World Isn't Ending!

[PurpleStyle]

A billion or so years from now

3.8, actually.

is actually sorta a dire prediction for OUR ENTIRE GALAXY and EVERYTHING IN IT (sentient or otherwise). Apparently galaxies collide with one another in this little plane of existence we call the Universe (resulting in possibly INCALCULABLE LOSS OF LIFE). To make a long story short, the galaxy Andromeda will slam into our precious milky way in roughly less than a billion years or so.

lol

The galaxies aren't going to "collide" per se. They will pass through, disrupt each other and merge. The space between stars is so vast that it's incredibly unlikely that any of them will even come close to each other. So; no possible INCALCULABLE LOSS OF LIFE!!1!11!!!1!

What we should be more "concerned" about is the sun's gradual heating, which will reach an average surface temperature twice what it is now, in let's say less than 1~ billion years. This will lead to the oceans evaporating, probably leading to Earth becoming a Venus-like planet.

I hate to start a religious debate, but when the subject of the end of the world comes up, am I the only one who's mind goes to the bible, and how it says no one will know when the second coming will be besides God? Just sayin'

Yeah, it looks that way. The bible doesn't really give us any information that leads to any accurate observations or predictions of the universe, so I see no reason to lend it any credibility in the "end of the world" department. No debate necessary.

A little observation and math on the other hand, will get you pretty close. 😉

 

[Tom Tickle]

A billion years doesn't cut it for all the nutcases going to france to experience the alien rapture or whatever it is. I think they'll be disappointed, just as they were the last time the apocalypse was predicted and all the other times over the last 1,400 years, since Europe was a largely Christian continent... 'revelation is coming' they keep saying, but that's what the vagrant who lives under the bandstand in the park says about the time-travelling bus made of interlinked gibbons; 'it'll be here.... just you doubters wait and see'.

Hindu, Germanic and certain well known american Indian cultures also have documented end of the world predictions

Nope. the hindu one has no real ending, and involves times scales in the trillions of years. Which Germanic one are we talking about? The Mayan calender only tells of the end of a Bakh'tun, not the end of the world. No scholar of Mayan culture has ever said the Mayans thought the world would end, it's just been hijacked by a few well-placed and enterprising cranks and sold to a listless western society after having exhausted our own myths, just like the planet Nibiru stuff came about in 1994 from a 'contactee', but has been mixed in with the earlier Sitchin-Velikovsky nonsense. People are tired of the Bible, and find science too hard or cold, so they flock to the von Danikens, Sitchins and Hubbards to weave them a new 'world narrative', while throwing in a few UFOs and free energy conspiracies to cut the scientific method off at the pass - don't bother with science when it is tool of the illuminati/ Lizard folk. How do they know? In a method similar to religious 'revealed' knowledge, sometimes with the aid of Mescaline and/or psilocybin and such lucid messages as this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtC-iN_PFlM (a difficult piece, but a worthwhile choice for the First Dance at any wedding).
Psychologically (or psychiatrically/psychopathologically) speaking, It's pretty intriguing, and generally entertaining.

 

[Tom Tickle]

I's prefer my apocalypse to be undermined by the Dark Lord's camp sense of fun, as he rises for the end times to the infernal sound of these tortured souls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9U-wb_bVGk

 

[Breygon]

so, no end o/t world? good
I had plans

 

[xodlirv1]

Maybe we misread the calendar, and what they were really predicting in 2012 was not the end of the world, but the beginning of the Mitt Romey Presidency...which would be much worse.