Do you think the world will end?

An asteroid will NOT EVER hit us. Asteroids are stuck in orbit around the Sun. Unless there suddenly became no gravity, an Asteroid would never hit us.

A meteor has a chance; An asteroid? No.

 

Heh...whoops. I meant meteor. xD I'm trying to do too many things at once again...:o

 

The world ending on December 21, 2012......I seriously doubt that. There's only two ways I see the world ending.

Ending # 1: Well, I'm sure it's a common thing, but I say the sun going super nova. That'll pretty much eat us alive! XD

Ending # 2: Umm.....some giant meteor. I mean, we were about an hour away from being obliterated by a giant one during the 70's I think. I can't remember the exact details, but I saw it on a movie in science class about space.

Outside of those, the only world ending, would be your personal world! ^^

 

Nah, the sun exploding is the only possibility.

 

Well for one; people in our history of man have been making predictions and grave dates FOR the end of the world. Remember when the world was supposed to end on Dec. 31st, 2000? Did that happen? No.

It was also expected to end in 1992, which also never happened.

So I would absolutely fail to believe that this is going to happen. Space can't be predicted this way. The only real explanation is the super nova of our sun. Which isn't at least for another 3 billion years.

Rule of life: Never make a judgement about something you don't know. It's profound and impossible to determine your statement, anyway.

 

The world is a confusing place. It could happen, but it is quite unlikely scientifically. There's hardly a force that could randomly "destroy" our planet.

 

Wrong, there's a force called "God", "Satan", and "Aliens with Advanced Technology" you arn't taking into account.

 

The name called "World Ending" is too dramatic for the kids =\ Lets just call it the day when we all die =D Oh and Darky I meant that stuff like the Anti Jesus coming and make an army that stuff is a lie. But the stuff about the sun well thats another story =\

 

I beleive in things that can be explained.

So unless the sun explodes, 2012 will have a Christmas. >_>;

 

So that means we all win! Hooray for death! Oh and if aliens were going to hurt us they would've done it by now =\ Maybe they are helping men kind =\ But what if the monster will come?!?!?!

 

Monsters have one weakness: Night lights.

And yeah, aliens would have by now if they wanted to. D:

 

The world will most likely end not beause of a super nova sun, but for other reasons.

Global Warming, for example. We're killing our atmosphere a lot quicker than the sun can burn out, so if anything--under this presumption, it is the sun that will kill us once we've completely destroyed our ozone layer. Then we'll all fry, of course. Although it's safer to say we sooner risk running out of natural resources first, and may die from life-support deprivation instead.

There's also a theory if you've read up on your thermodynamics, the laws that state that an increase of entropy increases 'chaos'. Thermodynamics underlies that all 'useful work' energy (Gibb's energy) is not lost after use and that it is instead transformed into other forms of energy--energy we *cannot* use.

Here's a nice analogy. It's from a Grade 12 Biology textbook that I'm going to try to summarize. Imagine a fish tank that is divided in half by a wooden plank, and that there are small fans at the bottom standing upright. Fill one side of the tank with water. Gibb's energy (useful work) is the potential energy stored in the plank that is preventing the water from entering the empty side of the tank. When you remove the plank, water rushes to the empty side and spins the fans (due to the pressure of the water, etc). This is a model of how useful work energy powers and governs all the things we do: the energy we consume to move our arms, to contract our muscles, to breathe our oxygen, to drive our cars; everything useful in our daily lives consumes this Gibb's energy.

Now consider the tank as it is now. The water is now evenly distributed among the tank, and nothing happens. The fans stop spinning, the water level is equal; now that the energy (represented by the water) is now evenly distributed throughout the tank, we *cannot* be use this energy to do anything else. And no, you can't empty the tank and try it again because that requires useful energy, and we're considering the tank our 'world'.

That is in essence, the model of how the end of the world will be according to thermodynamic theory. Everyday as we consume this useful energy, we are slowly distributing this energy evenly among the vast universe around us. Eventually, the universe will be the same as the tank: a universe filled with stagnant, unuseable energy. The stars will stop shining, life will cease to exist. They coin is as a final 'heat death' of the universe.

Now of course, this won't happen until who knows how long, so don't bother getting all worked up on this theory thinking "Omg, when I exercise I'm consuming the universe's useful work energy!". Use it all you like, it's gonna be around for a while.

 

I don't think the world will end that soon. The only times that I believe when the world will end is in another 10 billion years when the sun gets out of being a main sequence star or when the bible says that Jesus is suppose to come down and take the good to heaven and the bad to you know where. I doubt it will end in the year 2012. Oh, and global warming

 

i say yes
we all have to die and the worlds no different
not trying to be all emo or anything but the next minute is not guaranteed
and the world can end in the next minute,or the next,or the next
while i pray that it wont end on that date(because thers so much i want to do)
its gonna end someday.

 

Okay, the sun can't supernova. It doesn't have the mass required to do that. It would simply nova, and that wouldn't evaporate Earth. Mercury would most likely go, and the planets would probably start to drift away into the universe.
As for global warming, I don't believe it. It's been insanely cold where I live, and it still is. I don't remember a winter this cold since...a while ago.
I'm still for the meteor. Plus, I think it'd be kinda cool for the Earth to be destroyed by a giant impact.

 

The sun is a star, stars go supernova, a star the size of a piece of sand can go supernova. The world can be consumed by that. But not by like five billion AD or something.

In any case, I think we'll go by nuclear weapons, starvation or a meteor.

 

Colder winters is also a product of global warming. People often mistake what Global Warming *actually* is. To put it very simply, global warming is part of what's causing summers and winters to become far more extreme.

 

Lawl, sadly I voted beofre reading the date. Yes the world will end eventually, everything has it's end just like everything has it's beginning just the wya the universe works. But no, it will not end in 2012, this just form of the Y2K BS...

 

I HIGHLY doubt the world will end. It should take billions of years to make all life on Earth suddenly die...it's kinda like 6/6/06. The chances of life suddenly collapsing is slim da nil.

 

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