Ever seen 2012? Freaky as heck. What about Armageddon, Knowing, Deep Impact, Water World, The day after Tommorow? As if having a terror teacher is not enough, scientists and movie makers across the globe has been bombarding us with lies that the earth is about to end.
Lies?
Maybe not.
What events could possibly trigger the end of this planet and the doom of our species?
Lets start with the human induced extinction.
1. Nuclear War- North Korea has been testing out its powers lately. There was also an incident involving Russia that triggered quite a spectacular sky phenomenon after a failed nuke test. I doubt the middle east would allow other countries to dominate them and so I'm sure they have something in their shores as well. USA seemed pretty powerful especially when it dropped A-Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War 2.
I just hope they dont start dropping again.
2.Global Warming
Yup..smoking that joint kills not only you but the person beside you as well. Plus smoking in public is against the law you know.(Clean Air Act Rule XXIX Section 1). I think people who smoke in public places is down right stupid. Its common sense. You know its harmful to people, why smoke it in places where other people can inhale your poison?
Smoking is not the only cause of Global Warming though. Its the buses, cars, and every internal combustion engine that you see down the street. Our factories contribute much to this as well.
Even our friendly neighborhood Tsang and Tsong contributes to global warming. How? Well, whenever they would gather leaves and burn it along plastic trash.
Global Warming happens these pollutants would stay up on the air and prevents heat from being reflected back to outer space. Thus, acting like a blanket.
Global Warming could lead to the melting of polar ice caps and flooding the earth. Watch Water World and you'll see what I mean.
A top New Zealand researcher has used a prestigious award ceremony in Christchurch to warn that humans face extinction by the end of the century. "After 40 years, I'm part of a huge community of scientists who have become alarmed with our discovery, that we know from our knowledge of the ancient past, that if we continue our present growth path, we are facing extinction," Barrett said. "Not in millions of years, or even millennia, but by the end of this century."
VANCOUVER, B.C. – In a live radio interview on December 20, 2004, Professor Peter Barrett, Director of Victoria, NZ University's Antarctic Research Centre, repeated his published warning that extinction of humankind and human society as we know it may come about within 100 years because of impending climate change and ecological catastrophe – unless humankind can dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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3. The Rise of the Machine
Computers might start acting up on itself and label man as a threat. Just like what Skynet did in the movie Terminator.
What about Natural Disasters?
1. Celestial Body Impact Collision
Armageddon and Deep Impact featured this concept. If a big chunk of rock falls on us it would be like Hiroshima but a thousand times worse. This is the reason according to some scientist why Barney's family disappeared.
Asteroid 2004 MN4, a floating rock in outer space was recently upgraded to "an unprecedented level of risk" of striking the planet on April 13, 2029 by NASA.
Freakin heck! That is scary.
2. A super volcano will erupt!
In the movie 2012, A new volcano was born as it erupted out of Yellowstone National Park. That was one scary crap. But no worries. Its only a movie, right?
Bad News is, YellowStone Caldera in Wyoming is actually a potential "bomba"
Dig down 25 miles into the earth and there is an undergound world of flowing Magma seeking to burst out so hostile you can't even imagine.
Scientists theorize that as many as 20 near surface Caldera chambers, like in Yellowstone exsist and that explosions of this magnitude happen about every 600,000 years at Yellowstone" and it's been about 620,000 since the last one.
3. A New Flu Strain will turn everyone into Undead
Resident Evil, Zombie land, Dawn of the Dead, I am Legend...what is the common theme for these movies? Some scientists genetically engineers a microscopic anti virus or something that evolves into something nasty. Turning everyone you know into you know what.
This is more like man's suicidal behavior but since the virus decided to evolve itself I'll categorize it as a natural disaster.
There is also another concept that is neither natural or made by man's device. Its the Invasion of Aliens like Slither or Indepence Day.
But what ever it is I'm sure you have a pretty good idea what you will do just in case you end up like Dr. Neville from the I Am Legend movie.
