• Question: How do you think the world as we know it will end?

    Asked by to Anna, Elaine, Fiona, Kevin, Darren on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Zhiming Darren Tan answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Catastrophically.

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      Elaine Cloutman-Green answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I think probably due to a new disease. Flu in 1918 wiped out 1/3 of the worlds population and that was without all of the travel connections we have now. Most new virulent infections have shown that they could get around the world in as little as 8 hours (depending on the incubation period). We take a while to work out how to treat people or even develop a new test to work out what is going on. So if the right infection happened at the right time it would take us a long time to deal with it. I don’t think it would necessarily finish off man kind but it would end the world as we know it.

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      Anna Bramwell-Dicks answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Serious answer: like Elaine says, most likely to be an infection or disease.

      Joke answer: I suspect that one day the ants may unite and rise up against us all.

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      Kevin O'Dell answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      I think Darren is on the right track. Catastrophically sounds about right to me. Something very big crashing into our planet has the capacity to either destroy the earth or (as happenned around 65 million years ago) kill most of the plants and animals on the planet.

      Disease could end the world as we know in that a huge proportion of people could be wiped out, but there are nearly always survivors from epidemics, so it would be a very different world but some of us would probably still be here.

      Unfortunately, I also wouldn’t entirely exclude the possibility of humans doing something so utterly stupid that wipes out most of the humans on the planet, though again it’s likely thet’ll be some survivors.

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      Fiona McLean answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      I think humans are the most likely cause of the world ending. With CO2 emissions and the amount of litter we produce not slowing down, global warming isn’t something that’s going to go away. You only need to look on the news to see how weird and unpredictable the weather is! However I do think humans are very good at surviving. And if humans don’t survive then seagulls will cause those things are HUGE and fearless (this maybe just in Aberdeen-I think they’ve mutated up here!).

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