Nowadays there are many speculations out there as to how the world will end. An asteroid hitting the Earth is the most logical of them all. With so many asteroids shooting past the Earth on a daily basis one is bound to hit us and will end the world as you knew it. This is the type of disaster that would be hard for society to prepare for. With asteroids shooting through space one will ultimately end the world as we knew it. You would think that with all of the technology everywhere that there would be a way for someone to stop an asteroid from ending all existence. When an asteroid comes our way there will be no way to stop it, and it will ultimately end the world as you know it. With so many astronomers out there watching everything …show more content…
Not only would it kill off most of the humans it will also kill of most of the plant life and animal life as well. According to Jaroff (2000), “...As recently as 1996, an asteroid about a third of a mile wide passed within 280,000 miles of Earth--a hairbreadth by astronomical standards. It was the largest object ever observed to pass that close and, had it hit, would have caused an explosion in the 5,000-to-12,000-megaton range’’ (p. 80). If this asteroid was so close to Earth less than twenty years to go who’s to say that there isn’t another one coming that will actually strike Earth and change the world as we knew …show more content…
According to Seminiuk (2003), “As the dust and debris re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, the searing heat caused by friction spelled doom: it heated the air to a temperature at which whole continents simply ignited. Three-quarters of all plant and animal species, including the dinosaurs, were wiped out” (p. 178). With the temperature also changing anything that is still alive will die not too long after because of the life not being able to adapt to the new changes to the world. The sun would also be blocked by the debris and all things that are still living would be faced with yet another obstacle. With all the environmental changes it is likely going to cause many different types of weather such as flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and tornados. With the swift changes to the environment the weather that is is likely to bring is deadly to the ones who survived the asteroid impact. It would also be hard for the people to find shelter away from the weather with everything now being gone. When an asteroid comes at Earth there is absolutely nothing that anyone can do it stop it. All you can do is wait and watch everything in the world change in a blink of an eye. There are going to be so many unprepared people who will realize when the asteroid is on it way towards them that they should have done something to prepare for the impact that will soon end everything that
So d’muari and his crew loaded up 206 , and took it to base 32 which was the place the asteroid would his . 10 minutes until the asteroid hits , now there setting up prect 206 and aiming it straight towards the asteroid. 5 minutes until the asteroid hits. Dmuari and crew has now got 206 up and running and aimed at the asteroid . Asteroid has now hit the atmosphere , and 206 is launched , and waves are pushing it away .The asteroid has started to resist project 206 and is picking up speed . The people of earth is shocked , because if this asteroid hits us planet earth is gone. But they cracked the power up and the waves became stronger pushing it away from earth . Citizens were releaved , that they had a another day to live
Chapter one in the book, Human Geography, gives a timeline of the changes that have occurred since the creation of planet Earth. The author, John Rennie Short, explained how truly powerful the earth itself is. It has the ability to wipe out humanity. We often blame nature when natural disasters happen, but perhaps the human race may have something to do with the cause of environmental hazards like volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, and earthquakes.
Taking life for granted is an attribute that many do in today's world; however, when one looks at how precious life is, one realizes how fast it can all be taken away. Human's demise could all be caused from the magnitude and impact of a single meteor, similar to the asteroid that brought about the extinction of the dinosaurs. If this theory is in fact correct, would the ongoing process of evolution continue? Recent studies show that this thought is entirely mistaken. Anthropologist, Ian Tattersail, says, "Because we have evolved, it is natural to imagine we will continue to do so, but I think that's wrong" (Owen; n. pag).
Armageddon a term used to describe the final period of time in which good and bad forces will finally clash. Fifty years ago during the Cold War the Soviet Union and United States entered into a thirteen day military and political stand off over the installation of nuclear-armed soviet missiles on Cuba. During the year of 1962 and the Cold War, a confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union was a time when two superpowers were nearly approaching a nuclear strife.
There are many key events, but the most crucial incident came on July 15, 1994. Eugene Shoemaker, Carolyn Shoemaker, and David Levy had discovered a comet in March of 1993 that was on an impact path with Jupiter (Koppes). The comet, SL9(Shoemaker- Levy 9), consisted of 21 large lumps of ice that would cause more destructive force than thousands and thousands of 58-megaton bombs . From this event, witnesses from scientists to civilians with telescopes watched as the comet created brilliant flashes of light and left dark impact spots on Jupiter (Koppes). This incredible event led to the question, “what if we knew a comet like SL9 was headed towards earth?” In 1998, NASA started the NEO(near earth objects) Observations program to find and track asteroids that will come close to earth(Chodas). Today, this program has identified over 13,000 asteroids and comets that come close to earth. But let us put into perspective what is meant by close before we start preparing for the end of the world. Presently, the most recent “close call” was on June 16 when Asteroid Icarus passed by earth at a distance of over 50 million miles(Brown). That is over 21 times the distance from earth to the moon
So, what do we do now? Well we run around and tell everybody in our second century life about this imminent event. And then, one day, we die. Then the next generation prophesizes that it will happen in their lifetime. Eventually they all die. Then the next generation prophesizes that it will happen in their lifetime. Eventually they all die. Then the next generation prophesizes that it will happen in their lifetime. Eventually they die too.
