The End!!

[John Adwan]

Can you say please what was the last research for end of the earth.

[Chuff]

You might need to expand your question a bit there mate

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if it is indeed a question.... ?

[Taqiyya Mockingbird]

Last i saw, at most we've got another 4.5 billion years before the sun exhausts all its fuel, if it lasts that long, to the best of our current understanding.

[Zen Badger]

I've been to the end of the earth, it's a shithole.

You can't even get a beer.

[Creed of Heresy]

I...

uh...

...What?

You might want to expand a bit on that question, there. Like, what specifically do you mean? Do you mean to ask what the most scientifically-accurate guess is for the end of the earth? Well, 4.5 billion years or so, though the earth won't be in the same state by that point anyway. Or did you mean, what was the last pseudoscientific claim for the earth ending? If THAT'S the case, supposedly we all die 12-21-2012 when an some kind of event of some kind will wipe out all of humanity.

That's ok, the Assassins are on it with the Apple of Eden and the Templars won't be able to stop them, since Assassin's Creed 3 is coming out in October and I'll be able to video-game-save-the-world. XD

[Ace Otana]

Can you say please what was the last research for end of the earth.

Ok, you're asking for the last research done regarding the end of our planet. Well seeing as religion does not do research (they do blind faith), and science does, so....
The end of the world can happen in a few ways, a huge asteroid impact, the sun giving off a powerful burst of energy, an older and far more advanced alien race who wants to drain all the resources and then mess with the planet's orbit of the sun and have it so that earth ends up heading into the sun (not a likely event ) and besides of the already mentioned, the earth well end in 4.5 billion years (give or take a year or two) as our sun dies. Mind you life would of come to an end long before this seeing as when the sun starts dying it'll become larger and hotter and will pretty much cook the planet. The atmosphere will be lost, everything will die and earth will look very much like Mars. But even this will be way way way in the future. We've got many millions of years to grow up and start colonising other planets long before that happens.

[Creed of Heresy]

And yet, Ace, most of the human race devotes its time to devotion for the sake of devoutly being devoted.

Extraterrestrial colonization. In our lifetimes? It's not as likely as you'd want. :<

[Ace Otana]

Extraterrestrial colonization. In our lifetimes? It's not as likely as you'd want. :<

Ha! Could you imagine mankind colonising other life capable planets in this age? We're far too fucking stupid. We're still in the bloody cave age compared to that level of advancement.

Right now, the very idea is total fantasy. We're just too dumb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35TbGjt-weA

[Chuff]

and as for religion's theories on the end of the world, well it's not happened in the last couple of thousand years so I'm pretty confident we'll be okay. Even got myself a loyalty card

[Angrboda]

Chuff is god. TAKE THAT! you skeptical atheists!

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"The prophecies of seers still resonate even today, influencing the lives of tens of millions of people worldwide. In the United States, William Miller declared that Doomsday would arrive on April 3, 1843. As news of his prophecy spread throughout the United States, a spectacular meteor shower by chance lit up the night sky in 1833, one of the largest of its kind, further enhancing the influence of Miller's prophecy. Tens of thousands of devout followers, called Millerites, awaited the coming of Armageddon.

When 1843 came and went without the arrival of the End of Days, the Millerite movement split into several large groups. Because of the huge following amassed by the Millerites, each of these splinter groups would have a major impact on religion even today. One large piece of the Millerite movement regrouped in 1863 and changed their name to the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, which today has about 14 million baptized members. Central to their belief is the imminent Second Coming of Christ.

Another splinter group of Millerites later drifted toward the work of Charles Taze Russell, who pushed back the date of Doomsday to 1874. When that date also passed, he revised his prediction, based on analyses of the Great Pyramids of Egypt, this time to 1914. This group would later be called Jehovah's Witnesses, with a membership of over 6 million.

Other segments of the Millerite movement, however, continued to make predictions, hence precipitating further splits each time a prediction failed. One small splinter group of Millerites was called the Branch Davidians; they broke off from the Seventh-Day Adventists in the 1930s. They had a small commune in Waco, Texas, which fell under the charismatic influence of a young preacher named David Koresh, who spoke hypnotically of the end of the world. That group met a fiery end in their tragic encounter with the FBI in 1993, when a raging inferno consumed the compound, incinerating 76 members, including 27 children, and also Koresh."

— by Jon Krakauer (on Mormonism)