Pick your Favorite Apocalypse

[theotherguy]

How do you think civilization as we know it should end? Pick your doom, and explain why.

 

[PorkPi]

Zombie. No other apocalypse would be nearly as fun. I considered dinosaur apocalypse a la Jurassic Park, but humans can't fight against dinosaurs quite as well. The only others on this list that might give us all a good time before crushing us are alien invasion and robot uprising.

 

[Dog--]

Zombies, oh god I hope zombies. I read the zombie survival guide which automatically means I'M PRO WITH ZOMBIES.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I want to try kamehameha-ing an asteroid.

 

[Darkside55]

I read the zombie survival guide

IN BEFORE DARKSI

wait

Spoiler

Also oh god gray goo scenario I can't take it I know that compared to the others--except maybe alien invasion--it's the most improbable but ugh can you imagine being coated in nanobots and having them swarm down your throat and up your nose and in your ears and your eyes and every damn orifice on your body and devouring you to fuel their neverending spread across the Earth? Ugh, I can't handle it.

Spoiler

Voted zombies. I can deal with zombies.

 

[Sheepo]

I'm going to be predictable and say Zombies.

 

[MJ12]

The apocalypse where I am the only man left on Earth.

Helloo ladies.

 

[Darkside55]

ladies

You're not fooling anybody, ZT.

Just say zombies.

 

[knut]

Zombies vs robots and then me in the middle, also versus... someone.

Yeah zombies probably.

 

[Absinthe]

Voted for robot uprising immediately upon seeing it as an option. Oh yeah. It's something I've thought about a lot.

 

[SpotEnemyBoats]

^ Robot uprising, all robots superior and all fleshlings inferior. Second choice would be an alien invasion, perferably the Combine.

 

[Captain M4d]

Gray goo sounds like a fun ride. Would these nanobots be able to enter our bodies and then make them fly (if they're enough of them? Flying carcasses would be pretty amusing.

 

[dfc05]

I'd go with asteroid or supervolcano for the sheer epicness of destruction they'd cause. But asteroid is cooler than supervolcano, so I voted asteroid.

 

[Tacoeaterguy]

I would enjoy seeing the sun supernova. It would be awesome.

 

[Captain M4d]

I'd go with asteroid or supervolcano for the sheer epicness of destruction they'd cause. But asteroid is cooler than supervolcano, so I voted asteroid.

You would, considering your avatar.

 

[Sloth]

I'd think Zombies at least give some chance of survival, also it'd weed out the fat ones.

Rule #1 Cardio.

Plus, it might actually make some of the skills that we hold too dear meaningless - anything from computer gaming to being able to type well. Who needs to spell when a well placed round to a Zombie skull is all you need to get by?

 

[Shyam]

Zombies, then you have an excuse to shoot and murder your enemies as gruesomely as possible.

 

[Acepilotf14]

One man annihilates the world through cunning politics and deception.

That'd show all those posers.

 

[L3N!N]

Zombies.

 

[Danimal]

One man annihilates the world through cunning politics and deception.

That'd show all those posers.

 

[theotherguy]

I WAS going to pick robot uprising, but after my experiences doing research in robotics, I realize that a robotic uprising would not be very exciting. All it would take to stop the robots would be confusing their sensors with something as simple as bad weather or even changing times of day!

I would therefore go with alien invasion, just because that would be awesome.

I AM a fan of Zombies, but I'm getting tired of the zombie premise.

 

[Warped]

It would be fun to see all the bad cataclysmic things happen all in order

 

[Danimal]

tbh Warped we won't get past the sun's death.

 

[Xevrex]

Nuclear war. But on one condition: we don't get death, we get a future akin to Fallout.

If I can't have that, I want Zombies.

 

[Saturos]

I voted other, but probably should've voted plague.

Two words, Krippon Virus.

 

[Laivasse]

I want the world as we know it to end in Technological Singularity. Being unsure as to whether it was really worth classing that under 'Other', I voted Robot Uprising.

But a Tech Singularity could also be so much more! Imagine exponentially increasing intelligence, reconstituting its environment in inconceivable ways...! Humanity could become a single collective consciousness and start to float around the solar system on a huge ramshackle starship (constructed out of a hastily repurposed planet Earth)...

Or instead we could all end up under the jackboot of a grouchy, misanthropic AI, one that possesses no higher goal than grinding our faces into the dirt and using us as coal - which would be AWESOME. Or some of us might become transhumans via forced evolution, creating tensions between underprivileged, unmodified people and the new faggy High Elf wonderhumans, eventually escalating to a war which YADA YADA!

Apocalypse or not, surely the destiny of mankind lies here! And that's why I voted for... er, robot uprising. Hm.

 

[Polaris]

Particle accelerator gone wrong - strangelets scenario. Unlike as it is, this one would be awesome.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Honestly a grey goo scenario would be horrifying and fascinating. It also assumes we'd get to the point where nanotechnology is applied regularly. Sweet!