Since the end of the World War II, the world countries are facing in political hostility characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare called Cold War. Within the nonstop Cold War of the world countries; finally, the World War III will be coming. Unlike the other past big world wars, World War III will be the most disastrous for human life. The reason is because many countries are armed with nuclear weapons. For example, at this time 16 thousand nuclear weapons are stored at sites in fourteen countries and many are ready for immediate use( source : www.icanw.org). These nuclear weapons are more than enough to make the planet uninhabitable. Initial blast of nuclear weapons could
Many people believe that it is not possible for the Earth to be drastically affected by a meteor or other object from space. However, scientists who study near-earth objects have discovered an asteroid named Apophis who, in their studies, will most likely hit Earth in 2036. In the novel This World We Live In by Susan Pfeffer, a meteor hits the moon, causing the Earth’s climate to change rapidly. In the novel, a seventeen year old girl named Miranda Evans lives with her mother and two brothers, and has to fight to stay alive in a world collapsing around them. When her father, step mother, half brother, and three other people come to their house to live with them, everything changes, and she begins to wonder how much longer they can survive.
According to recent speculation, the end of the world will be coming to an unfortunate end on September 23, 2017. These accusations were made mostly by a man named David Meade. He based this assumption off of his study of biblical numerology. There were two previous theories as to when the world would end, which foreseeably would end up not being the case. Meade said that Planet X or a planet called Nibiru would collide with Earth, however, science says otherwise. Scientists say that if there was a real threat we would have been watching these said planets for at least a decade and the planets would have been visible to the naked eye. Our current alignment doesn’t seem to be too much out of the ordinary either. Professor Anthony Aveni attributes the claims made by Meade and other Christians to be made out of boredom or to have a definitive answer to how the world will proceed. Ultimately there is no Nibiru, therefore the end of the world is most likely not going to occur tomorrow.
Another theory, “psychoactive overdosing,” was proposed by UCLA psychiatrist Robert K. Siegel. He claims that angiosperms, or flowering plants, produced “an array of amino-acid-based alkaloids,” which dinosaurs would unconsciously eat and end up dying. This theory believes that dinosaurs did not have the livers nor the bitterness taste buds to notice and detoxify the psychoactive agents in the angiosperms. Last, but not least, a theory of a collision that came upon earth 65 million years ago. Father and son, Luis and Walter Alvarez, reconstructed a scenario that explained the death of dinosaurs on land, and proposed that a giant dust cloud darkened the earth; causing photosynthesis to discontinue, followed by a drastic temperature drop (pg. 452). Any hypothesis theory is a big contradiction. It is useful with all the advantages it has, yet it can be a disadvantage when an answer can never be found. While the first two theories of extraterrestrial catastrophe are captivating, the “disaster” theory seems more likely reasonable. The asteroid theory is the most developed answer based on the source of testable evidence of iridium – as it proves the dissimilarity of speculation and science when it was found
The novel “End of Days” by Eric Walters starts off with a Soviet satellite’s travels. It first traveled to Jupiter and eventually left our solar system. The satellite reached a huge asteroid with the diameter of 500 kilometers roughly 1/6 the diameter of the moon. The satellite orbited the asteroid, just by accident the satellite’s messages were received on earth. Those messages revealed that the satellite was on its way home and the asteroid was coming with it. If it hit earth all of life on earth cease, if it missed then the earth would be pushed too close to the sun and life would never be able to survive on Earth again. An organization called the International Aerospace Research Institute planned to use the nuclear weapons of every nuclear-capable
In our solar system today there are over 30,000 asteroids flying around in all direction colliding with other asteroids and planets, without a care about the destruction they might convey. Our planet Earth is caught right in the middle of all of this action and is liable to entire extinction of any life forms on the planet if a large enough asteroid crosses its path. Any single asteroid has the possibility to erase thousands of years of history and wipeout the human race, as we know it.
Our sun is halfway through its life cycle and based on the studies of the stars, when it reaches the last stages of its life it will go supernova destroying Earth, but that won’t happen in about 5 billion years.
The planet Earth could be defined as one small piece to an extremely large puzzle within our Galaxy. With out, the Galaxy would not function in the same way as it does now. Inside our planet are several different resources that are used every day. Whether this is direct use such as drilling for oil, or indirect use such as over grazing our land to feed the animals that will in turn feed humans, the point is the Earth is feeling the effects of it. Some argue that we will never run out of resources, at least not in our lifetime; others believe that we are overusing resources and through this we are minimizing our chances of
Armageddon was not created as a whimsical fantasy of Hollywood masterminds. In fact, its basic premise stems from a distinct historical event. In 1994, for the first time in the history of humankind, scientists were able to witness in detail the collision of two solar system bodies. Having circled Jupiter in an enclosing elliptical pattern for what scientists speculate to be hundreds of years, comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was wrenched out of its orbit by Jupiter’s gravity and into a collision course with the planet’s dense atmosphere. This collision produced "bubble[s] of superheated gas that blazed with 50 times the infrared luminosity of the entire planet, briefly blinding some telescopes." Comet fragments pounded Jupiter at an estimated speed of 60 kilometers per second (134,000 miles an hour), and although the largest fragments measured no more