I'd better start by defining what I mean with the phrase “the end of the world”, since “the end” can take several forms.
First, although the time required to complete a world event: the real end of the world scenario will be a short-term event lasting from a few seconds (say, a gamma-ray burst) to several months (say, a pandemic, all because of a nuclear war, a super-volcano ). I don’t speak many decades to centuries here due to global warming and rising sea levels or the coming of the next ice age.
End of the World = destruction of the planet Earth (scenarios “When worlds collide”). That is, Planet Earth and, obviously, everything and everyone else descends along the bulgur.
End of the World = the destruction of all life on planet Earth - the barren Earth. Planet Earth survives to a greater or lesser extent, but nothing biological survives.
End of the World = elimination of all human beings on planet Earth (“on the beach” scenarios). Planet Earth and most life forms, excluding humans, survive. Now the survivors can be only bacteria, cockroaches and rats, but all that matters here is that 100% of all members of the human race are no longer. Welcome to the planet Earth: zero people.
End of the World = radical changes in the status quo of human beings on planet Earth. There is a great chance of stopping humanity, but ultimately this is not enough to erase all of us from the floor.
I think that for the majority of the population "the end of the world" means the death of most people, excluding them, of course. In other words, it is akin to "radical changes in the status quo of man on planet Earth." These are “Armageddon”, “Apocalypse”, “End of Days”, “Second Coming”, “Delight” or, devoid of any religious connotation, some kind of nuclear war, a global pandemic, a combination of nasty things caused by global warming, an asteroid impact, which is cataclysmic, but not too cataclysmatic, will say that it destroys 99.9% of humanity - it still leaves about six million strange bodies and turfs inhabiting the globe. Hell, with so many survivors combined with the “be fruitful and multiple” scenario, Planet Earth will again be overpopulated with people rather quickly clever. I mean, we lost millions in World War II, but still the population has increased.
The end of the world in art: a whole book can be written (and probably was) at the end of the world theme in cinema and literature, especially in science fiction over the past 150 years or so. If someone can imagine the end of the world in one way or another, he turns into a film or a series or a novel or story, sometimes with which sometimes without a happy ending. The end of the world theme in art may not be as popular as romantic fantasy or crime, or even westerns, but it still forms a fairly solid subgenic block of a general disaster or romance movie.
The end of the world in mythology / religion: there is no permanent end of the world in mythology (or religion). There is always a rebirth, whether it is Christian Armageddon or Norse Ragnarok or in Hindu mythology in India or even in various cyclic Mesoamerican cosmologies.
Take the Christian version: “No, there is no dispute about biblical (high) stories that“ document ”some kind of internal disagreement between“ God ”and some entity that we call today“ Satan ”. If you believe in these biblical tales, the end result of this internal dispute, Armageddon, is in fact not disputed. There is a certain element here: “It’s not over yet, until it’s over, it’s not over yet, I’ll be back!” However, if you believe in the Bible and the Book of Revelation, then you understand that Armageddon should have taken place more than 1900 years ago, at least according to Jesus Christ. He said that the final battle between good (“God”) and evil (“Satan”) —I'm sure he was biased in deciding who is what — will happen during one or two of his statements. So, if it happened, then it happened from the planet and out of human sight - the real life of Star Wars. But if this has not happened yet, assuming that “God” and “Satan” are truly true aliens, and not mythological entities, then it probably will never happen. I mean, you can hold onto a fight for so long. Maybe they kissed and made up, or ...
If God or His scribes wished to articulate ideas and events and a chronology central to the “doomsday”, Revelation, Armageddon, the Rapture, the Second Coming, etc. He or they would fail — miserably. Any dozen biblical scholars will give a dozen different interpretations of the “end of days”, from literal to metamorphic. The Book of Revelations appeared to have been intended for the people of that era; that it was intended for generations far from those times, apparently, not in the way that biblical scholars say. If you don’t become clear about your point, well, what’s the point? How many hundreds and hundreds of times have Biblical scholars prophesied the end of the world, or the end of days, or Armageddon, or the Second Coming, or the Final Judgment (take your choice of appropriate phrases) based on bible verses? Well, we are still here! We are indeed still here, therefore, so much for the reliability of the Bible, or the word of God, and / or the competence of so-called biblical experts. So, the next time some biblical fundamentalist tells you that “the end is near,” take a message with a word-for-word grain of salt and don't lose a dream over it!
