Earths Collapse "Imminent"

[Ragsnstitches]

Starts reading the topic;

Scientists...

Stopped reading.

Tried searching the page for links other then ads, couldn't find any.

Seems like a bogus tabloid job to me.

Also:

At least these options are described by the scientists as a "very tall order" and not as impossible as the collapse of Earth.

Either thats a typo, or they just said that earths collapse is impossible.

 

[Wintermoot]

I skimmed it a bit but it mentioned something about oil drilling
so that means Cthulu is going to take over the world?
although I honestly doubt this is true there are bigger planets and those aren't collapsing.

 

[Zulnam]

Just once I'd like to hear an article saying scientists are PREVENTING a doomsday scenario instead of announcing one.

But i guess talking about how things are bad and pointing fingers is easier than creating a machine that turns garbage into oxygen or something.
Those damn scientists! *points finger*

 

[Sonicron]

That's the beauty of the internet - you don't have to believe me in any way, and I don't have to give a damn about whether you believe me or not! After all, your lack of faith in my opinion doesn't change the fact I know it to be true.

P.S. You could also specialise in human geography for all I kno

I do indeed. Doesn't prevent me from paying attention in lectures and seminars on physical geography, however.

Your confident assertion that you know something to be true is not becoming of an academic, particularly of a social scientist. I am not getting at the social sciences as I myself am a post-graduate sociology student, and I have a lot of respect for human geography. What I am saying though, is that you hearing things in a few lectures is not quite the same claim to truth as someone on the forefront of research. I am not saying that what they say is true either, just that their claim to truth is better.

And yet I insist on calling bollocks. I may not be a field researcher, but I do keep up with current research, and since all of our lectures are kept up-to-date as well I reserve the right to call bullcrap on an article that provides no sources whatsoever and blows the admittedly very real problems of our fair planet ridiculously out of proportion. And no, their claim to truth is in no way, shape or form better than mine - everyone could call themselves a researcher, and I don't see a lick of proof for high-quality fieldwork either.

 

[Meatspinner]

So... is this some sort of a rapture thing for non-religious people. Cuz it sure is vague enough

 

[Kargathia]

...shit happens.

Can't worry about it if we're dead anyhow.

 

[Archemetis]

Were going to have another ice age.
The world is going to be hit by an asteroid.
Demons are taking over the earth.
Zombies are taking over the earth.
(insert long dead illness here) is going to become widespread and kill everyone on earth.
Were going to nuke each other to death.

Did I miss any?

The way I look at it, if I am to die in some world ending disaster, at least I'm not dying alone.

RAPTURE! D:

But honestly, I don't see the world (Or just humanity) ending through natural disaster, It's going to be human error.

So my guess is much sooner than 100 years.

 

[gwilym101]

"used scientific theories, toy ecosystem modeling and paleontological evidence as a crystal ball", pretty sure this is a troll or the work of morons.

The next ice age isn't due for another 6,000 years at best guess, and it isn't going to wipe out the most common verebrate species on the planet.

complete bull.

 

[Zydrate]

I take 2005's Doctor Who stance.

This is not verbatim, been months since I've seen that episode.

"You humans are so scared of your end. Did you ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe you survive?"

 

[Dangit2019]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJjQMwEjC1I

Yeaaaaah no. Good try, though.

 

[Ralen-Sharr]

Doomsday theories are as old as humanity itself. And guess what, we're still here.
Point is : we're not capable of predicting exact weather for next day with 100% accuracy. We can't be sure about events taking place 50-100 years ago. But we're soooooooo sure that some apocalypse is imminent because, hey, we're living in the end times of the tenths of thousands years old cycle. Hooray for science.

Yeah, right.

maybe some holographic space magic child told them about an unstoppable cycle, that's feesable right?

How many doom theories have been blown out of the water by now?

 

[davros3000]

if you want the details its published in the journal nature.

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/sustainability/2012/06/06/new-tipping-point-study-warns-total-irreversible-collapse-global-ecosystem

is a 'legitimate source' as is the university;

http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media-releases/2012/study-predicts-imminent-irreversible-planetary-collapse.html

 

[Vegosiux]

Earth and Jupiter meet in outer space. Earth doesn't look that well. "What's wrong, Earth?" Jupiter asks. "Ugh, I think I caught humans..." Earth is all hacky-coughy. "Oh don't worry, that doesn't last long and goes away on its own."

On a more serious note, while I may have a vested interest in humanity not dying out for another, say, 80 years or so, I'm not worried about the planet at all. I mean it's taken more large impacts than I had breakfasts.

In the end, there's one thing humanity has to learn...It's not always about us.

One more thing, actually. There's no "magic countdown" for when things are on a course that can't be changed, and changes are gradual and slow. It's not like The Day after Tomorrow.

 

[Dr. Mongo]

Scientists predicted something.
Well, I am a scientist, too and I predict that a lot of bullshit will be predicted by scientists in the near future. This will cause the ecosystem to shift into a load of crap.
Seriously, we cannot predict the weather for more than three days, but now we can predict the changes of our complete ecosystem? Without even knowing it completely?
Yeah, right.

Captcha: ride the subway
That could help

 

[Eldrig]

An ice age you say?

BRING IT ON, I hate Summer and Spring.


As well, the Earth has underwent many transformations in it's long and varied past.
We will collapse, the earth will be fine.

I'm looking forward to this now. Global warming will cancel this out, and we have more time to develop green technology! Assuming this actually happens (a VERY big assumption).

 

[Technocrat]

Good grief, so many pessimists around here. Humanity has survived ice ages before, and now we have technology on our side!

 

[gigastar]

Incidently, one of the biggest things i plan to do when i take over the world is implement population control. The problem is not how humans live, its the sheer number of them that live in that manner.

 

[lRookiel]

I'll be dead in 50 years or less, don't care.

 

[HouseOfSyn]

I live 100 meters from a nice cliff top on the Sussex coast. When the end of the world comes, I'm getting a fold-out chair, a few bottles of beer and taking a front row seat. It's almost a shame it wont be in my lifetime. ¯\_(&#12484_/¯