The end of the World

 

Ok.. here we go again with a filthy rich american lunatic, Harold Camping a self entitled religious pastor, saying that the world would end today, 21 May 2011. This is just another profitable hoax like many others, taking advantage of milions of stupid people. I mean, come on, there's gotta be something better than this story... and there is :)


I present you a series of scenarios:


The return of NIBIRU, is a supposed disastrous encounter between the Earth and a large planetary object (either a collision or a near-miss) which certain groups believe will take place in the early 21st century. Believers in this doomsday event usually refer to this object as Planet X or Nibiru. The idea that a planet-sized object could possibly collide with or pass by Earth in the near future is not supported by any scientific evidence and has been rejected as pseudoscience by astronomers and planetary scientists.


NEMESIS (hypothetical star), The Sun may have an as yet undetected companion star, a Death Star, in a highly elliptical orbit that periodically disturbs comets in the Oort cloud, causing a large increase in the number of comets visiting the inner solar system with a consequential increase in impact events on Earth


GLIESE 710, a variable orange dwarf star, which is currently about 63.0 light years from Earth, but its proper motion, distance, and radial velocity indicate that it will approach within a very small distance - perhaps under one light year - from the Sun within 1.4 million years. The mass and close approach distance will cause the greatest gravitational perturbation of our solar system.


Pole shift (1) and/or Geomagnetic reversal (2) 

(1) The cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis states that there have been geologically rapid shifts in the relative positions of the modern-day geographic locations of the poles and the axis of rotation of the Earth, creating calamities such as floods and tectonic events.

(2) A geomagnetic reversal is a change in the Earth's magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south are interchanged. The Earth's field has alternated between periods of normal polarity, in which the direction of the field was the same as the present direction, and reverse polarity, in which the field was in the opposite direction. These periods are calledchrons. The time spans of chrons are randomly distributed with most being between 0.1 and 1 million years.

GRB (Gamma Ray Bursts). It's just like the lottery and it could happen anytime... tomorrow or in a million years. Very hard to predict and very dangerous.. in just a flash the world as we know it, could come to an end.


Sun Burnout (The Death of the Sun). The Sun is about 4.5 billion years old. it has used up about half of its nuclear fuel (hydrogen). In about 5 billion years from now, the sun will begin to die. The increase in solar temperatures is such that in about another billion years the surface of the Earth will likely become too hot for liquid water to exist, ending all terrestrial life.


Andromeda-Milky Way Collision, is a predicted galaxy collision that could possibly take place in approximately 3 to 5 billion years' time between the two largest galaxies in the Local Group – the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way, which contains Earth.


Asteroids and Meteors, The collision between Earth and an asteroid a few kilometers in diameter may release as much energy as several million nuclear weapons detonating simultaneously causing mass extinctions or even the end of life on Earth. 


Stay tuned for Apophis in 2029 or 2036 :)


The Sun is a bit tricky, as it has periods of Geomagnetic Storms and Coronal mass ejections. Such cases might wreak havoc on Earth with huge consequences.


All these scenarios alongside with the Big Crunch ending with a black hole singularity or the Big Freeze/Expansion where the Universe will continue forever becoming too cold to sustain life. 

If you think this doesn't convince you, try some technological evolution featurign nanobots, economic based wars, conflicts, or the non-stopping pollution and green house effect.
Spreading diseases, Mass Suicide, Impotence, Oil Peak, Natural Disasters like Volcanoes, Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Climate Shift, etc.


Yeah, beat that ! and I'm sure I still forgot something :))

Untill then... Have a party, buy a Porsche, forget work, avoid taxes, don't get married, forget diet, retire now.. But hurry ! Time is running out ! Cheers