10 Apocalypse Theories

[16hockjo]

10.
Impending Disaster of Planet X

This one started life as an archaeological find. A mysterious clay tablet was found in the Middle East years ago, made by the Sumerians (earliest inhabitants of middle east). Upon this tablet was a depiction of something that looked like our solar system; all the planets were there, and all of them were rotating around the sun. But there were 11 celestial bodies. Now we know there are only 9 planets. Maybe one of them was our moon or the recently discovered mini-planet Sedna? But where did the 11th come from? At the same time astronomers were perplexed by a strange force in the outer solar system. It seemed as though the outer planets were being pulled out of their orbit. Something massive must be out there. These combined findings led to the theory of the mysterious planet X.

Planet X is predicted to be 100s of time larger than Earth and to have a massive orbit of about 3,600 years. When it comes through the inner solar system it could cause cataclysmic disaster upon our planet. It is so massive that it could turn our poles upside down, slow down the earth’s rotation or even stop it. If it gets close enough it could even peel the earth’s crust off, or push us into the sun. All bad scenarios.

[InSiGhTfUl]

Why would it travel into the inner solar system?

[Dr Frook]

10.
Impending Disaster of Planet X


Planet X is predicted to be 100s of time larger than Earth and to have a massive orbit of about 3,600 years. When it comes through the inner solar system it could cause cataclysmic disaster upon our planet. It is so massive that it could turn our poles upside down, slow down the earth’s rotation or even stop it. If it gets close enough it could even peel the earth’s crust off, or push us into the sun. All bad scenarios.

100's of time larger? man, that would be huge (much... much... MUCH bigger than the sun) and probably very easily spotted, even with the 3600 year orbit. If it's soooooo big it would be a star itself.

[16hockjo]

10.
Impending Disaster of Planet X


Planet X is predicted to be 100s of time larger than Earth and to have a massive orbit of about 3,600 years. When it comes through the inner solar system it could cause cataclysmic disaster upon our planet. It is so massive that it could turn our poles upside down, slow down the earth’s rotation or even stop it. If it gets close enough it could even peel the earth’s crust off, or push us into the sun. All bad scenarios.

100's of time larger? man, that would be huge (much... much... MUCH bigger than the sun) and probably very easily spotted, even with the 3600 year orbit. If it's soooooo big it would be a star itself.

the sun is truly thousands of times bigger than the earth, and planet x is only slightly visible In the sky due to it's size.

[Zados]

the sun is truly thousands of times bigger than the earth, and planet x is only slightly visible In the sky due to it's size.

depends on what you measure ...

earthern belt
12756 km = 7926 miles

sun belt
1392000 km = 864 950 miles

the sun is about 109 times bigger than earth

earthern mass
5.974.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 kg = 11.948.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 lbs

sun mass
1.989.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 kg = 3.978.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 lbs

the sun is about 332.943 times bigger than the earth

[16hockjo]

the sun is truly thousands of times bigger than the earth, and planet x is only slightly visible In the sky due to it's size.

depends on what you measure ...

earthern belt
12756 km = 7926 miles

sun belt
1392000 km = 864 950 miles

the sun is about 109 times bigger than earth

earthern mass
5.974.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 kg = 11.948.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 lbs

sun mass
1.989.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 kg = 3.978.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 lbs

the sun is about 332.943 times bigger than the earth

Im Bad At Math

[16hockjo]

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.

[Dr Frook]

yep, the runaway greenhouse effect is the one that concerns me the most... hope I'm worrying about nothing...

[ghost 9]

with the amount of cars on our planet its most likly going to end of global warming than planet x.

[16hockjo]

8
Fine Tuning of the Universe

Is the world we live in and perceive real? Like the movie ‘The Matrix’ are we just a simulation? Perhaps we’re being played out by a superior alien race; watching us on a T.V. or controlling us with a computer. One of the best pieces of evidence for this theory is the Universal Fine Tuning factor. The fact that the universe is so precisely tuned to support life is a huge astronomical coincidence. I don’t just mean animal or plant life; I mean all life essentially-stars, black holes, galaxies, even atoms and particles. The entire universe seems to be fine tuned.

A British Cosmologist, Fred Hoyle, was the first to realize the implications of this ‘coincidence’. You see there is a very peculiar thing about the fundamental constants (Atomic masses, the speed of light and all that), in that if they were slightly different, everything wouldn’t exist. Take the strong force inside atomic nuclei. If the force were just slightly stronger, it would boost up the burning of stars so much that they would explode only seconds after they were formed. We wouldn’t have a sun – or even a planet. If on the other hand the force were a tad weaker, it would be too weak to hold together elements like the heavy hydrogen isotope deuterium. Stars wouldn’t light up, and we wouldn’t be here either. And the same goes for everything else. Slightly more or less of any constant and it won’t work. So the question is, why are all the fundamental constants tuned to support the universe?