I'm afraid we will have then invented something even more terrifying

Richard Simmons? :eek:

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Dude, I'm from the Netherlands.
I didn't know who Richard Simmons was until you made me google.
How could you! ;D.

Judgement day. God will destroy what he created.

I've always been afraid it would be nuclear war. I think it's horrible and terrifying that people are in control of devices which can each wipe out tens of thousands of people just like that.

I'm afraid that one day, someone's going to launch a nuclear attack, then the retaliation (out of fear or whatever else) is going to be more nuclear attacks. Then we're all going to blow each other up.

Atheist in the house represent!

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I notice so far all the answers have been about humanity going extinct, not the world ending.

As far as the world ending I guess I'll probably go with the prevailing wisdom that billions of years from now the sun will begin to expand into a red giant, eventual reaching a size which engulfs the earth. This will be long after humanity has gone extinct though.

I'm no astrophycicist - not even sure I spelled that right - but I once read that as stars reach the end of their lifecycles and become black holes, they swallow all else matter in the universe, which is sort of predictable. You would think that might happen. However, this article also claimed that even the super-black holes of the distant future can't contain all their mass/energy and that minute stray particles will escape it. Over trillions and trillions of years, this radiation would escape into the true nothing and loosely form atoms greater than the size of the current universe (don't ask me), but these too would eventually disintegrate or disperse and the universe would eventually be a featureless, infinite void ..

My father believes that after something like this, events that lead to big bang(s) will recur. Perhaps he's right? Noone knows :)

So yeah, kind of missed that part of the first post, non?

I guess so. :o:

Still doesn't make much sense to me though. Why not call it the end of the human race or something, instead of referring to it as something it isn't?