Earths Collapse "Imminent"

[Birdfalcon]

Eh, the Earth is going to be fine. It survived a whole lot more then anything we can throw at it. The Permian mass extinction comes to mind, almost all life was obliterated, and the survivers went and became fucking dinosaurs, so you just know the earth is going to be fine.

It's just us that's fucked, no biggy.

Are you the rencarnation of the legendary george carlin sir or madam ?

Catchapa: EVERYONE FREAK OUT ITS 2012 !!!

 

[xplosive59]

Winter is coming...

 

[Donnie Restad]

I'd say this is complete bullshit.
There's absolutely no scholarly research in the entire article. The only external link is to some obscure college in Canada that perhaps 1,000 people in the world have even heard of.

It mentions studies, but never actually cites them. It's all just vague misdirections, with less factual evidence than the "2012 apocalypse."

Erm... are they implying what I think they are? Has science just condoned mass killings?!

*sigh* Maybe someday, but not today.

 

[Worgen]

Guys, I got it, I know what will happen, the earth will experience a polarity shift during a pole shift and it will cause the planet to backshift

Spoiler

and suddenly everyone will turn into talking equines with strange coloration that live in an idealized world.

 

[Dangit2019]

The Latinos are mutating!
And they are HEATING UP THE PLANET!

Dude, you had to remind me of that movie...

Just for context for everyone else:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4LxBcBad8Y

 

[CrazyGirl17]

If it's in a hundred years, why worry about it?

 

[keiji_Maeda]

It's a good point.

Thanks. It's hard to express one's opinion in the foreign, partially unknown language with nothing except Google Translator to help.

And i didn't mean to imply tat merely getting the hell of terra is gooing to resolve humanitys woes. But i'm unsure as to whether or not humanity as a whole will survive long enough to learn from it's problems. But on the other hand, we have to, one way or the other. But i'm still of the old school approach that space exploration'll humble humanity, but i'm pretty damn sure group A of people will fight group B. Maybe humanity'll enconuter another race, but i think it's naive to believe that all the answers are in space. A giant green skinned mentor isn't a resolution to everybodys problems.

Unfortunately, nothing short of divine intervention will be capable to finally resolve all our problems if we'll have to add astronomical distances to the Human equation. Actually... This reminds me of two stories, Farmer's "Jesus on Mars" and Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land". If you'll have some spare time, i encourage you to read those novels. At worst, they present interesting visions, at best - well, you be the judge. :]

As for now, i hope for unexpected technological breakthrough of sorts. Something that will make all this stupid race to destruction obsolete. Maybe some kind of invention that'll connect all Mankind's minds into one, single consciousness or something like this. Seriously, i don't see any other way for us. With each new generation we have to learn everything from the beginning and we still make the same mistakes.
...but now we have the nukes.

i'm going to be cynical and quote pratchett and say

"As has been noted, on the Disc black and white live in perfect harmony, and all gang up against the green"

have read stranger in a strange land, it's a good book

 

[Black Arrow Officer]

Don't give this story any stock. It's just more media propagation of the "bunker" mentality they're trying to force people into.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

Is the earth, in the next 100 years, going to go into a cataclysmic state shift, similar in potency to the one that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? What do you guys think?

I'm all for the end of the world, as it would finally get those climate change cult followers to shut the melonfarm up.

 

[templar1138a]

This probably is sensationalism. As many have already pointed out, this article is very vague.

However, I am not skeptical to the idea that the environment is not going to be able to sustain the human population at its current numbers. I don't believe humans are capable of destroying nature. After all, nature adapts and changes. We're just destroying ourselves.

But I admit, I don't like the notion of being killed by a dramatic change in the environment, especially considering that I'll probably be an old man by then, but at least I'll take comfort in knowing that natural selection will finally stop being staved off. The forces of nature can be more powerful than any government policy.

I just hope that I'm fully dead before the grolar bears eat me.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Well at least we won't have to worry about time stopping being the cause of our ruined day. =P

YAWN!! Wake me when the world is actually ending.

 

[Drop_D-Bombshell]

honestly i'm fairly positive on the idea that we'll have colonised other planets by then. Plus all of us will be probably dead before that happens, so i'm not concerned.

 

[Terminate421]

This is why I love the environment. It scares me to try to save the world and then makes me realize I cannot do shit thanks to Old White People sitting on my government.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Can I have information? About this...cataclysm? Yeah?
...
You won't give me any information?
...
I don't believe you.

more or less this.

bring proofs or stfu, and stop trying to bring every one down

 

[Terminate421]

Yet another doom.

Why is it people can never predict a time of rainbows, dogs and cats hugging and pink rabbits.

It's always a doom.

You forgot Penguins, Jolly Ranchers, and.......POKEMON.

But in all seriousness, We kinda should try and clean up our environment. Everytime we kill a species, I feel like shit.

 

[Nerexor]

All this does is let me tentatively put "earth collapse" on my list of "ways the whole species could potentially die within my lifetime."

Favorites include:
Nuclear annihilation

SuperPlague (viruses are adapting to our abilities to cure them, plague would easily wipe out any urban center, and I live right in the heart of a major one.)

The Yellowstone Explosion (This is why we need force field tech... so we can at least contain and stop the initial blast of ash. Amirite?)

Socioeconomic collapse: Shit falls apart, wars begin everywhere, the corporates either pull the strings or shit themselves when their precious money stops being worth anything, organized society disintegrates and lots and lots of people die.

Divine Apocalypse: Book of revelations style. Includes plagues, floods, earthquakes, volacanoes, and armies of angels who are pissed at being dismissed by atheists.

Alien Apocalypse: Aliens decide we need to die. It happens, because our computer tech is incompatible and thus we can't upload the computer virus to disable the aliens shields.

And now: Planetary tectonic collapse event triggering an ice age.

 

[Plazmatic]

It'd help if they actually told us what this collapse is supposed to be

They go as deep as some sort of cataclysmic shift in the Earth's biosphere that could cause another ice age. Or something. Yeah.

Nice apocalypse TOOOTALLY not like Humans haven't survived an ice age that lasted 100,000 years ago, well be totally FU--

oh wait, we did, in fact we've been around for upwards of 150,000 years... OVER-DRAMATIZATION, IGNORE AND MOVE ON.

Also

The Yellowstone Explosion (This is why we need force field tech... so we can at least contain and stop the initial blast of ash. Amirite?)

Actually the I believe National Geographic did a thing on the YellowStone Super Volcano. We actually wont all die, the earth really isn't going to end because of it, nor is the human race, really the only people to die are those in the immediate vicinity of the park, and it will only really seriously affect the United States, which will simply have to have either sars or gas masks on to avoid the inhalation of soot. And it might get slightly colder with sulfur being in the atmosphere.

 

[Nerexor]

The Yellowstone Explosion (This is why we need force field tech... so we can at least contain and stop the initial blast of ash. Amirite?)

Actually the I believe National Geographic did a thing on the YellowStone Super Volcano. We actually wont all die, the earth really isn't going to end because of it, nor is the human race, really the only people to die are those in the immediate vicinity of the park, and it will only really seriously affect the United States, which will simply have to have either sars or gas masks on to avoid the inhalation of soot. And it might get slightly colder with sulfur being in the atmosphere.

Oh, that's a relief then. Mass death by suffocation would have been a really crappy way to go. I still stand by my force field solution though. Because it would be awesome.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Let's go to Mars, and find a Mass Relay.