• Question: how do you think the world will end???????? the rumors are bye floods do you think this is true ?

    Asked by mnicholls96 to Clare, Dave, Glo, Ozge, Sean on 16 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Gloeta Massie

      Gloeta Massie answered on 15 Jun 2011:


      Oooh. I don’t know – but I hope that it’s a long, long, long, long, long time away still!

    • Photo: Dave Sproson

      Dave Sproson answered on 15 Jun 2011:


      I don’t think floods are likely to end the world – without a large scale change on the Earth’s surface there would always be dry land somewhere!

      There are a few ways the planet could possibly become uninhabitable for humans — if I were a betting man I’d put my money on an asteroid strike, like the one that is though to have contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs! But the best we can really do is guess, and as Glo says, it’s probably such a long (long, long, long) way off in the future that it really isn’t worth worrying about 🙂

    • Photo: Ozge Ozkaya

      Ozge Ozkaya answered on 15 Jun 2011:


      It is estimated that in about 5 million years the sun will become a red giant and engulf all the planets in it’s orbit up to the earth. That’s how the world will end.

      Life on earth might end before though due to climate change or human impact. I even think that humans might be extinct due to their own negative impact on the planet and other life forms might once more thrive in the abscence of humans.

      In the meantime some humans might have managed to sustain themselves on other planets. once new life forms evolve and make planet earth back into the paradise it once was only rich humans could be coming back to earth “on holiday”! This bit is all science fiction of course.

      From a more phylosofical point of view, the world will end for us the day we die!

    • Photo: Clare Woulds

      Clare Woulds answered on 15 Jun 2011:


      Even if life on Earth is extinguished by an asteroid, or climate change, or something (it would take something really major to out and end to all the micro-organisms deep in the rocks or at the bottom of the ocean), then the planet itself might continue to exist. At some point in the future our star, the sun, will start to die (it will run out of fuel). At that point it will expand out past the orbit of the Earth, and I guess that will be fairly bad for our planet. I think that’s still several billion years away though.

    • Photo: Sean Clement

      Sean Clement answered on 16 Jun 2011:


      Hmm, I’m in no rush for the world to end! Every star burns out in the end, simply through running out of fuel! There’s been life on the planet for over 3.5 billion years and there will probably be some form of life on it for as long as conditions are right to support it. Whether it will be us or not is an entirely different matter!

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