How would you like the world to end?

[megamania]

Many of these are one and the same. Alignment = Pole shift for an example


I went with Pole shift since it has happened before and will happen again. Already the planet has a wobble effect happening with its rotation. Throw in the softening of the ice and chemicals we are putting in the air....

Whichever it is- I hope it happens quickly and while I'm sleeping. Death and Destruction to fun to role play but in real life I'm sure it would suck.

 

[The_Universe]

I'm going to have to go with Aliens, because Aliens are cool. Or Robots. Was robots an option?

Maybe I should have voted for Robot Aliens....

 

[Desdichado]

Huh? A lot of those options make no sense whatsoever. How is the Kuiper Belt, or Gliese 710 supposed to end the world, for example?

What the heck does Maya or Zarathustra mean?

Anyway, I voted mass insanity. Sounds fun enough. BTW, off topic polls are against the rules.

 

[Mystery Man]

Huh? A lot of those options make no sense whatsoever. How is the Kuiper Belt, or Gliese 710 supposed to end the world, for example?

What the heck does Maya or Zarathustra mean?

Anyway, I voted mass insanity. Sounds fun enough. BTW, off topic polls are against the rules.

Zarathustra taught his followers that our world had been created once and would end once.

In the future, he said, people will grow wicked and violent. Earthquakes and other disasters will strike the earth. After a long struggle, the forces of good and evil will meet in an enormous battle, after which everyone who has ever lived will have to wade through a vast river of hot molten metal. Evil people will burn up and disappear, but the good people will cross the river unharmed and live forever on a beautiful new earth.

Sounds like fun except for the hot molten metal part. Invest in fireproof shoes.

I still like a nice gamma burst. One big zap to make a ball of ash.

 

[WayneLigon]

Huh? A lot of those options make no sense whatsoever. How is the Kuiper Belt, or Gliese 710 supposed to end the world, for example?

What the heck does Maya or Zarathustra mean?

Anyway, I voted mass insanity. Sounds fun enough. BTW, off topic polls are against the rules.

The Kuiper Belt has a tremendous reserve of large icy objects that could be diverted into the inner system and crash into Earth.

Gliese 710 is a small red dwarf sun that will come within 1 light year of Earth; though it poses no collision possibility, the idea is that gravitational influence will tear loose a whole new host of comets from the Oort cloud and send them towards the inner system. Gliese 710 isn't going to be here for about 1.3 million years though, since it's currently 63 light years from us.

The Mayan calender says the world ends in 2012; that's where ShadowRun got the idea.

The Gathas ("Hymns") of Zarathushtra talk about the cleansing of the world.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Well, with that description, I had to go with Gliese 710.

Though I really would have preferred to vote "Cthulhu" (but that wasn't an option).

 

[WayneLigon]

Well, with that description, I had to go with Gliese 710.

Though I really would have preferred to vote "Cthulhu" (but that wasn't an option).

By the time It gets here, I think we'll be more than capable of dealing with it We'll probably have destroyed all the extrasolar bodies we can to mine then for their resources, so there probably won't be any comets to fling at us. Or we'll just nudge Gliese aside. Or cage it and use it as a minor power source.

 

[Desdichado]

The Kuiper Belt has a tremendous reserve of large icy objects that could be diverted into the inner system and crash into Earth.

Gliese 710 is a small red dwarf sun that will come within 1 light year of Earth; though it poses no collision possibility, the idea is that gravitational influence will tear loose a whole new host of comets from the Oort cloud and send them towards the inner system. Gliese 710 isn't going to be here for about 1.3 million years though, since it's currently 63 light years from us.

I know what the Kuiper Belt is, I just don't see how it's supposed to end the world. That's a little like saying Uranus will end the world.

I also knew what Gliese 710 was, but I had not heard that it was supposed to make such a "close call" with our system. Cool info, thanks!

And Maya and Zarathustra -- I knew about those prophecies, but I still don't see how either of them is supposed to cause the end of the world. A prophecy of the end of the world typically isn't self-fulfilling.

 

[merztrumpet]

The Mayan calender says the world ends in 2012; that's where ShadowRun got the idea.

It never really said 2012 would be the end of the world. Numerically, it's the end of several major cycles of creation but these cycles have ended before. It's just as much a 'beginning' as it is an 'end'. AFAIK, time isn't quite linear according to Mayan calculations.

 

[Reese]

Another vote for sun burnout.