http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7265608.stm
Well, maybe. Bloody great asteroid will just miss Earth in 2025 and may hit it in 2036.
Have a good 28 years, kids.

You British people are lucky; someone said it'll hit Mexico and mainly affect the Americas. But then again, maybe it'll hit Asia and the two billion people in China will unfortunately die.
But here's the pros
Heh. Looks like not lack of oil, nor starvation or global warming will kill us.

Note to self: check Wikipedia before posting news stories, even ones from the BBC. Looks like the end of the world is cancelled. Dammit.
Though if it did hit, casualties caused by the initial impact are likely irrelevant; an impact of that magnitude throws up so much dust and other assorted crap into the atmosphere you get massive, immediate global climate change.

Meh. I personally like the 2012 Mayan apocalypse better.

Tsk climate change. The wankers where I live dont give a fig. =(

Mwamba wrote: Meh. I personally like the 2012 Mayan apocalypse better.

You see, it's not quite an apocalypse. It's a transcendence to a higher level of consciousness.

Arthur wrote:

Mwamba wrote: Meh. I personally like the 2012 Mayan apocalypse better.

You see, it's not quite an apocalypse. It's a transcendence to a higher level of consciousness.

Boring. I want a proper apocalypse, now!

Arthur wrote:

Mwamba wrote: Meh. I personally like the 2012 Mayan apocalypse better.

You see, it's not quite an apocalypse. It's a transcendence to a higher level of consciousness.

i thought it was that the universe had been destroyed three times in the past... once when the men were all fish, once when it was all monkeys, once when it was all birds, and then man was created and it was supposed to end again like four hundred years later...

... wait, i think that was the aztecs. wow, all mesoamerican societies had a fatalistic cheery outlook on life, didn't they?

this reminds me of a mockumentary i watched called supervolcano. it was all about the volcano at yellowstone national park. if it erupted, people closeby would suffocate, die from rooves collapsing, or the ash becoming a concrete-like mixture that essentially drowns your lungs (and the people close by can look forward to nueetes ardentes, which are avalanches of hot gas and other 'pleasant' stuffs)...

living on the other side of the world, i thought i'd be safe, but apparently 1. it would trigger a worldwide nuclear winter, 2. the winds in that area would carry the ash/gases everywhere, poisoning water supplies/lots of fish, 3. the atmosphere wouldn't be clear for a very long time. but that depends on a lot of factors, ie volume of the caldera, how much is ejected, what type of eruption etc

Sentynel wrote:

Arthur wrote:

Mwamba wrote: Meh. I personally like the 2012 Mayan apocalypse better.

You see, it's not quite an apocalypse. It's a transcendence to a higher level of consciousness.

Boring. I want a proper apocalypse, now!

Yassir!

*Puts Megido on the DVD*

I heard somebody say that we're gonna die in 2020 because of the ozone hole. O.o

Then again, I'm not sure about that, but we are getting more UV radiations because the ozone hole's getting bigger now...

Not by 2020. More like in a hundred years. But that's still too soon...
Hopefully by then we will have colonized the Moon.

It is really unlikely to happen.
Your apocalypse date is in 2067 anyway.

The ozone hole is unlikely to kill us, especially not directly. We can cope with increased UV radiation - staying inside, better suncreams, etc. Not a problem. If it gets big enough it could start killing off animals, though, which could become a problem. Unlikely that it'll go that far though.

Yep, Darwin's theory of evolution...
Why is my death on 2067?

I meant it's unlikely that humanity will let the ozone destruction go that far. There's no way animals would evolve fast enough to keep up.

Hopefully they will.
And yes, I know it takes centuries for animals to evolve completely. But there are noticeable changes in some animals for current unknown reasons...

It takes millennia or massive, near-extinction events (which are more likely to just kill the species) to produce noticeable evolution along the lines of increased UV resistance. Sure, you can get noticeable changes in stuff like beak size or the proportions of different colour variations on a much shorter timescale, but UV resistance would need fundamental changes to the DNA copying/protection mechanisms and dealing with cancer cells.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_layer wrote:On August 2, 2003, scientists announced that the depletion of the ozone layer may be slowing down due to the international ban on CFCs.[3] Three satellites and three ground stations confirmed that the upper atmosphere ozone depletion rate has slowed down significantly during the past decade.

And developing countries continue to use substances contributing to this...

Man, its been a while. Anyways.

2012 all the way. And its not just the mayans. The Bible Code, Nostradamus Code, the chinese and even more have predicted stuff about 2012. And who are you to deny such things!

And if its not the end of the world, then well be aquatic monkeys who have reached a higher state of mind. I mean at the least!

My gods, several different myths can be interpreted, by those who are looking for evidence, as predicting the end of the world in 2012! It must be true!
Although they have a point. London hosting the Olympics is clearly going to bring about the end of the world as we know it.