10 Apocalypse Theories

[Hitokiri]

just bread from grain?
My goodness hock...pasta, beer, whiskey, biofuel,....no more hunger...
Just one problem, we'ld all be sleeping in a grain field.

[16hockjo]

just bread from grain?
My goodness hock...pasta, beer, whiskey, biofuel,....no more hunger...
Just one problem, we'ld all be sleeping in a grain field.

Guess I should've thought of that

[16hockjo]

1. Grey Goo Hypothesis

This is my favorite scenario, because its utterly terrifying. As technology progresses it gets smaller and smaller. Pretty soon we are going to enter the realms of Nano technology. In a simple way we are already there. IBM for instance placed single atoms to spell out the IBM logo. For this scenario we have to go a little bit into the future, not long, say 10 years. Nanobots are what I’m talking about. They will be microscopic robots designed to do all sorts of tasks, mostly in the medical field where they can seek out and eradicate bacterial infections, repair tissue damage, mend blood vessels. Lots of things that would be very helpful to everyone. They will be able to rearrange single atoms and for instance, make water out of sand. They will be able to take carbon atoms and turn them in diamonds. They will pick up raw materials and rearrange them into what they need. Well, obviously they will be extremely difficult to make, being microscopic and everything. And herein lies the problem. Scientists realize the only way to make them would be to use the Nanobots themselves. To make them self replicating. So each one is a microscopic Nanobot factory.

Here’s the scary bit. What would happen if just one of them were accidentally thrown away? Well it would pretty much go around changing atoms into robots. Then those robots would make more, and more, and more, at an exponential rate until the horror has unfolded. Scientists believe within 72 hours every single atom on earth will be turned into a Nanobot. All buildings, cars, plants, rocks, the water, animals and yes, even us humans… are now Nanobots. There it is, an endless sea of grey goo. And if ever some extra terrestrial were to land on the planet, then they too would be turned into Nanobots. What’s even more scary is that scientist are really working on creating Nanobots and are very close to achieving it. And so ends our Apocalypse list

[The Guy]

So we are pretty much screwed?

[Dr Frook]

So we are pretty much screwed?

yay! The end is nigh!

[16hockjo]

Now That The List iS Over, Feel Free To Add Your Own Doomsday Theories

[Lamb]

1. Grey Goo Hypothesis

This is my favorite scenario, because its utterly terrifying. As technology progresses it gets smaller and smaller. Pretty soon we are going to enter the realms of Nano technology. In a simple way we are already there. IBM for instance placed single atoms to spell out the IBM logo. For this scenario we have to go a little bit into the future, not long, say 10 years. Nanobots are what I’m talking about. They will be microscopic robots designed to do all sorts of tasks, mostly in the medical field where they can seek out and eradicate bacterial infections, repair tissue damage, mend blood vessels. Lots of things that would be very helpful to everyone. They will be able to rearrange single atoms and for instance, make water out of sand. They will be able to take carbon atoms and turn them in diamonds. They will pick up raw materials and rearrange them into what they need. Well, obviously they will be extremely difficult to make, being microscopic and everything. And herein lies the problem. Scientists realize the only way to make them would be to use the Nanobots themselves. To make them self replicating. So each one is a microscopic Nanobot factory.

Here’s the scary bit. What would happen if just one of them were accidentally thrown away? Well it would pretty much go around changing atoms into robots. Then those robots would make more, and more, and more, at an exponential rate until the horror has unfolded. Scientists believe within 72 hours every single atom on earth will be turned into a Nanobot. All buildings, cars, plants, rocks, the water, animals and yes, even us humans… are now Nanobots. There it is, an endless sea of grey goo. And if ever some extra terrestrial were to land on the planet, then they too would be turned into Nanobots. What’s even more scary is that scientist are really working on creating Nanobots and are very close to achieving it. And so ends our Apocalypse list

Ugh that just feels nasty...Your Skin crawling with nano bots and expandending ugh...

[TheKingsHills]

9.
Runaway Greenhouse Effect

Here is one we’re heading straight for right now. In a few decades our climate may just go completely mental. Temperatures might rise rapidly, melting the ice caps, turning our planet’s climate into something comparable to that of Venus’. We all know about global warming; for the past 10 years you haven’t been able to open a newspaper without reading something about it. But The Runaway Greenhouse Effect is basically what will happen if we reach that point of no return. As temperatures rise water evaporates, which makes the atmosphere thicker, which in turn traps in more heat, which causes more water to evaporate – a chain reaction. It will really become similar to Venus’ atmosphere, because that is exactly what is happening there. The atmosphere is so thick that solar heat never escapes so it just keeps getting hotter. And there is nothing to stop it. Just like there will be nothing stop it here on Earth.

The threshold could happen as soon as 2015. The polar ice caps hold trillions of tons of C02, trapped in tiny bubbles of ancient air. If this is released then it could literally break the atmosphere. It could cause the initial rapid temperature rise and start the water vapor reaction. We could possibly be heading for a world where tin and lead would melt instantly in our atmosphere. When all the water is trapped as an evaporate, it is too hot to support 99% of all life, and we humans can do nothing to stop it.

your so called green house effect is a natural occurence, it will hardly be the end of the world. if a thick atmosphere would mean the end of the world then we wouldnt have gotten past the dinosaur era, the atmosphere back then was MUCH denser than it is now

[16hockjo]

your so called green house effect is a natural occurence, it will hardly be the end of the world. if a thick atmosphere would mean the end of the world then we wouldnt have gotten past the dinosaur era, the atmosphere back then was MUCH denser than it is now

Let me ask you this. Where are the dinosaurs?

[Lamb]

your so called green house effect is a natural occurence, it will hardly be the end of the world. if a thick atmosphere would mean the end of the world then we wouldnt have gotten past the dinosaur era, the atmosphere back then was MUCH denser than it is now

Let me ask you this. Where are the dinosaurs?

Adding on to that...The Atmosphere being Dense means that no Light passes through...IF that were to happen we would have another ice age...and what your talking about grim is just some thing people think about as being that the solar system is heating up and we have no explanation for it as it just so called being "natural occurence".