 

[Acepilotf14]

Honestly a grey goo scenario would be horrifying and fascinating. It also assumes we'd get to the point where nanotechnology is applied regularly. Sweet!

 

[Remus]

Gray Goo. The Earth getting eaten by a silver blob FTW.

 

[Baal]

I'm torn. I can't choose. Asteroid is interesting, because it's one of the few you might not see coming, and it would happen all of a sudden - one could be heading at any of us right now and we might not even know! Plus it's just awesome. An explosion of never before seen proportions (assuming it's a big enough asteroid, but since we're talking apocalypse, it's implied I suppose).

On the other hand, Death of the Sun is neat, because it's the only apocalypse that is guaranteed to happen eventually. Whether us humans will still be here when it happens or not, who knows, but the Sun will die.

Then of course you have the Robot Uprising apocalypse, which is just ****ing cool.

Screw it, I'm going with Asteroid. I can't help but love a big explosion.

 

[Gman]

Zombie Apocalypse.(If i was in a mall that would be better)

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

On the other hand, Death of the Sun is neat, because it's the only apocalypse that is guaranteed to happen eventually. Whether us humans will still be here when it happens or not, who knows, but the Sun will die.
.

This seems v. presumptuous of you. Don't rule out the possibility that we could be the experiment of a species that has transcended the death of solar systems and suns and mastered intergalactic travel. They might just give us a new sun and we'd never smell the difference! (using smell figuratively, it's more likely that we'd feel the difference, or something). Maybe humanity has existed on several different worlds and we're the control group and will never actually experience the death of a sun for several Googoplex years--you know? Because they'll just keep swapping out suns for the sake of the experiment.

 

[barbarbarbarbar]

Zombies **** YEAH - L4D IRL <3

 

[Green Floyd]

Most definitely zombies, anything else would just be an anticlimax for me. What better way to end the human race than by ushering a new breed of deluded, flesh-eating versions of our previous selves. Easily the best way to put Darwin's theory into action!

 

[Shift]

Zombies so I can use it as an excuse to raid a gun shop with some mates and kick some ass!

 

[barbarbarbarbar]

Humanity could survive a super volcano and theoretically , the death of the sun (only if we have star trek level technology)
A super volcano would only screw the U.S up - the rest of the world would be affected but nothing too serious.

 

[Shem]

Alien Invasion

Hold on, I need to go find my crowbar and HEV suit, be back in a minute.

 

[Shift]

Humanity could survive a super volcano and theoretically , the death of the sun (only if we have star trek level technology)
A super volcano would only screw the U.S up - the rest of the world would be affected but nothing too serious.

Not serious? Apart from the fact that huge amount of gasses that will thrown into the atmosphere would considerably **** up our ozone even more than it is and cause radical weather cycles for many years, and causing a volcanic winter most likely, and then the deaths of millions across America would cause MASSIVE economic backlashes across the globe, as well as a massive reduction it food trade from the states causing large amounts of starvation. The final body count could be in the billions if the super volcano erupted. It wouldn't wipe us out, but we would be set back for many years.

 

[Operational]

When a Supervolcano went off in the Pacific Ocean humanity panicked as they watched vast quantities of ash being thrown up into the atmosphere and cloud the Sun. Fortunately the cooling effect of this ash merely counteracted global warming and despite missing the stars life went on as usual. However the ash meant that nobody noticed the Asteroid on a collision course for Earth and it hit without warning.

While the immediate damage was low it brought to Earth a horrifying Space-Virus that turned humans into raging, mindless Zombies with a taste for brains. Those immune to the virus found a cure easily but could not find a suitable way to distribute it to the huge masses of Zombies roaming the Earth. Eventually they spread the cure through several types of common bacteria and humanity was cured. Unfortuanely the bacteria then mutated into a Plague. The Plague was fast spreading, debilitating in the short term and, without proper care, lethal in the long-term.

To survive the plauge Earth built a race of Robots to take care of humanity, but after the Plague was over they tired of being mistreated and rebelled. It was a long, hard, fight but humanity come out victorious. As a last ditch attempt for revenge the robots unleashed a doomsday device - swarms of nanobots programmed to consume everything in order to replicate. Threatened with the planet being transformed into grey goo humanity, in desperation, sent out a intergalactic broadcast for help. As luck would have it Aliens picked up the transmission, traveled to Earth and neutralized the nanobots.

The Aliens then launched a surprise attack. Earth's only effective weapons against the Aliens were excessive amounts of Nuclear Missiles. The Aliens were destroyed but it was a Pyrrhic victory - most of the Earth became radioactive wasteland and those that survived suffered harsh radiation poisoning. Children lived just long enough to give birth to the next generation while humanity dreamed of reclaiming all that was lost.

Then the Sun expanded and killed everything.
The End.