Now the biblical tale of the global flood is actually global! Cultures from around the world tell similar stories about the biblical flood. The argument is that therefore history must be true, since these different cultures had nothing to do with each other. My answer to this is bullish fertilizer! The end of the world of fairy tales or myths, the concept of Armageddon, punishing the evil with complete disaster, was just as common and popular as it is now. We all love a good “doomsday” story that has a moral affection. Alas, the choice or mechanisms available for the mentioned ends of world histories were then very limited. They did not know about supernova or gamma-ray bursts, massive solar flares or nuclear war, as well as holocaust or killer asteroids that occurred in Planet Earth, etc.,. All they had to work with was everyday varieties. routine parts of natural events and sending them everyday life. In fact, many fabulous spinners may not have been familiar with, say, volcanoes, and although most relatively strong weather events, such as tornadoes, can be devastating, they are not destructive enough to destroy the wicked people who inhabit a wide area. However, everyone would experience rain, heavy rain, even torrential rains speak from hurricanes, etc., which led to a minor flood or, as they say, witnesses of storm surges from the sea that flooded the earth, and / or were witnesses of rivers , ponds and lakes crowded. There is not much imagination to cut out secondary real events, hiding behind the story of a story about the mega-scale of natural disasters. If it rains heavily for one day, and there are some local floods, up to 40 days before the ante. It’s hard to imagine that any storyteller from 5000 years ago came up with any other end of the world script!
One point to the end of the world, mega-catastrophes - is that at least one survivor to tell a story! I am going to in this case, including the survivors, such as Noah and the genus.
I read another explanation for ubiquitous stories about floods. If I remember correctly, Freud's student came up with the idea that the storytellers / inventors of flood stories got the idea from dreams in a dream. And they dreamed of a dream because they slept with relatively full blisters. Personally, I think this is a weak explanation!
Then there is the Scandinavian Ragnarok. The gods and giants fight him, and the gods come in second place. But there are survivors who start all over again. This was reflected in the conclusion of Richard Wagner in his epic four-connected operatic series “Der Ring Des Nibelungen”. The last opera “Gotterdammerung” (“Twilight of the Gods”) ends with the destruction of the gods, but with a rebirth and a new beginning. The characters themselves, who started the whole ring cycle, are the same and only survivors at the end. Will history repeat?
The end of the world in science: how can I destroy you? Let me count the ways! Well, when counting opportunities, it could be an “explosion”, “whimper” or something in between.
The end of the world in science: astronomy: there is an obvious cosmic connection. I mean, the big universe is not so peaceful and peaceful there. We could get a big big amulet / comet. The star "nearby" can explode, drenching us with intense and deadly radiation. Even from a fairly long distance, the gamma-archer could fry us. Perhaps the almost invisible Black Hole could wander past a too-small bit too close and down the gravity hatch, where we are going. Closer to home, a super-ultra-one-on-billion solar storm can lead us to oblivion. After that, everything calms down.
“The end of the world in science: geology: the planet Earth can also be quite cruel, but nothing geological throwing at us can cause a 100% extermination is possible. Earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, tsunamis, can create general destructive chaos, but each of them is too local to have global significance - with the possible exception of a super-volcano. Higher volcanoes that have erupted and will erupt again can affect only a few hundred thousand up to maybe a million square miles directly in relation to lava, etc., But ash emissions can quickly penetrate and cross the entire atmosphere, blocking solar radiation. , causing global cooling and complete disruption of the food chain. Then, too, there are natural swings and carousels, which from time to time cause the Ice Age. Saving grace is that the transition from global normality to the global ice age takes thousands of years — enough time for people to adapt, even if they did not like it.
The end of the world in science: biology: many things can kill us - tigers and crocodiles and sharks and related animals, even invertebrates, such as some species of spiders and mollusks, octopuses and jellyfish, wasps and bee stings, etc. Tem no less, we threaten them more than us. But, these are not macro forms of life that are going to make us, these are microforms. We all fight again and again. Bacteria and viruses have their evil way with us or with our bodies. Ultimately, we win every battle against them, except the last battle. They always win the war. In the end, they kill us and add insult to wounds, celebrate our remains! The story is not devoid of specific studies of people by mass (pandemics and epidemics), which were killed by these microballs. There is nothing in the cards to ensure that the story does not happen again. It is possible that bacteria and / or viruses, without worrying about anything for our high IQ and medical technologies, will not destroy us.
