First, antimatter does not occur naturally and thus would have to be produced in quantities that would nearly equal the mass of the Earth in order to destroy it. According to this article, one would need 2,500,000,000,000 tons of antimatter 2,500,000,000,000 tons of antimatter and 224,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules of energy, which is about what the sun produces in a week. Unless one discovers a dimension (as the article suggests) in which one can transport matter to instantly convert it to antimatter, such production would take quite a few centuries (and assuming that it would all be collected for an Earth-destroying bomb is silly - no leader is foolish enough to consider destroying an entire planet [and no, nuking enemies is not the same as destroying the planet]).

It's not exactly an impending doom. 500 years is a long time.

Second, it doesn't matter how many people are drinking the water, it's still coming back. Ocean water will evaporate and rain as freshwater, be consumed, and then evaporate again from the body or feces/urine of creatures and return to the cycle of fresh water. Besides, saltwater can be filtered. It's difficult and expensive, but it's possible.

 

 

 

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I never said how long it would take. And I did state that it will be gone and that it isn't coming back as fast as it is being used. But you forget the Nuclear War part. Must I explain it again?

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I didn't forget it, I just didn't reply concerning it.

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(My appologizies...I don't have time to read all the previous posts).

One argument is that the rise in problems could be attributed to global "population control." Much in the same way that forest fires, droughts, and famines are part of the cycle of life. Though putting subjective human choices (e.g. the war in iraq) into that equation seems sketchy at best.

Another possibility is that we just have a much wider scope of communication/access of information than we ever did before. As such, the same ammount of problems could have always been occouring--we just wouldn't have been aware of it previously.

As far as the apocolyptic/end of the world senarioes go...I personally think that is just a load of horse-*bleep*, and that those professing those specific idealiogies are religious wackjobs...then again, that's just my opinion.

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Actually, water can disappear from the planet and never be replenished. Take a look at Mars as many of the surface features were created by large amounts of water (canyons, gullies, valleys, etc). Also, if the sun becomes so active that the average temperature of the earth rises to near boiling, the water will eventually cease to exist here. First, thick clouds will be produced insulating the earth and cause an acceleration of the "greenhouse" effect. This, in turn, will cause the temerature to rise even faster. As the sun expands and grows hotter, eventually the water will be burned off the planet (including all life). The earth will just be like venus... very hot and dead.

Also, there are those predicting the end of this age in December, 2012. Not really the end of the world but the end of an age and the beginning of a new one. We'll just have to sit back and watch to see if it actually happens or not. You might want to keep an eye on the activity of the sun, too. Massive solar flares are going to erupt and collide with the earth and cause massive destruction (such flares have occurred in the recent past, Aug-Sep, 2005, and have knocked out satellites and power-grids here on earth, being the most powerful ever recorded). The next high point of the sunspot cycle occurs in 2012. It's interesting that the most powerful solar flare (which completely went off the scale) occurred about a year ago and it's during the inactive or low-point in the sunspot cycle.

NASA has also announced that the massive tsunami caused by an earthquake in south east asia actually caused the whole planet to slightly shift on its axis as well as cause the day to be slighty longer by causing the earth to slow down a bit. Such destruction is going to escalate. Even last winter was found to be the warmest ever recorded since weather began being recorded in the late 19th century. I believe that, at the rate things are occuring, I will be around to witness the end of the current age (which is not the same as the end of the world). I see the collapse of many countries, including the United States. It's inevitable as there is not one nation that has never collapsed in the history of the world. If it has a beginning, it has an end...

 

 

 

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I heard about that slowing down due to the tsunami. As for water leaving a planet, sure it can evaporate off the planet, but that isn't the case when the planet has an atmosphere as thick as Earth's. The pressure of the atmosphere and the pull of gravity keep Earth's atmosphere from boiling off, so as a result, we aren't losing any water.

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Granted, the water from earth escaping into space is currently so negligible that it can be written off and ignored. But suppose that the temperature of earth was about equal to that of Venus... what would happen to the water if the temperature always hovered around 600-900 degrees Fahrenheit? Can such a senario actually occur? There are scientists that believe, in time, the sun will expand until it engulfs the earth, among other planets. Hmmm... I wonder if the earth will hold onto its water when the surface temperature increases to 1500 degrees F as the sun greatly expands X number of centuries from now... Will the gravity be sufficient to hold onto the water?

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If the temperature of the Earth was 600-900 degrees, water boiling off the planet would be the least of our worries.

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AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! THE WORLDS GOING TO EXPLODE

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I feel the world is what me make it because we are the one who dare to change it, almost to the extent of questioning nature many times. The main culprit of the increase of confusion is 'increase in population'. Its because of increasing population that we face lot of competition and lot of poverty. Although in todays world education is probably not as a big problem as population as most of the people have realized that education is the key to success. But they have yet to realize that as education is the key to success, the same way over-population is the key to destruction and chaos. What do you think bird-flu and SARS will propagate if there is distributed population? No. Its just because the density of people is very high. The North Korea-US tension is another example of competition arised due to inflation of population and the fight fo rnuclear power. I guess nature handles the chaos on its own and there is natural selection by struggle for existence and survival of the fittest. It is the rule that entropy increases but it is nature that handles the entropy and distributes it. Finally I don't feel God is the culprit but it is only we who can do something to make the world a better place to live in! All the best.

I feel the world is what me make it because we are the one who dare to change it, almost to the extent of questioning nature many times. The main culprit of the increase of confusion is 'increase in population'. Its because of increasing population that we face lot of competition and lot of poverty. Although in todays world education is probably not as a big problem as population as most of the people have realized that education is the key to success. But they have yet to realize that as education is the key to success, the same way over-population is the key to destruction and chaos. What do you think bird-flu and SARS will propagate if there is distributed population? No. Its just because the density of people is very high. The North Korea-US tension is another example of competition arised due to inflation of population and the fight fo rnuclear power. I guess nature handles the chaos on its own and there is natural selection by struggle for existence and survival of the fittest. It is the rule that entropy increases but it is nature that handles the entropy and distributes it. Finally I don't feel God is the culprit but it is only we who can do something to make the world a better place to live in! All the best.

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