5 Ways the planet Could End
when it was first announced the
relativistic heavy ion collider was
considered one of the marvels of
modern
science the massive machine is used
by
experienced researchers to analyze
ions
by smashing them into each other
over
and over again in an attempt to
recreate
a model of the Big Bang and study
the
effects of life just moments after
but
the scientific community was and
many
still are in an uproar over the
device
terrified that it could backfire if
used
improperly and create a man-made
black
hole that would collapse the planet
and
drain it of all life while it
obviously
hasn't happened yet it is still
spurned
a number of theories as to how it
could
be a more dangerous threat to
mankind
than global warming or any other
looming
natural disaster volcanoes have
fascinated mankind for as long as
there
has been written documentation of
our
earliest existence but with their
massive size and immense power it's
unsurprising that a volcano could
be
what leads to the end of the world
super
volcanoes are volcanoes with the
propulsive power of up to 1 million
times that of a regular volcano and
an
eruption could lead to a blackout
over
the entire world it's even possible
that
one of these super volcano
eruptions is
responsible for whittling down the
human
race in its early stages and the
possibility of an upcoming eruption
isn't exactly off the table there
are
four super volcanoes in the United
States alone and the one sitting in
Yellowstone National Park has been
showing signs of build over the
past
decade while there's no scientific
way
to estimate when a volcano will
erupt
scientists have taken note of the
super
volcanoes recent movement and think
some
sort of eruption whether using the
full
extent of the volcano's power or
not
could take place within the next 30
to
50 years
in March of 2016
Britain's Economist Intelligence
Unit
famous for categorizing the most
plausible global risks involving
worldwide economies and political
parties found that the possibility
of
Donald Trump becoming the President
of
the United States could essentially
lead
to an economic downturn that would
eventually end the world
reports cites that Trump's erratic
temperament self-serving business
sense
and general lack of leadership
skills
would embellish terrorist factions
and
jihadists prompting radical attacks
all
over the world in turn Trump's
handling
of the economy would cut the United
States off multiple trade
agreements
with other nations and stonewalled
its
citizens from the outside world
with the
looming possibility of nuclear war
trump
was also deemed the most
untrustworthy
presidential candidate in regards
to
having access codes to the United
States
massive storage of nuclear weapons
with
other world leaders constantly
coming
out against the idea of President
Trump
leading the world's greatest
superpower
we should probably be more fearful
of
the possibility of his election
than
amused while the future predicted
in the
Terminator movies is a violent one
spurned on by humanity's misuse of
Technology and experimentation the
reality of how devices could bring
an
end to mankind is much more
peaceful and
slightly more disturbing futurist
Ray
Kurzweil has predicted what he
calls the
great singularity which describes a
time
in the very near future in which
humans
become entirely integrated with
technology and more specifically
the
Internet as we take further steps
into
the realms of virtual reality human
beings are more and more driven to
the
virtual world filled with infinite
possibilities and vast amounts of
information it is not a wild
accusation
to say that soon people will be
attempting to live their existences
entirely on the web fusing their
mentalities into a line of data
that
could feasibly live forever so
while it
isn't an asteroid striking the planet
or
a plague causing mass casualties it
could be our innate desire to know
more
and live forever that causes us to
leave
our humanity behind the scariest
detail
of the fairy Kurzweil predicts we
could
be at that point by 2045 while there
is
no way to fully realize the
tangible
possibilities of the next entry it
is
worth discussing due to the immense
rise
in public health documents over the
past
century mental health experts have
shown
a massive spike in mental illness
all
over the planet while much of this
can
be attributed to growing
populations and
lack of proper insight in previous
centuries many psychologists still
deemed the rise to be much sharper
than
it should be many theories have
persisted that a world popular
in which the mentally ill
supersedes
that of those who are not mentally
ill
could lead to catastrophic effects
regarding the economic and
political
states of the world and while
hyperbole
is often dangerous some psychologists
have gone on record saying they
fear the
future due to what they call
possible
mass insanity and of course if that
doesn't frighten you there's always
the
possibilities of an impending alien
attack falling asteroid global
warming
and nuclear warfare but there are
so
many ways the world could end but
hasn't
yet that it's always worth
considering
that tomorrow will very likely
always be
there for you unless you're too old
to
care if it isn't