Tony From Syracuse wrote:
I would pick alien invasion. seeing alien weaponry... how cool would that be, cause I'm sure they would have some scary stuff. like those tripods in "war of the worlds" with tom cruise. remember that scene when the tripod is standing there on the street...with all the people seeing it for the first time and then it starts unleashing its death ray and evaporating people right out of their clothes.....whoa. that scene made my jaw drop. too bad the rest of the movie was fairly ho hum.

I know! that movie had soo much potential, but then it jumped the shark for me when entire military and governments could not bring the tripod down.
And good old tommy, a house husband took one done.

Schlake wrote:
I don't vote for politicians because I refuse to support even the least of two (or more) evils.  There is no way I could pick the greatest of 8 evils!

But while I abstained from picking, I'd secretly hope it was disease cause by a lack of telephone sanitation.

lol

Wye wrote:
Demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass

Fun fact,

My name is Allen-Marvin.
I'm named marvin cause my parents absolutely loved Hitchhikers

Wye wrote:
Demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass

As long as there's enough warning to make dinner reservations at Milliways (and get there) I can live with this.

CNP Photography wrote:
I hate to be too terribly picky but with the exception of the comet (if it was a gawd awful huge one) none of the things on that list would result in the end of the world. The end of civilization, maybe. End of the human race, possible. End of all life on Earth, theoretically. But despite Zombies or AI or killer diseases the world (Earth) will continue orbiting the Sun as it has for the past 5 billion years or so and will continue to do so until the Sun itself finally dies.

+1

I was thinking probably the comet... or better yet, a maverick black hole that sucks up the entire solar system, sun and all.  Neat and tidy. 

Or.. maybe just a few drops of strategically placed "red matter" would do the job.  (Is that number 8?)

CNP Photography wrote:
I hate to be too terribly picky but with the exception of the comet (if it was a gawd awful huge one) none of the things on that list would result in the end of the world. The end of civilization, maybe. End of the human race, possible. End of all life on Earth, theoretically. But despite Zombies or AI or killer diseases the world (Earth) will continue orbiting the Sun as it has for the past 5 billion years or so and will continue to do so until the Sun itself finally dies.

This^^

CNP Photography wrote:
I hate to be too terribly picky but with the exception of the comet (if it was a gawd awful huge one) none of the things on that list would result in the end of the world. The end of civilization, maybe. End of the human race, possible. End of all life on Earth, theoretically. But despite Zombies or AI or killer diseases the world (Earth) will continue orbiting the Sun as it has for the past 5 billion years or so and will continue to do so until the Sun itself finally dies.

Actually, it's possible (but not very probable) that a passing star could enter the inner solar system and dislodge the earth from it's orbit around the sun, either sending it to wander on it's own, or being captured by the passing star.  The orbits of the planets are not fixed and immutable.  Given the proper external influence, they can, and have bounced around a bit.

Gerardo Martinez wrote:
An alien mothership preferably a reptilian one firing a few 3000-ton ferric-tungsten rounds at earth at 12,000 kilometers per second,[3] or 4% of the speed of light, each round impacting with a massive amount of kinetic energy. Now using a formula for kinetic energy, KE = 0.5 * m * v2, the force of each shot will be, 0.5 * 3'000'000 * 11991698.322, which is 2.15701e20. Given that a kiloton = 4184000000000 joules, then each shot produces 51553834.34 Kilotons of force (51553.83 Megatons, or 51.56 Gigatons). Thats how I want the world to end. I want Moscow, Washington D.C. and Beijing annihilated first though.

Is that from somewhere?

If yes: Great reference
If no: Great. I appreciate you even more.

Allen Carbon wrote:
Is that from somewhere?

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Magnetic_Accelerator_Cannon (scroll down to Mark V "Super MAC")

Oh, and I would go with #5 (Disease or pathogen related outbreak) because The Andromeda Strain (I guess that's technically 4 and 5)

The Grey Forest wrote:
9. One morning, on a sunrise like any other, every human on the planet finds themselves unable to tell a lie, and by the following dawn our civilization has destroyed itself in spectacular ways we never though imaginable.

Huh. In 1961, when nuclear annihilation was regarded as an imminent outcome, an episode of The Twilight Zone implied that compulsory truth-telling would actually save the world.

Allen Carbon wrote:

Is that from somewhere?

If yes: Great reference
If no: Great. I appreciate you even more.

Halo dude

HHPhoto wrote:

+1

I was thinking probably the comet... or better yet, a maverick black hole that sucks up the entire solar system, sun and all.  Neat and tidy. 

Or.. maybe just a few drops of strategically placed "red matter" would do the job.  (Is that number 8?)

I go with black hole
We all get sucked to death

CNP Photography wrote:
Amazing movie about the end of the world: Melancholia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHMy6abqq04

Probably not a good idea to watch the movie if you are prone to depression, tho.

I basicly heard this movie consists of 2 people basicly sobbing through the entire thing and only 5 minutes of world endng damage


I will pass

Chris Rifkin wrote:
I basicly heard this movie consists of 2 people basicly sobbing through the entire thing and only 5 minutes of world endng damage

I will pass

Pretty accurate synopsis, but Kirsten Dunst spends a lot/some of the movie naked, so it's worth a watch.  Keep some antidepressants handy though.

mikell wrote:
considering the industrial complex  my studio is in of the choices offered I'd go with the walking dead style zombie apocalypse, location is perfect and there's enough resources to hold up for years
but since I already have the jacket I'd prefer a Mad Max type global meltdown

or maybe combine the two

YES PLEASE.

Jim Ball wrote:
Actually, it's possible (but not very probable) that a passing star could enter the inner solar system and dislodge the earth from it's orbit around the sun, either sending it to wander on it's own, or being captured by the passing star.  The orbits of the planets are not fixed and immutable.  Given the proper external influence, they can, and have bounced around a bit.

Does the knowledge of our complete insignificance in the grand scheme of things keep anyone else from sleeping?

I had to quit star gazing years ago.
Always makes me depressed. Or deviant.
Moral ambivalence is such a bitch...

CNP Photography wrote:
Amazing movie about the end of the world: Melancholia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHMy6abqq04

Probably not a good idea to watch the movie if you are prone to depression, tho.

I don't know.  I suffer from depression and I thought the movie was spot on.  Notice how the depressed woman handled the end better than her nondepressed sister.

ernst tischler wrote:
The end will come when the napping alien awakens and realizes it was all just a dream.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

("In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.")