Fear Armageddon!

Of course you will need to believe in God and the bible to even think that there will be a armageddon. How do you think it will come and are you scared.
Do you sometimes think the world is so bad that it has to come to and end. Won't our natural resources run out eventually? The population is growing so fast it will make your head spin.


World 6,511,050,496
04:54 GMT (EST+5) Apr 21, 2006

Look at how much the population goes up monthly and that is billions not millions

07/01/05 6,451,058,790
08/01/05 6,457,380,056
09/01/05 6,463,701,322
10/01/05 6,469,818,677
11/01/05 6,476,139,943
12/01/05 6,482,257,297
01/01/06 6,488,578,564
02/01/06 6,494,899,830
03/01/06 6,500,609,361
04/01/06 6,506,930,627
05/01/06 6,513,047,982
06/01/06 6,519,369,248
07/01/06 6,525,486,603

What's really scary is that so many people actually think the apocalypse is coming, and give up all hope in their own species. There is no rational reason to believe humanity is going to end, except maybe through some collision with a near-earth asteroid or something. But we're making progress in tracking such objects and we're coming up with good deflection strategies to save ourselves.

In the long run, the solution to overpopulation is expansion...into outer space. Think about it. It's our only choice, and I think it will make for a glorious future for our species. Give up the fear-based superstitious stuff. There's no need to worry; we're incredibly smart beings, and we've thought ourselves out of lots of conundrums in the past.

humans have always lived with the threat of armageddon just around the corner (whether perceived or not)
....catastrophic climate change,
....a supervolcano eruption....
.....asteroid, meteroite stike.....
.....global pandemic.....
.....massive solar flares....
.....all these threats are real and will happen someday...we've just been lucky so far.....
I guess you could add nuclear fallout and a pollution of natural resources as new ones we've created in the last 100 years or so - as well as increasing the odds of a global pandemic and for catastrophic climate change....
but the fact remains the whole of mankind could be wiped out tomorrow - one errant rock from space and booom! thankyou and good night. :) As a species we really havent been around that long, and extinctions happen all the time, so there's no reason to expect that it couldnt happen....
all we can do is keep inventing, keep creating new technologies, keep doing scientific research...and keep trying to control our natural environment as best we can....oh yeah, and keep our fingers crossed :thumbsup:

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....catastrophic climate change,

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Hard to say if climate change could actually be drastic enough to whipe us out entirely, but maybe.

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....a supervolcano eruption....

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I've never known of a volcano that could destroy every human on every corner of earth. Is there something I'm not aware of?

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.....asteroid, meteroite stike.....

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yes indeed, I hope we can invent some bitchin space-weapons and the appropriate funds soon.

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.....global pandemic.....

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nope, even the black plague had many people immune to it's effects. I'm pretty sure no matter how bad a virus you have, there will always be a few people who are immune, or at least very secluded (way up north perhapse).

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.....massive solar flares....

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I have no idea about this one, how bad do they get?

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I guess you could add nuclear fallout

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Lets really hope that one never happens. overall though, I think if we have nuclear war it won't be the end of the world, just devestatingly damaging to the environment and everybody's health. In fact we'd better have a cure for cancer by then.

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and a pollution of natural resources as new ones we've created in the last 100 years or so

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I'd break that up into pullition and exhaustion of natural resources, though to 2 do overlap to a degree. I personally think these 2 are our biggest threat.

well.....id agree that global pandemic is the least likely to wipe out the whole species - not impossible....but there's probably gonna be some survivors somewhere so i'll give u that one.....

climate change could easily wipe out the human population - for large proportions of the earths life we as humans would have been unable to live on it....its only the coincidence of a stable temperature and the right proportion of gases in the atmosphere that keeps us going at the moment....

supervolcanoes are in interesting one - only relatively recently understood - but they would (it is hypothosised) cause catostrophic damage - possibly triggering a massive climate change as a double whammy.....
There's one right under yellowstone park in the US - scientists reckon they errupt every 600,000 years or so....and it was about 600,000 since the last one :) they've got a blast zone of several hundred miles, and the capacity to put enough soot and ash into the sky to stop the suns rays getting through for months on end....which would have a pretty bad knock on effect throughout the earth's ecosystems....

solar flares are another possibility but I dont think they're too well understood either - the sun always has solar activity going on - and the radiation does reach the earth, although most of it is stopped by the ozone....but the sun goes through cycles of greatly increased solar activity - which could send enough solar radiation through to the earth to fry us all....

of course sooner or later (well....probably trillions or years later) the suns going to burn up, expand and swallow the whole solar system.....but i dont reckon we're still going to be around to worry about that one......

best not to think about it really :) :) :)

That's some interesting stuff andyandy :) . Though actually I believe our sun has about 4 billion years before it engulfs earth, no sun could last trillions.

i get confused after about 9 zeros.......:)

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Originally Posted by Oneironaut

In the long run, the solution to overpopulation is expansion...into outer space. Think about it. It's our only choice,

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I love this. A one word solution to all the human problems: Space.

What about humanism, or education?

Don't you have any faith in the possibility of turning it all around?

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Originally Posted by Polymirize

Don't you have any faith in the possibility of turning it all around?

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No way...I personally think we are to far gone

How high does that ash and soot go? One solution maybe to create a medium for the rays to get past it. At least a small amount of the population could survive. They'd still be cave dwellers for some time though =) That would be so cool. I could like thunk girls over the head, throw em over my shoulder, and take em to my cave.