Posted 24 February 2012 - 11:59 AM
i just lost all of my post whoops
Um what was I saying? Oh yes. i do believe the world is going to end someday. Our planet can't be around forever, you know. To me, it's just unfathomable that something will exist 'forever' It's going to die someday, although I don't think it will for a few more [m/b]illion years at the very least. And at that time, I really don't think humans, or life in general, will be here anymore.
Now the human race and life as we know it, I think is going to at least hold out for another 50 more years (because I'm really unsure of the rate we're attacking our planet is at. It may be more close to 1000, I don't know. And trying to imagine what life will be like in 50 years sorta scares me) Well, that's if we don't take better care of it. But the human race dying out, as the earth dying out, is completely inevitable. Now how that'll happen is questionable: I'm on the boat of we're slowly destroying our planet and it'll be unable to care for us as it has been. I do believe we'll die other before other species though. And then after we're gone?Who knows? But eventually,the earth will die.
Do I think the earth will end in 2012? Nope.Unless we get a superpowered virus or something. Even a giant asteroid I don't think would do it.
But when the world ends, or the human race ends, it's just going to die. It's nothing I think we can predict. At least until it starts happening, I guess. But at the time we know it'll happen, I don't believe
As Nymh said, a new age is what might happen. Honestly, it's not for sure. I believe, whatever happens in 2012, is completely up to humans. If we decide to take better care of our planet, and fix lots of things, there might be a new golden age. But if we continue slowly killing the planet and things, things will just continue going downhill. Or if we decide to produce a supervirus, we could kill ourselves,s that too.Nothing is set in stone. That technological thing that soul stealer posted is definitely something I feel makes sense. /casually reads through wiki (since it's my first time hearing about it) I don't think it's a for sure thing (I think end/death is the only sure thing. and uncertainty. When looking at the future,anyways) but I can definitely see it happening sometime. it sorta reminds of the Proto Fal'Cie Adam from Final Fantasy XIII-2, or Mass/Powerful Artificial intelligence, since that game, has scared me. Then again, I guess humans could take over and do things very similar.
Then again, part of me believes we'll die out before AI is prevalent in the world. Eh. I'll have to look into that more. I've heard of robotic/AI age, but I didn't know there was an entire subject on the matter. Hm.
I think it's rather funny how people think the Mayan Calander predicted the end of the world. As the OP said, it's basically the end of a calender, like the end of our yearly one. I do think it's sorta creepy how those civilizations just seemed to disappear, but they probably just died out due to Famine or something of the like. I don't know.
With my limited knowledge of science and technology, being only in High School, that probably wasn't very convincing and I probably don't know anything, but eh.
/steps off soap box