relatively warm, although the climate will become increasingly unstable. Ultimately, a surge of built-up polar ice into the mid-latitude oceans will plunge the continents into ice-age conditions.

    I'm no expert, I just done a google and found this. I don't think a belief in the above would be an argument against the effects of (human induced) climate change but rather that a belief that the natural glacial cycles will overide whatever damage we may do.


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    squonk
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    malman wrote: »
    Another quote from the above link:



    I'm no expert, I just done a google and found this. I don't think a belief in the above would be an argument against the effects of (human induced) climate change but rather that a belief that the natural glacial cycles will overide whatever damage we may do.

    Shhh! The environmentalists won't get relected and the environmental companies won't make any money by claiming the sky is falling down!


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    baldieman
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    other research suggests our CO2 has pushed an ice aga away for 1/4 million years
    Well wont they have on there face's :D


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    deereidy
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    Why not do it yourself instead of letting nature have all the fun? link-->

    http://www.everything2.net/node/1449506


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    Kippure
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    With all of us in it.....


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