• Question: What do you think will casue the end of the world (when or if it ever comes)?

    Asked by kw28 to Andrew, Emma, Marianne on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by calamm8, sailingkid.
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      Andrew Maynard answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Hi kw28,

      Probably nothing more exciting than the Sun getting old and engulfing the Earth as it turns into a Red Giant in several billion years’ time.

      Of course we may be hit by a large asteroid – or even a comet – way before then. But unless these are really large collisions, I suspect something of the Earth will be left over afterwards.

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      anon answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Wouldn’t it be depressing if it was us? What theory do you favour?

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      anon answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Hi kw28, sailingkind and calamm8…ooh it could be us, the human race, or it could be a meteorite shower or a catastrophic volcanic eruption…who knows???!!!:)

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      Marianne Baker answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Most likely the expansion of our sun – the Earth won’t be here forever, and that’s the most likely end of it, I think. Though very far in the future.

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      Emma Pilgrim answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Human greed

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    u26durberk commented on :

    Yeah, but some scientists have predicted the end of the Earth many times, for example the world ending in the year 2000 and the new machine that was going to try and echo the big bang was possibly going to make a black hole that was going to kill everyone and the world we live on, but it never actually happens. I don’t believe that people can predict when the Earth is going to end and why, all we know is that it will happen one day.