Poll: THE APPOCOLYPSE: How Will It Happen?

[MetaKnight19]

Sun exploding. Not gonna happen for a few billion years, but it will happen. Eventually.

exactly what i was thinking

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Where's the "I'm still working on the plan." option?

 

[AkJay]

It will happen in MISSPELLED CAPITAL LETTERS!!!

 

[Ekonk]

The answer is: in the process of becoming a red superstar, the sun will evaporate all seas and all people on earth. THEN it will explode.

 

[bobo ma shopo]

chuck norris getting angry sort of like horishma but bigger

 

[fix-the-spade]

Silence
Silence
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<spoiler=Earth shattering> KABOOOM!
Silence

The rest is merely details.

We'll be killed by a disease caused by a very dirty telephone.

Wrong planet dude, wrong planet entirely.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I would think nuclear war, but I would prefer zombies...

 

[SomeBritishDude]

We'll be killed by a disease caused by a very dirty telephone.

Wrong planet dude, wrong planet entirely.

It'd certainly be ironic, killed in the same way our ancestors where.

 

[Mad Maniac with axe-firing chainsaw]

I put creatures from the centre of the Earth but my money is on the sun exploding. Failing that the universe expanding to the point of ripping apart all matter should do it. And before the sun there's always the supervolcanoes which might just do enough damage to inflict a coup de grace.

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

There is a metior that should pass the Earth (i think) in 2012, this meteor has passed before (elegedly) and is making it's loop around again, the thing is, this metior will be the clossest the world has ever seen so it is possible that it could get pulled into the Earth and destroy it.

this metior is (elegedly) 5 miles by 10 miles which (elegedly) could destroy the planet.

I chose a metior for this reason but as you can see i am sceptical.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

There is a metior that should pass the Earth (i think) in 2012, this meteor has passed before (elegedly) and is making it's loop around again, the thing is, this metior will be the clossest the world has ever seen so it is possible that it could get pulled into the Earth and destroy it.

this metior is (elegedly) 5 miles by 10 miles which (elegedly) could destroy the planet.

I chose a metior for this reason but as you can see i am sceptical.

There is no such meteor. But an asteroid will pass very close to the Earth in 2020-something.
I'd say volcanic eruption. There is a super-vulcano under Yellowstone, and if it erupts, it will certainly cause quite a stir.

 

[Aardvark Soup]

Asteroid Hit - Pretty likely and certainly my second choice.
Alien Invasion - I doubt it. Why would intelligent extraterrestials bother to travel hundreds of years (unless they invented some way to bend time and/or space and go faster than light) just to invade or unimportant little planet. And if they do the chance that humanity still exists by then is very small.
Creatures from the Earths centre - This one likelyness is right on par with the Strawberry Monster invasion in my opinion...
The Sun Explodes - I doubt humanity will still exist in 5 billion years, and if they do they've probably already found a way to get the hell away from this solar system before this happens.
Nuclear Warfare - Even though this might destroy most of civilization humanity still has a reasonable chance to survive this.
Disease/Mutation Virus - I picked this one. If one single virus just happens to mutate in a certain manner we're all done for.
Evolution Occurs in another species and we're wipped out - Considering how slow evolution works, this is the least of our worries. Even the Strawberry Monster scenario seems more likely than this.
Super-Volcanic Erruption/Change in Atmosphere - Plausible, but we still have a chance to survive this if we're lucky.

 

[z0mbyjr]

Well... Earth will run out of its oil reserves, and tensions will build between the countries, forming super-alliances to try to get the last bits of oil... Eventually, everyone nukes each other.

 

[Random Argument Man]

I think good old George has the answer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

 

[TheLastCylon]

GAMMA RAY BURST

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

http://www.k3pgp.org/seti/aliens.jpg

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

I vote asteroid strike. Supervolcanic eruptions are bad, but I bet we'de have advance warning. Climate change is terrible, but we still have time to move underground. Nuclear war? If it didn't happen in the Sixties or Eighties or don't think it's gonna happen.

An asteroid strike, on the other hand, can come out of nowhere with the few people who see it coming keeping it to themselves while they work on a redoubt somewhere. If it's a small one, then it's bad times for ground zero, while folk on the other side of the globe adjust. If it's a planet cracker, I mean a body big enough to just completely re-liquify the whole Earth, then nothing is safe, we'll see it coming and just start to party down till doomsday.

Or we could assemble a team of volunteers to go and plant a nuke in the centre of the asteroid, splitting it in half and making the two parts left avoid the earth. Preferably including Bruce Willis because he was in a movie that was kinda like this, Paris Hilton, Hannah Montana and The Jonas Brothers so they can be used as a sacrifice if something goes wrong.