The end of the world in science: astrobiology: then there is an old chestnut alien invasion! The fact that an alien (from space) can destroy us may depend on whether the alien was or was not reasonable. If not reasonable disputes from space (panspermia) landed on Earth, well, this is an alien invasion never. If the controversy we liked was our biochemistry, then the "alien" diseases of smallpox, etc., had a great influence on the local Mesoamericans, who were faced with European contact. Of course, these European invaders were not entirely friendly, like macro creatures. In a similar, but extraterrestrial context, Earth attracted the attention of alien invaders almost twice in films, television shows, novels and short stories. Most guys and girls would love to be as popular as Planet Earth for aliens! However, the invasion of extraterrestrial intelligence is unlikely. This will be a big waste of time and effort for a relatively small gain. I mean, if you are a resident of the Big Apple, why would you, invade Paris for a loaf of bread, when the necessary ingredients for the bakery are available at your local store. What can we do to prevent aliens from finding much closer to home, be it gold or water? No, the least likely end of the world scenario is an alien invasion - at least by clever aliens. And if the aliens would really like Planet Earth, they would not have to shoot with a laser shot or even be close and personal. All they need is to make some big asteroids. There is nothing we can do about it, and when the dust settles, the Planet Earth belongs to them.
The end of the world in science fiction. In addition to the above, various suggestions were made about possible ways and means by which the Earth could meet the end of the world, which has very little scientific certainty. Some argue that the alien invasion is one of those implausible. Here I mean several “crazy scientists” schemes, say, the creation of particles in accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider of mini-black holes, which will eat us from the inside. Or, in some way, scientists could accidentally, through experiments on weather modification, make global storms that last for several months, or cause geological faults that could split the world in two or more parts. Then there are nuclear bombs that can send a planet out of orbit, heading either to the Sun or into the interstellar space. Then there is the creation of artificial intelligences (robots and related) that ultimately take on the Top Dog life form. Then there are all these exotic super weapons, such as neutron bombs or weapons invented with techno-chatter names that sound impressive, but mean absolutely nothing. Then there are such strange scenarios when one wakes up to find himself as the last person on Earth for no apparent reason (although there are very few others, otherwise you are rather thin on the ground), although sometimes the plague becomes 99.99% of people in zombies, and you are an ordinary lonely normal person fighting a crowd.
The end of the world in social science fiction: then there is a general worldwide breakdown of society, government, financial institutions, law and order for some real logical reason (unlike society in the post-nuclear WWIII scenario). But perhaps a super global financial crisis, a BIG DEPRESSION that makes the Great Depression look like good times, or we finally exhaust our oil and gas reserves, could be a potential trigger. However, even in a society of complete chaos, as evidenced by many such societies, which were subjected to such upheavals, there were many survivors.
End of the World through Terrorism: Unlike hostilities on the part of all countries and related governments, terrorists and terrorism are small-scale events that are hardly global in nature. But it would be wrong to dismiss the terrorists, because they do not have the end of the global potential.
There is only one plausible way IMHO, that terrorists can lead to the end of the world. For details, see “The End of the World: John’s Best Screenplay.”
* The terrorist bombings of suicide bombers - too local; There is no end to the world path.
* Terrorist chemical attacks - too local; There is no end to the global scenario.
* Terrorist nuclear weapons and their associated ones are contrary, but in general it would in no way be the final conclusion of a world event.
* Terrorist biological war - where there is a will, there is a way.
The end of the world in prophecy: all that really needs to be said about the end of the world in prophecy - religious-themed or other - is that by the end of the world prophets there was a 100% failure rate, despite literally thousands of such forecasts over thousands of years. Hardly a week goes by without some predictor, who predicts not only that the end laughs, but also gives exact dates, even times. So, please distribute to all of you, who have full confidence that the next end of the world forecast will bear fruit on, say, May 21, 2011 or December 21, 2012, later at the present time at the top of the forecasts. Thought so!
There are several drawbacks to the end of the world prophecy. This is not the same harmless entertainment, as consultation with the daily horoscope in the newspaper. Во-первых, есть разочарование, травма, разочарование, унижение и т. Д., Которые испытывают истинные верующие, когда их идиотизм раскрывается для всего мира. Часто бывает странное поведение истинных верующих до того - распад семейных единиц, раздача всех мирских товаров и вещей, присоединение к культам судьбы конца света, иногда к мелодиям ритуальных самоубийств.
