Is the world going to end?

[Blushing Bottom]

Why that's silly.

Displacement of course.

Just for fun, try a little experiment.
Put ice cubes in a glass, then fill the glass with water to the brim. Now, just let the glass set, so the ice cubes will melt. What do you think is going to happen?

 

[TooTiredToLive]

As a solipsist, I'm sorry to tell you that you all are just bit players on the stage on which I am the lead actor... and when my part ends, the stage will be struck, the lights doused, and the theater closed.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

That can't be right... I'm the lead actor!

 

[Sir Victor]

Over the past month, I have had this undeniable feeling that the world is going to end in my lifetime, and probably sooner than later. I'm not normally a doom-n-gloom person, as yall know, so this is kind of a weird position I find my mind in. What's even weirder to me is the overwhelming majority of my friends, coworkers and acquaintances who feel the same way. The end is nigh, or sum shit.

What do you think? Are you basing your opinion on facts or just a feeling? Share links, share perspectives.

You posted this about a month ago, could it be seasonal depression, or perhaps the milder "winter blues"? Doom-n-gloom is a sign of depression.
People feeling the same way could just be everyone having "winter blues".

Or did you mean it on an intellectual level, war, polution, social decline, etc.

Or on a spiritual level?

 

[Life_Noir]

HEY! I thought "I" was Evil incarnate... *grin* At least that's what she told me... Damn..


Heard an interesting theory about the Mayan "end of times"... Though in their calendar I suppose it should be called an end of an "age" or "cycle"..

Lessee if I remember this correctly...

Evidently, the magnetic poles swap every once and a while... Which means not only is the Earth a big ass generator...It's alternating current too...

Being as the magnetic field in question is all that keeps us from being fried by the solar wind................ {Yeah...it WAS part of a questionable movie plot.. "The Core" I think}

Nobody has a clue as to what happens during the transition...Or how long it lasts.

On a lighter note... We Need KC for this one...

"Four Ponygirls Of The Apocolypse"????

 

[Aeroil]

wa-ha, Humes are more resilient than you may think, we'll be around for a while. Climate change won't kill us, not by a long shot, and while I seriously doubt a nuclear war will ever happen, if it does we'll tough it out.
There will be no divine apocalypse, and 'tis a disgrace to the planet that gave us life, the planet whose matter you're made of right now, to assume that it's out of our hands, regardless of whether or not it is.

An unpopular opinion, I'm sure ;D

 

[Aeroil]

HEY! I thought "I" was Evil incarnate... *grin* At least that's what she told me... Damn..


Heard an interesting theory about the Mayan "end of times"... Though in their calendar I suppose it should be called an end of an "age" or "cycle"..

Lessee if I remember this correctly...

Evidently, the magnetic poles swap every once and a while... Which means not only is the Earth a big ass generator...It's alternating current too...

Being as the magnetic field in question is all that keeps us from being fried by the solar wind................ {Yeah...it WAS part of a questionable movie plot.. "The Core" I think}

Nobody has a clue as to what happens during the transition...Or how long it lasts.

On a lighter note... We Need KC for this one...

"Four Ponygirls Of The Apocolypse"????

lolz, "The Core" was utter garbage.

Geomagnetic reversals happen all the time, and we're still around. At worst, a few satellites will end up scrapped.

 

[Life_Noir]

lolz, "The Core" was utter garbage.

Geomagnetic reversals happen all the time, and we're still around. At worst, a few satellites will end up scrapped.

Yup ...it sucked...

But then I wouldn't use the phrase "all the time"...

"Over very long periods, geomagnetic reversal seems to have occurred with a frequency of 1 to 5 events per million years; however, this duration is highly variable. During some periods of geologic time (e.g. Cretaceous long normal), the Earth's magnetic field is observed to maintain a single orientation for tens of millions of years. Other events seem to have occurred very rapidly, with more than one reversal in 50,000 years. The last reversal was the Brunhes-Matuyama reversal approximately 780,000 years ago."

Snagged from the ever popular wickepedia because of their brevity.

This however, is kind of neat....Kinda fun in a sort of semi apocolyptic sort of way...

http://www.psc.edu/science/Glatzmaier/glatzmaier.html

 

[Aeroil]

1-5 events per million years is indeed all the time on a geographic scale :3

 

[cobblestonefog]

I think that everyone feels that way at some point in their life because it's human nature to have the 'the world revolves around me' mindset, no matter how hard we try not to. Whether we realize it or not, we do see ourselves as the focus point of the universe. So, it's only natural for us to feel that if the world is going to end, it's going to end in our lifetime because we think that once we end, everything else comes to an end as well because we won't be experiencing life as we know it now.
Whoa. Does that make any sense at all?
(That's a lot of becauses haha)