How will the planet end?

[ignoramus]

I like this one!
Looking forward to it but fear I will be decrepit and too mentally deteriorated to appreciate the disaster to its fullest!

Thursday 9/11/2040 has inspired a broad range of researchers and publicists to preach doom and destruction. And no wonder. In the early morning hours of this particular Thursday, a rare cosmological event will take place. All visible planets -- Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus -- will align with both the Sun and the Moon. They will be in an exact row.

You won't be able to see much of it, since the brightness of the Sun will make the view on everything else impossible. But according to the doomsayers, we will definitely notice something. Just picture this: there's SEVEN huge objects in the sky, tugging at our tiny planet with their combined gravities. This will cause the Earth's axis to tilt, moving Middle Africa to the North Pole and the icy Antarctic to the equator.

It will be quite a disaster. Rapidly, the ice caps of the poles will melt, causing massive floods and huge tsunamis all over the world. Millions will drown, entire continents will be flooded. Not to mention the faith of those poor Africans and Latin Americans, who will suddenly find themselves living on one of the poles!

And that's just the beginning. The tidal forces of the seven heavenly bodies combined will trigger earthquakes bigger than we've ever had. Also, there will be volcanoes erupting everywhere. If you don't drown, chances are you're crushed by a collapsing building or covered in lava. Well, if that isn't what you call `the end of the world', what is?