If the earth was ending tomorrow what would you do? There have been many theories surrounding the termination of the world. There have been many predictions about the termination of the world. However, as much as no one knows when the universe will finish the discussion will never finish.
There are many factors that can lead to the finishing of the earth. Most of them are humanly related such as global warming and self-destruction from manmade destructors such as bombs. If the universe was stopping is there anything we would do to stop it from stopping? People have different priorities. However, if the earth was stopping tomorrow and we have one day to live most people would run through the time with their most treasured things. In this case, most people treasure families and therefore many people would choose to be with families.
If the world ends tomorrow other people will go into hiding. Planet X. The Mayan calendar apocalypse. The rapture. A new great flood. An unstoppable fire. A biblical prophesy. A supervolcano. Or a rogue asteroid or comet slamming into us. Every few years, or maybe even every few months depending where on the internet you go , a new story, speculation, or conspiracy will go viral, claiming that the end of the world is near.
Some claims are very specific; others are more vague. Yet we don't live in a world where myth and mysticism dominate our thinking; we know that we can comprehend all that's to come using the predictive power of science. Based on what we know, there are four ways the Earth will meet its eventual end, and they're all going to happen someday. Here's what that's going to look like. The largest human-made explosion to ever occur on Earth.
Nuclear war, and the subsequent damage to The extinction of humanity. This is not just prophesy; this is an inevitability. Although there are over seven billion of us and growing today, humans have only been around in our current form for under a million years, with all of the great apes having existed for only a few million years.
Evolution may be slow to occur in our species on the timescale of a single human lifetime, but over millions of years, it's inevitable. As the Earth changes, the pressures on different species to survive will change as well, all while random genetic mutations occur. Some mutations are beneficial to surviving the present pressures, and those are the genes that are most likely to get passed on.
Evolutionarily speaking, human beings - or homo sapiens - have been around for a cosmic Based on how evolution works, it is unlikely there will be any humans left even just a few million years from now. Whether those offspring of humanity millions of years from now remain sentient, as we know it, is beside the point; the point is that millions of years from now, even if there are descendants of humans still around, they won't be human any longer.
Humans themselves face pressure from a changing planet with limited resources, from other humans in the form of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons , and from the natural world in the form of disease. Whether an out-of-this-world catastrophe, like an asteroid strike, occurs or not, the demise of humanity is inevitable.
Whether we have descendants that survive or not is immaterial; we will go extinct on this world eventually. On geological and astronomical timescales, this is likely to happen sooner than later, and will be the first "end of the world" for us. Today on Earth, ocean water only boils, typically, when lava or some other superheated material But in the far future, the Sun's energy will be enough to do it, and on a global scale.
The precise timing of when that starts and how long it takes — the deoxygenation process could take as few as 10, years — depends on a broad range of factors. But, in the end, the authors say this cataclysm is an unavoidable one for the planet. Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter.
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But no matter what, a cataclysmic event 1 billion years from now will likely rob the planet of oxygen, wiping out life. Life is resilient. The first living things on Earth appeared as far back as 4 billion years ago, according to some scientists. At the time, our planet was still being pummeled by huge space rocks.
But life persisted anyway. Disparate doomsdays — from supernovae blasts and asteroid strikes to huge volcanic eruptions and sudden climate shifts — have killed countless lifeforms. And at times, those mass extinctions have even eliminated most species on Earth.
Yet, life has always rebounded. New species emerge. The cycle repeats. This artist's illustration highlights the tremendous amount of energy released when an asteroid strikes a planet. Asteroid impact apocalypse When a city-sized asteroid struck the Gulf of Mexico 66 million years ago , it was game over for the dinosaurs, as well as most other species on Earth at the time.
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