Samuel Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 Technology is amazing. London just ain't gonna flood, because of the defence barriers in place (which are massive). If other cities take the same route, then we'll be fine. You all seem to be under the impression that because global warming is happening, we aren't doing it, and its an accepted fact that we can't change. We are doing stuff about it, and an awful lot. The idea that sea levels would just rise enough to flood a city, in a developed country? I don't see it. :) Cloning humans is looked down upon, but it will carry on further. With that, humans in a hundred years or so could be immune to more diseases (such as HIV) which means we'd live longer. And with stem cell research continuing, human health'll improve even further. The Evil Guy, in an earlier post you made links to a 'pattern'. Whilst all true, that doesn't mean it's set to continue. After WW1, the League of Nations was set up to avoid war; this was later replaced with a much more effective United Nations. The creation of nuclear weapons is extremely tightly controlled - most countries are, by UN law, not allowed to even test a nuclear weapon, and the only countries allowed to produce weapons, and which have acknowledged that they are developing them, are the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, and PR China. India, Pakistan and North Korea are known to also have them (and their manufacture is even more closely scrutinised), and Israel doesn't deny that they have them. Either way, as we've seen with Iran, any country thought to be developing weapons can be severely punished and scrutinised. This is sure to continue. A country can't simply just start creating weapons - especially if they're European. The idea of some massive nuclear fallout is unlikely, not least because of the countries involved who have the weapons currently, but mainly because the politics behind today's political environment just wouldn't let a situation like that present itself. Pre-WW2 was totally different (the League of Nations had failed, was weak - neither had Russia nor the US, and made considerable lapses in Manchuria and Abbyssinia) so a much stronger UN was established, which is even stronger today. It just wouldn't happen. What might happen is more diplomatic fights - expelling foreign diplomats etc., but no major war to end the world. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 You do have points there, and I certainly hope that we're doing enough about global warming, because believe me, the past few years of weather where I live have not been normal. Especially this year - we had rainy season weather in the mid-late dry season, and now that it's early/mid rainy season we're having dry season weather. At least some good's come out of it - the haze only sticks around because it comes in the late dry season. With all that rain, it barely lasted a week. Oh, and about sea level rise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_gl...#Sea_level_rise So nobody really knows how much it will rise - it might not rise at all, or it might rise 25 meters or more over the next century. Nature is just too unpredictable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loc Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I believe that the U.S. will fall out of world power and bring everyone down with it though hundreds of nuclear explosions, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fable Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I don't know how to explain my thoughts but I think the world will end by a massive heat wave by the sun.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOOM Bringer Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I believe that the U.S. will fall out of world power and bring everyone down with it though hundreds of nuclear explosions, That seriously sounds like a book I read a month or two ago. The Americans had this huge bomb waiting to destroy the world if they fell out of power, their theory was that if they couldn't have the world, then nobody could. Written by a great Australian author :P Who knows when the world will end? Who cares? I think we should all work on making the present world a better place for the future, which will possible delay the end of the world. We should all think about today and stop worrying about tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Sounds like one of the billion useless DOOM projects I've had to discard over the past few days. :evil: But I hold firm to my belief that humans will be a major contributor to their own destruction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I think the world will end witch a Nuclear explosion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 I doubt a single nuclear explosion would be enough to end the world... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOOM Bringer Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 I'm not even sure if DOOM could muster up one large enough... Or could they? :shiftyeyes_anim: Mwuahahaha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 Using a single nuke to achieve that effect is chronically inefficient. Multiple nuclear explosions would do the job. And the thing is, several of the world's militaries have the weapons to start a nuclear war right now. The only thing holding them back is diplomacy and common sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Levy Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 How the world will end... huh... Well I think that someone stupid will end up doing something stupid to provoke some other stupid person into returning the stupid favor. Incidentally, both stupid people ended up having nuclear capabilities. <_< Who knew? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neon_halo Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 I have to say, if the world, or rather, humanity isn't ended by an evil corporation that 'accidently' zombies us all up until we're all infected and die...uh...die again, I will be very disappointed. It's the only scenario I'm prepared for. More realisticly, I think the industrial revolution is the starting point of the end of the world. That is, as a result of the industrial revolution (the beginning of mass use of fuels and such), we are over-consuming natural resources (oil, gas, coal), which will be used up quite possibly in this lifetime, leading to a major energy crisis. Now, I don't know how we're going to pull through that, but if we do, living conditions are going to be a fair bit worse for a while when nations are in 'recovery'. Poor living conditions lead to poor health, and this 'recovery' period may leave us more prone to diesease, and death. Now, I'm not saying that we're all going to be wiped out at this point, just that it is possible that populations will be decreased as a result of said conditions, and another factor- money. The collapse of fossil fuel industry, oil particularly, may lead to an economic regression, and if the 'recovery' period I have mentioned does not sucessfully tackle this regression, economic collapse may follow. This will, of course, be effecting developed countries and America. As a result of economic collapse, money will not be flowing from governments as readily as today and less money would be put into public health due to this, and, to link back to my previous point, due to governments focus on tackling the energy crisis. A different factor that, along with the energy crisis, health care provision, and economic collapse, which would become progressively more apparent and help end humanity is global warming. Changes in world conditions are not being fought fast enough, and it will probably come down to whether we can adapt well enough to the new world to survive. Unfortunatly, evolution takes millions of years, and we do not have time on our side. Adaption, in the other sense (the building of flood barriers, ect.), to the new world will cost money, money which will not be availible enough to help prevent our end, due to the above circumstances. It occurs to me, that at this point, I am mostly refering to developed countries. The continant of Africa, however, probably will only be most effected by the change in environmental factors, ie, global warming. In conclusion, I think various factors, which began at the dawn of the industrial revolution, will build up to cause the end of humanity. These factors being economic, societal, and environmental. I think that it is the environmental factors that will cause the end of the actual world, seeing as humanity will not be around for that bit. Alternatively, zombies. Lot's of zombies. Just hope you're near a good resident evil character at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lutarist Jake Posted January 1, 2008 Author Share Posted January 1, 2008 So you are saying that certain circumstances will turn us all into the zombies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neon_halo Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 So you are saying that certain circumstances will turn us all into the zombies? No, the zombie thing was a joke, but good job on reading the first and last couple sentences of my post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 That was an interesting post, with many valid points. Although I guess it would be possible for humanity to survive if they adapted properly, like building floating cities instead of flood barriers or something like that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neon_halo Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 That was an interesting post, with many valid points. Although I guess it would be possible for humanity to survive if they adapted properly, like building floating cities instead of flood barriers or something like that... Ah, yes, I don't want to seem incredibly pesimistic. I do agree that, if humanity adapts fast and well enough, there could be survival. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HBK Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Well, who knows, but probably in 2095 we'll all be driving flying cars and there will be a giant floating pyramid in the sky of New York or something.... Future is, for now, unpredictable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 A principle of science - if you predict something will happen, it changes just to spite you. :P So we can still only guess at how the world will end... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loc Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 I know one thing for sure, science wont tell us what will happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Right now, science can't say. But science is uncannily good at predicting things (like disasters) while its predictions are sadly ignored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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