In watching the news for the last few weeks I started thinking about how many times "The world is going to end" i can remember since I've been old enough to be paranoid. Here are all the world-ending scenarios I can recall:
- 1970's - The ozone layer was disintegrating - we were all going to die of skin cancer or be forced to live in underground cities
- Planetary alignment around 1981 or 1982 - All the planets were going to be in a once-every-xx-year alignment and the gravitational title forces were going to rip the planet to shreds (this was really big..we were doomed!)
- Global starvation - in the 1980s many scientists were predicting global planetary starvation based on population growth trends
- Nuclear winter - also in the 1980's - the planet would be shrouded in smoke and ash after the looming global thermonuclear war causing worldwide "Global Cooling" - all vegetation and animal life would die.
- Nostradamus said "fire from the sky" would bring an end to us all in August 1999
- Y2K - worldwide computer failure based on the Y2K bug, civilization would fall, anarchy in the streets, cats & dogs sleeping together.
- Global Warming - "The Earth Has a Fever"! If we don't do something now, all hell be breaking loose
- 2009 - Total economic breakdown starting in the you.S. and bringing the entire global economic system with it.
- 2012 - The Mayans decided that it didnt make any sense to draw-out their calendars any further then the Winter Solstice 2012, so the world must end on that day
Can you remember any other "end of the world?" or doomsdays - post what comes to mind or whatever you can remember (not what you can find in Google).. I want to make sure i dont miss the end of the world!
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Well I know im personally still waiting to die from world wide pandemics of:
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