I don't know how reliable this source is, but it's scary nonetheless.
From what I've learned in Science classes, something like this has potential to destroy the planet, or could cause another ice age. The last time something like this happened, the temperature of the Atlantic Ocean dropped 6 degrees.
Anyone else worried about this?
If not that, how about this;
The Yellowstone Caldera, a super volcano, erupts about once every 60 000 years with an eruption that "is 1,000 times larger than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helen's."
The last time it erupted you ask? Good question. 66000 years ago.
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That is some scary shit. That volcano erupts like CLOCKWORK every 600,000 years for the past 12,000,000 or so years, and now it's 60,000 years late. Not good.
Scientists have actually been able to predict the ten ways that the world is most likely to end, and can end within a matter of days. No joke, here are ten REAL ways we could all meet our end:
1) Total Existance Failure- If you understand quantum physics well enough, you'll know that at some point if the odds stack up right, your computer monitor could just drop through your computer desk unaided. What if this happened to the soil beneath us? It happens every single day, but on a VERY small scale. If it were ever to happen on a large scale, however... doomsday.
Don't panic yet, scientists say that the odds of this happening are 1 googleplex:1. (A google is a one followed by 100 zeros. A googleplex is a one followed by a google zeros.)
2) Black Hole- There is currently a black hole moving right toward Earth, eating planets like candy. If we don't find a way to destroy it or send it off course in the next 4,000 years, we're all dead.
3) Destroyed By Antimatter- Antimater is the exact opposite of matter; particles made up of a negative antiproton, a neutral neuron and positive antielectrons. When these particles come into contact with matter, they instantly explode with 700,000 times the force of a nuclear reaction. A neighboring galaxy is made up of antimatter exclusively, and if any of it ever escapes and finds its way into our galaxy, we're fucked.
4) The Yellowstone Explosion- Detailed above.
5) Rise Of The Machines- The government for the first time ever has created a cybernetic organism that has reached TPOS, or The Point Of Singularity. This means that it could theoretically design and build a machine more advanced than itself ALL BY ITSELF. If this machine ever decides that humans are too flawed to go on existing and is somehow given the means to wipe us out (like is trusted with our nuclear launch codes) we could all fall to a new race of mechanized beings.
6) Nuclear War- Ever since the end of the Cold War, the US and Russia still have 180 nuclear ICBMs on hairtrigger alert. An accident of any kind could kill thousands. Twenty or more nukes launched at any one time, anywhere in the world, will kick up enough dust to block out the sun, killing crops and starving all of humankind to death.
7) Giant Meteorite- You've all heard that the world will end in 2029 because of that huge asteroid, right? No big deal, we know how to send it off course, the only problem is there are 7 million more floating in space just beyond Mars. Some, the dangerous ones, are too small for radar to pick up but big enough to kick up enough dust upon impact to block out the sun... you know the drill.
8) EMP- The sun releases bursts of ElectroMagnetic Pulse energy all the time. So far, we've been lucky, but if any of this hits a thin spot in the Ozone, we're fucked. All electronics on Earth will fail, going offline for about five hours... but it's not five hours without DrunkenStepfather that will kill you. It's the chaos ensuing after global banking failure. Currency will be worthless, and humanity will be back in the stone age instantly.
9) The Death Of The Bees- Bees are already mysteriously disappearing by the millions. If this happens, no plants will be pollenated, our food's food supply will die, in turn killing our food, in turn killing us. Albert Einstein predicted that this will be how the world would end.
10) Genetically-Engineered SuperVirus- Pharmaceutical companies, in order to make a vaccine, must first genetically enhance the bacteria that they're trying to cure. Scientists predict that this will also work on viruses (viruses, from AIDS to the common cold, have previously been uncurable). If they try to cure a disease like SARS, AIDS or the Avian Flu and fail, they could wipe us all out. All of these deadly viruses reproduce quickly and asexually. One infected human meens doomsday for the other 6,500,000,000.
Depressing, isn't it?
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Last edited by Kyle E. Coyote : 06-18-2008 at 01:43 PM.
I'll worry about that shit about as much as I worry about man-made global warming....
Which is to say, I won't.
If Yellowstone blows up and kills us all, so what? Not like there is anything we can do about it. No sense spending my life worrying about shit I can't control.