the end is nigh

how long ,do you think planet earth has to go before it goes bang? due to over population and polution.

 

not with a bang but a whimper

Bob

 

This is sooo disappointing. I thought rh was announcing his departure.

 

you cheeky g-t markus .they will have to take me out of this forum in a box i'm affraid i love it here. bbv is a great bloke

 

21 years, 2 months, 3 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, 2 seconds. at a rough guess! :lol:

 

I do hope its a little longer than that Lee, I must say !

 

Arse, i have a date 3 minutes after that

 

Are you discounting Armageddon from the options? Its as likely as global warming anyway

 

Well I keep hearing on the news that either we'll stave to death in 20 years or there is a commet heading right for us and it'll hit us in that time, plus all the other scare stores.
So I'm not going to waste a single second!
Live while I'm alive, sleep when I'm dead! :lol:

 

To add another angle to this thread. How do people expect humanity to end?

People often talk about it like we'll be here till the Earth goes bang. But many have come and gone before us. Dinosaurs 150 million years, Trilobites 300 million years (I think).... and humans have been here approx half of 1% of the time they were here.

We are but a blink in the Earths history.

Mt St Helens has been mentioned in another thread. Yellowstone is predicted to be capable of massive destruction, and we've no idea when it might happen, and probably wouldn't get much notice (not that it'd be much good).

Plagues and viruses? Throughout history they've popped up with little or no warning, killing millions, only to dissapear without a trace. With our willingness to use antibiotics so readily, they're effectiveness is reducing. Drug companies would rather invest in anti depressants and such where there's MOre MOney to be made. With world travel so common today, disease could spread at crazy speeds.

Who knows?

Maybe we'll be around forever?

 

Each of the 'higher' species does seem to have a life cycle, bacteria have been around the longest and could well be described as the most successful life form. Ants have also done quite well

 

User guide to ending planet earth:

http://www.livescience.com/technology/10ways_destroyearth.html

 

I never thought Yogi Bear would be the death of us all.

 

oops! edited

 

if whatever happens happens, I'd prefer fast and painless than slow and painful

 

Tough luck then! Our sun is dying and WILL go supernova eventually While most of us can average a healthy lifespan of 80 to 90 years, our sun's life expectancy eclipses that by a good bit -- most scientists estimate that the sun will continue to burn brightly for another five billion years or so.

 

yea it will, but the human race won't be here to see it for sure. i give the planet 100 years tops.

 

Planet Earth is quite hard to destroy but human's are quite delicate even when you got big muscles like Arnie

 

i'll be back andi?

 

I want a nuclear war.