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5 ways people believe that the World will come to an end

It's human nature for us to think that the world (or at least civilization) is coming to an end.

Updated: August 4, 2014 8:13 PM IST

By Andrew Jacquet

5 ways people believe that the World will come to an end

It’s human nature for us to think that the world (or at least civilization) is coming to an end. There’s a kind of romanticism attached to the whole destruction of the human race concept. Its fun to think about and there are countless books, movies, video games and even groups of weirdoes focused solely on this phenomenon. People are attracted to the idea of the world coming to an end perhaps because normal life is so boring, what way to brighten up your day than a good old fashioned zombie apocalypse or nuclear Armageddon (which would quite literally brighten up your day)? There are many theories about how humanity will be destroyed here are some of the most widely accepted “theories” of how you can expect life as we know it to end abruptly:

1) Nuclear Holocaust: This was the “in” thing (as far as apocalypse fads are concerned) during the Cold War, but has largely subsided in popularity since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Unlike many of the other theories, nuclear wars between the US and Russians almost happened on a few occasions making a nuclear apocalypse a nasty possibility. In a nuclear apocalypse the whole world is blown to smithereens by powerful nuclear explosions, those that survive the explosions are killed by radiation and those who aren’t exposed to radiation die in the ensuing nuclear winter that ends most of life on earth. Charming isn’t it?

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2) Zombie Apocalypse- This is a personal favourite. Unlike nuclear wars when you cant go outside because of radiation, a zombie apocalypse offers you a chance of great physical exercise. There are several types of zombies depending on the franchise you like, but the golden rules 1) Shoot zombies in the head, 2) Don’t let them bite you. 3) Don’t bite them. The zombie apocalypse is currently the most popular theory of how the world will end given the success of Resident Evil and Left 4 Dead.

3) Rise of Machines- Popularised by the Terminator series this theory suggests that human technology will advance to a state where the artificial intelligence in machines and computers will become self aware, realise that human beings suck and try and wipe us all out. Famous entities associated with technology going out of control are Skynet and Hal 9000.

4) Alien Invasion- This is easily the scariest of all the theories. It suggests that an  advanced alien species will come to Earth looking for resources or a new place to go on vacation, find that human beings already live here and try and wipe us out. With their superior technology they’ll probably take us down, unless of course their technology goes out of control in which case we could fight side by side with aliens, now that would be cool.

5) Meteor Strike- Meteors have the nasty habit of crashing into Earth and obliterating everything like 65 million years ago when the killed the dinosaurs. Who’s to say it won’t happen again? This will be similar to a nuclear holocaust only worse and with nobody to blame.

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