For me, it'd be a black hole, or Zombies. An uncommon one is Paranormal Warfare, where humans would become irrelevant while Angels, Demons, and Scariest of All: GHOSTS, waged war on the planet. The first two are probable, last one not so much.
I'd be much more afraid of demons than ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts anyway. Demons are an entirely different matter though.
I don't understand what you mean by the world ending by a black hole or zombies are "probable". I'd say the chances of zombies rising are pretty much zero. The black hole is more likely but even that is extremely unlikely. I'd say nuclear war, a disease epidemic, or a huge asteroid slamming into the earth again are much more probable scenarios. Or even the sun burning out which will happen eventually. Probably not for billions of years though.
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global warming / nuclear war. it's scarier for me to think the earth will end cause we did some dumb shit than a random natural disaster like an asteroid that is more or less unpreventable. zombies/ghosts/etc are fake so i can't get scared of that shit.
as for just the human species... i think the best way for us to go out is by making robots that are superior to us to take our place.
Demons in the traditional sense. Not Paranormal Activity demons. As for the Zombie's thing, no one's going to rise from the dead, but a disease spread by Saliva and Blood, totally different, think bath salts, they don't even really have to be dead, just mindless and cannibalistic.
Also, you have no idea how terrifying looking out your window and seeing a supermassive Black Hole would look, imagine going into the sun, but bigger and pure darkness.
Yeah, I agree that the black hole would be super terrifying but I think it's highly unlikely that would ever happen.
__________________ Darwin's theory of evolution is the great white elephant of contemporary thought. It is large, completely useless, and the object of superstitious awe.-Dr. David Berlinski, Philosophy
Most people believe Evolution not because they themselves are dumb, but cause they trust the "experts" who are feeding them evolutionary fast food, and so they don't bother questioning whether or not it's true.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Top Scariest ways Earth could end.
Did you know that you as a human being, if maintained your mass and got tiny enough, would turn into a Black Hole? Did you know there are over 10k Black Holes in our Galaxy, the biggest one at the center of the galaxy? Last but not least, there is a machine on our planet, that, if misused, could create a black hole on the planet, that could swallow the planet whole. It's called the Hadron, I don't remember what it's purpose is, but... yeah. Also, Gamma Ray Bursts. They would fry everyone on the planet to a crisp.
The 1% raping the Earth, sucking out all its resources in the name of greed and profit, til the Earth becomes a polluted, lifeless husk, except for the few humans still living, desperately clinging to their bank statements.
Actually, that would be the saddest way for the Earth to end. The scariest? We're in the direct line of fire from a gamma-ray burst ... though getting sucked into a black hole -- a smaller one, so the destruction takes time -- would also be chock full of awesomeness.
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You're telling me that getting fried to death is scarier then looking outside, seeing a giant black hole bigger then the sun, and then watching it get closer and closer, wouldn't be as scary?
All life on Earth would be destroyed within seconds on Earth, btw. We'd become spaghettified, the gravity so strong that it forces your body to implode. Plus, I can't even imagine how horrifying it'd look inside, and yes, if we were outside on earth, we would be able to see the inside of a black hole before we died.
They're also rather noisy, so that's also a thing. It's been said that it sounds more terrifying then any Natural Disaster ever to befall mankind.
Well, that's the thing: you wouldn't need a black hole bigger than the sun (actually, afaik, most are way smaller cuz of the extreme compaction) to wreck havoc. And since one can't see black holes anyway -- just their effects -- we'd be seeing/feeling the Earth (and everything on it) getting pulled apart w/o ever spying what's actually doing it.
Damn. We wouldn't even get the satisfaction of seeing our killer. Kinda like a phantom accident. Makes all kinds of gnarly traffic probs; you're straining to see what's causing it. But by the time you get there ... nothing. What a letdown.
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From space? That's another story. Assuming you were far enough from the hole so its gravity didn't capture you, you'd probably see something like this:
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That's worth the price of an admission ticket, I'd say.
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If the Sun emitted a massive solar flare, the resulting EMP could destroy all technology on the planet and hurdle humanity back to the Stone Age. The mass chaos and anarchy would be a survival of the fittest situations to the extreme.
Maybe this isn't a literal end of the world scenario, but you get the gist.
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If the world were destroyed by a black hole i don't think we would know it. We would probably die due to gravitational or orbital changes before we even knew there was a problem.
I think experiencing the ring of fie erupting would be frightening. If you somehow survived the mass, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic fallout you'd get to live the rest of your days in global chaos.
A worldwide nuclear exchange or bio warfare is probably the most terrifying to me though.
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