ok does any 1 now how the earth will end as i am not complety sur some say it is the end of the mayan clander but the dates have changed over the years can someone explain this to me?
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DAMON
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Dr. Cameron
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Koogle
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lolzDr. Cameron said:Is tomorrow 6:00 PM fine for you?
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littleguru
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wikipedia said:
Around 5.4 billion years from now, the hydrogen in the core of the Sun will have been entirely converted to helium, ending the main sequence phase. At this time, the outer layers of the Sun will expand to roughly up to 260 times its current diameter; the Sun will become a red giant. Because of its vastly increased surface area, the surface of the Sun will be considerably cooler than it is on the main sequence (2600 K at the coolest).[92]
Eventually, the Sun's outer layers will fall away, leaving a white dwarf, an extraordinarily dense object, half the original mass of the Sun but only the size of the Earth.[93] The ejected outer layers will form what is known as a planetary nebula, returning some of the material that formed the Sun to the interstellar medium.
That's when the earth will die and that's why... -
December 21, 2012, according to the 2012 Doomsday prediction (2012 Doomsday prediction [Wikipedia]). That date is based on the Mayan calendar to which you alluded.
littleguru's answer addresses the less anthropomorphic question of when the Earth as an astronomical entity will end. It is likely that humanity will cease to exist on Earth long before that happens though.
Ever since humanity figured out the atom bomb, the probability of life as we know it ending has become disturbingly palpable, and, ingenious tinkering warmongers that we are, we seem to devise more sinister ways to destroy ourselves everyday.
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Sven Groot
Don't worry... I'm a doctor.
When Dovella starts using Linux and corona_coder admits Windows is great. At this point reality will collapse in on itself and thus the Earth will end, along with everything else.
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Kevin Daly
Because.
I'm with Littleguru on this one.littleguru said:
Humanity of course will be long gone by that time - not through anything dramatic like nuclear war, but just crapping in our own bed and refusing to do anything about it because of short-term financial interests and general stupidity. For humanity at least:
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper
PS. The next person who mentions the Maya , I swear I'll scream. They were pretty good mathematicians but like everybody else they knew nothing about the future. The only notable thing about 2012 is that it will come between 2011 and 2013. -
W3bbo
Work hard; increase production; prevent accidents, and be happy.
I hear Windows Server 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 come out that year too.Kevin Daly said:
I'm with Littleguru on this one.littleguru said:*snip*
Humanity of course will be long gone by that time - not through anything dramatic like nuclear war, but just crapping in our own bed and refusing to do anything about it because of short-term financial interests and general stupidity. For humanity at least:
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper
PS. The next person who mentions the Maya , I swear I'll scream. They were pretty good mathematicians but like everybody else they knew nothing about the future. The only notable thing about 2012 is that it will come between 2011 and 2013.
...although 2 years between VS2010 and VS2012 might be a little too soon; but would Microsoft release a software titled "2013"? Will we see the return of version numbers?
As for anyone with theological concerns about any given apocalypse date, consider that the sacred texts of most world religions specifically say that no human knows the date, so there. I recommend you read up on James Randi and BadAstronomy
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evildictaitor
Devil's advocate
Even that's not clear. It is possible that the Earth would be blown away along with the hot gases (which would scorch the Earth, killing anything that wasn't already dead), at which point it would just wander through space until it was picked up in the orbit of something else.littleguru said:
All life on the planet would be very very much dead by then, but it's plausible that the Earth itself would survive the death of the Sun.
Also, I hate to mention it, but Mayan mathematics is pretty simple compared to what we have now. They're not like some special ancient race who built cities under the sea and knew how to travel into space. -
TommyCarlier
Widen your gaze
Has anyone seen “Knowing”? That showed a pretty cool “end of the world”.
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Sven Groot
Don't worry... I'm a doctor.
evildictaitor said:
Even that's not clear. It is possible that the Earth would be blown away along with the hot gases (which would scorch the Earth, killing anything that wasn't already dead), at which point it would just wander through space until it was picked up in the orbit of something else.littleguru said:*snip*
All life on the planet would be very very much dead by then, but it's plausible that the Earth itself would survive the death of the Sun.
Also, I hate to mention it, but Mayan mathematics is pretty simple compared to what we have now. They're not like some special ancient race who built cities under the sea and knew how to travel into space.Actually, the Earth will be destroyed by a Vogon constructor fleet long before then.
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GoddersUK
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The earth will be destroyed when "The World's Hardest Riddle" thread becomes so large that storing that amount of data in one place causes the datacentre to collapse in on itself, forming a superdense mini black hole.Sven Groot said:evildictaitor said:*snip*Actually, the Earth will be destroyed by a Vogon constructor fleet long before then.
If the Vogons don't get here first.
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RoyalSchrubber
One. How many time travellers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Earth has already ended, we are living in a matrix. The virtual earth will end when Neo beats evil evil robots.
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Bas
It finds lightbulbs.
I hope Neo can wait a little while, I'm kind of interested to see what Virtual Earth will be announcing in that webcast of theirs.RoyalSchrubber said:Earth has already ended, we are living in a matrix. The virtual earth will end when Neo beats evil evil robots. -
Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)
The matrix theory is right, the Neo theory isn't. The rest is classified confidential information, I am not allowed to tell you, because it would make you actually believe what I just said. Believe it or not, that's your decision.Bas said:
I hope Neo can wait a little while, I'm kind of interested to see what Virtual Earth will be announcing in that webcast of theirs.RoyalSchrubber said:*snip*
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Bas
It finds lightbulbs.
This has Turrican written all over it.Dodo said:
The matrix theory is right, the Neo theory isn't. The rest is classified confidential information, I am not allowed to tell you, because it would make you actually believe what I just said. Believe it or not, that's your decision.Bas said:*snip*
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Harlequin
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The "Life after People" show last night on History was pretty neat. First part was a bit boring but once it hit 50 Years after the boys started watching itBas said:
This has Turrican written all over it.Dodo said:*snip*
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Classic. (btw; and from the "Chosen one"s list, I guess nobody is listed.)TommyCarlier said:Has anyone seen “Knowing”? That showed a pretty cool “end of the world”.
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