Тогда есть недостаток нравственных, этических, правовых ограничений и порядка - я имею в виду, если бы вы действительно хотели в жизни жить хорошей жизнью, лучшие продукты, лучшие вина, самые дорогие курорты, лучшие женщины-деньги могут купить , все фантастические мечты о великом немытом, и вы по-настоящему верили, что у вас есть только неделя, чтобы пройти до конца, хорошо, что этот банк идет по дороге, просто попрошайничать, чтобы его ограбили, и какой-то заносчивый маленький кассир, который просил дополнительную дыру в ее голове прямо между глазами - как она осмелится отбросить тебя на свидание - ну почему бы и нет? Вы все равно мертвы через неделю, так что ничего страшного нет?
Теперь экстраполируйте это до истинного верующего, который действительно занимает какое-то высокое положение реальной власти. Что делать, если вы можете манипулировать внешней политикой таким образом, чтобы обеспечить или продвинуть Армагеддон? Или, если мир все равно закончится завтра, и вы верите, что со всем вашим сердцем и душой это будет так, хорошо, вы также можете нажать кнопку ядра сейчас. Лидер вашей ненавистной иностранной власти смеется над вашей глупостью, поэтому вы захотите убедиться, что это конец для них тоже!
Конец света: самый лучший сценарий Джона: Хорошо, вот мое лучшее предсказание догадки о нашей кончине. Во-первых, это будет на руку нашим товарищам. Теперь вам придется признать, что там есть все виды злых типов. К счастью, большинству не хватает настоящих кишок и финансов, чтобы нанести нам какую-то реальную грязь. Тем не менее, существует ряд высокомотивированных, высокообразованных, хорошо финансируемых «сумасшедших ученых» типов террористов. Как отмечалось выше, мало что можно сделать с бомбами, даже с ядерными бомбами, или с взрывчатыми веществами или химическими веществами, по крайней мере, с точки зрения уничтожения людей с лица Земли. Но в конечном итоге в террористическом оружии - смиренные бактерии или вирус, который был генетически или биоинженеристом, чтобы вызвать глобальную пандемию, может быть неприятной угрозой. Это не Манхэттенский проект, предназначенный для биоинженерии вирусов и бактерий. Хорошо оборудованная сложная лаборатория, возможно, размер обычного дома. Несколько человек, хорошо знакомых с методами генной инженерии микроорганизмов, в сочетании с такой информацией, уже доступной в научной литературе, легко доступны через Интернет, у которых есть какая-то супер-ультра-ненависть к человечеству, и которые не заботятся о том, что (в соответствии с террористами-смертниками) может возникнуть соблазн вызвать глобальную пандемию, уничтожить человечество раз и навсегда из существования. Я имею в виду их девиз: «Убей их всех, Бог разобрался в беспорядке». Если люди готовы умереть, чтобы убить сравнительно немного других, например, сказать, угонщики самолетов 9/11 или ваши бомбардировщики смертников, то я могу легко представить, что некоторые люди захотят если бы это означало брать с собой остальную часть мира - какое наследие, даже если некому было читать некролог. Теперь можно было бы уничтожить с помощью сельскохозяйственной чумы все продовольственные культуры, но на самом деле легче ориентировать только один вид (т. Е. Людей), чем многие десятки.
Идеальным биологическим оружием могут быть некоторые бактерии или вирус, у которых был период инкубации, скажем, 60 часов, что дает ему много времени в этот век реактивного путешествия, чтобы распространиться по всему земному шару, прежде чем кто-нибудь умнее, что есть проблемы с пивом; у микроба было бы легкое средство передачи от человека к человеку, вероятно, в воздухе, поэтому фактический контакт человека с человеком не был бы необходим; и самое важное это было бы как можно ближе к 100% смертельному исходу. Я полагаю, что независимо от того, что некоторые из них всегда будут иметь какой-то естественный иммунитет, поэтому желание полного аннигиляции может быть растянуто. Может быть, может и нет.
Конец света для Абсолютного Определенного: теперь, чтобы закончить на мрачной ноте, давайте вернемся к научным пророчествам. Наш мир закончится! Это на 100% точно! По крайней мере, это закончится, когда закончится жизнь нашей родительской звезды, Солнца. Так же, как ваш автомобиль имеет ограниченный запас топлива в своем бензобаке, так и наше Солнце имеет ограниченный запас топлива, который сохраняет его навсегда. Когда Солнце истощает свое топливо, хорошо, вы можете поцеловать жизнь на планете Земля до свидания. Однако, по крайней мере, я пугаю вас, теряя спокойный сон, это еще примерно пять миллиардов лет в будущем, или так диктуется современное астрономическое пророчество. Даже если это не на 10%, хорошо, что все еще дает вам много времени, чтобы наслаждаться хорошей жизнью, включая хороший ночной сон.
