End of the World?

[Xordan]

Though some say if Wall Street does crash it will be the end of the world.

Nah, it'll be a lot like the collapse of the USSR. The 'other' systems will probably go on okayish (China etc. where manpower is worth way more than promises and confidence), the people at the top will disappear and be okay, and the people will suffer a whole lot.
Then things will slowly rebuild, hopefully under better systems. End of the world for some people maybe, but not for everyone.
Unless people at the top decide "what the hell" and push the red buttons for a laugh

Or maybe that doesn't matter. Apparently the sun's output is at a strangely low low and could go out at any moment! /endrumour

[Mathy Stockington]

The End of the World means different things to different people. I guess it depends on how greedy one is.

[Anumesa]

The end of the world will be when the A.Z.T. factory stops making Arizona Iced Green Tea. I am so addicted. 

[Gaian]

*Gaian backs on the thread*
Uhm...
Wait a moment:
are we still talking about how should the world end (because Eliseth or verden will push a button, or because of black holes,...) and about what we can do to make it end as late as it's possible, or we started talking about what is the end of the world for everybody?
Surely, when you die we can say that it will be your end of the world... well, maybe it's something like "your end on the world".
Obviously,  there are metaphorical versions of the end of the world, as the example of Wall Street or the addicting Arizona Iced Green Tea or the cream scone.
Anyways in a way or in another one everything will come to an end: the world, the humanity (and with it Wall Street, the Arizona Iced Green Tea and all the cream scones.)...
And something new will begin.
Maybe first that the Big Bang there's been something else, destroyed by something other that's been destroyed by something other,..

[Entevir]

Quite simplistically you idea is plausible. What we know is the definition of what we don't.
Still. I prefer to think that i will not die and will never end. That gives me all the more of a push forward to do as much as possible. I'm the kind of person who would gladly cut you open for a little fun with a scalpel and if cryogenic freezing becomes available in my lifetime I'm going for it.

[Gaian]

Entevir: you're right, thinking that you're immortal will make you react more easily to harder things, so be happy: I'm not going to dice up all what you said and raise another complaint
Sadly everybody will die, who soon who late. Science is making our life more long, but we'll never be immortal because nobody will never be alive after if you've diced up his brain.
It should be another interesting thing to talk about, but doing this we'll jump off this thread.



So, you all, keep thinking, if you have the time, please. What can we do? Or, better, can we do something?

[Mathy Stockington]

We are trying to make things better, or shall I say most countries are. So with more fuel efficient cars and using wind and solar power are we really helping to make the earth last longer? Will using what nature has given us help? Or someday will the sun still grow so hot that the earth will explode anyway? All I can say is I hope I will not see this in my life time. Can we prevent was is inevitable? If it going to happen then it is going to happen. Isn't space exploration so that one day the chosen few can find a new home before it is to late. Hopefully this is a long time off as I said. So in the mean time I guess we can try to do the best we can to make it a healthier planet in which to live.

[Earl_Listbard]

The world, by human means, is beyond repair. Take your death with pride, or at least dignity. Maybe if we're lucky some aliens will come upon the ruins known as earth, then perhaps everything we've known and lived for may be a footnote in some history book of a superior specie's school book.

[Volund]

If the world is going to end in a exact date. For sure. No doubt.
Then...
I'm going to do anything and everything. 
Then again, so many people have predicted the end of the world. They were wrong. Know how they were wrong? I'm alive.
But their is still the Myan calendar prediction in a couple years, they have never been wrong before.
SET YOUR CLOCKS PEOPLE

[Gaian]

Well,  then let's see if  the Mayan calendar was done just by somebody that didn't know what to do and started throw numbers around and decided that that year the world will end... or maybe thy did a good thing, maybe they were right.
Live, while you're alive... just live, and do what you can 

[neko kyouran]

With the whole Mayan calender thing....  it doesn't end on that final day, it just starts a new cycle that would take another umpteen hundred years to go through....

but crazy theories of the world blowing up are much more interesting to read about than boring facts.

/shrug

[Mathy Stockington]

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/oracle/9941/

Maybe this applies. I guess it what you believe in. Who knows who is right and who is wrong? Maybe it might not happen at all. Of course is nothing wrong with making the most of each and everyday anyway, right?

[neko kyouran]

I believe that geocities websites are so 1990.

[Raa]

You know, I've been thinking about something completely ridiculous... What if the world has ended. What if every time someone predicts the end of the world, the world does end, but we continue on in another dimension. And there are branches of our dimension, each a different end-of-the-world. But our minds/spirits/whatever can't exist in nothing, so they are transferred to the dimension where we're alive, so that it seems as if the world never ended.

That would be freaky.

[Xordan]

You know, I've been thinking about something completely ridiculous... What if the world has ended. What if every time someone predicts the end of the world, the world does end, but we continue on in another dimension. And there are branches of our dimension, each a different end-of-the-world. But our minds/spirits/whatever can't exist in nothing, so they are transferred to the dimension where we're alive, so that it seems as if the world never ended.

That would be freaky.

There's a similar quantum theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/ManyWorlds.html
In essence, for every quantum event that happens, the universe splits into every single possibility, one of which the observer stays in.