why so certain

[ayresy81]

why are ppl so certain the world is not going to end 2012 when you really think about how small our little planet is it could all end anytime.this planet isnt going to last forever

[Count-A-Strong]

The 'Conservables' might be going to arrange it to avoid paying for the Olympics. I hope it happens after the Royal wedding tho, I'd hate to miss a bank hol.

[NazNomad]

Who's certain?

Although, I'm waiting for the embarrassing silence in 2013 when we realise that we're still here.

[jake-the-peg]

Because remarkable claims require remarkable proofs.

there have been thousands of claims of the end of the world and they've all been wrong.

So when we see another we have to ask Why? How is the world going to end.

The answer comes back an ancient American calander will end then.

So we ask why should be believe them when they could not even invent the wheel?

We don't even know that they truely thought the world would end then.

It makes as much sense as thinking that the world will end when we run out of car number plate values

[mollykins]

It's going to be such an anticlimax, like when people kept saying the workld was going to implode or be sucked into a black hole created by that particle collider in belgium and everyone was saying how ironic it would be if one of the msot peaceful countries in the world destroyed the world. But I happened to be in a science lesson with the awesome and much loved physcis teacher that is now my form tutor and he was trying to explain how it works and convince us how it was going to be 'impossible' for it to destroy the world.

[mollykins]

we won't jake, we'll just make the amount of digits longer . . .

[ayresy81]

we may be still here but what im saying is its going to happen one day and the way the worlds going at the moment i can see it sooner than later.i reckon it will be nuclear war that finishes us off

[jackthehat]

People are very certain that the Mayan Calendar is NOT predicting the end of the world. It'd just be a helluva coincidence if it happens at that time.........

[Count-A-Strong]

could be ayresy, could be.

[jno]

what do you mean by the world ending? The planet exploding? Or jus the human race dying out as zillions of other races have done before us?

[jake-the-peg]

Here's 10 failed apocalypses to get you going

http://listverse.com/...calyptic-predictions/

[mccfluff]

thought that was switzerland molly?

[ayresy81]

hadron collider hasnt been fully operational yet theres still time and the wheel was invented long before the mayans

[ayresy81]

when i say world ending i mean by any thing just some ppl think we are invincible and take it all for granted

[mollykins]

I was close with belgium, I knew it was one of the little countries surrounding france . . .

[jake-the-peg]

I think the Mayans might have done the same too Molly - don't you?

It will take a lot to wipe out humanity with our current geographic dispursal - I doubt a nuclear war could do it alone.

A nuclear war combined with a major health issue perhaps or my money would be on a supervolcano or manle plume like the Deccan traps.

Something on that scale

[mollykins]

Number eight was close considering that's when a world war started . . .

[jno]

yes, but do you mean the planet or the people on it?

I expect a decent sized meteorite could wipe out a lot of human life and leave the rest in a nuclear winter they might or might not survive. The Black Death killed anything up to half the population of Europe.The Mt Toba eruption (about 70,000 BC) may have reduced humanity to less than 10,000 people. So yes, it may be possible.

[redcrx]

if the bridge at Knaresborough falls again then i may start to worry about it, but for now i shall give life as it comes and enjoy what time i may have.

[mollykins]

Plus don't they reckon that when the yellowstone supervolcanoe erupts, that'll kill eevryone?

[ayresy81]

supervolcano is a strong possibilty if yellow stone erupted it would wipe out 90 per cent of life and its overdue