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  1. Jan 23, 2024 · CNN — The Doomsday Clock that has been ticking for 77 years is no ordinary clock — it attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, the clock was again set at 90...

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  2. The 2012 phenomenon predicted the world would end at the end of the 13th b'ak'tun. The Earth would be destroyed by an asteroid, Nibiru , or some other interplanetary object; an alien invasion ; or a supernova .

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    Claimant (s)
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    1901
    This church, founded in 1831, claimed ...
    1901
    Keeler, a prominent doctor in ...
    1910
    Flammarion predicted that the 1910 ...
    1892–1911
    This pyramidologist concluded from his ...
    • The Mayan Calendar
    • Camping and The Rapture
    • The Black Hole from Geneva
    • Y2K and The Millennium Bug
    • Nostradamus and The King of Terror
    • The Great Flood and The Flying Saucer
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    The end of the world was predicted to occur on December 21, 2012, when one of the great cycles in the Mayan calendarcame to an end. In the run-up to the day, the internet abounded with predictions about an apocalypse happening on “12/21/12”. Faced with the wealth of alarmist information available on the World Wide Web, even NASA was compelledto pub...

    The world was also supposed to end on October 21, 2011. American radio host Harold Campinghad arrived at the date for the apocalypse through a series of calculations that he claimed were based on Jewish feast days and the lunar calendar. In addition to his claims about the end of the world, he also predicted that on May 21, 2011, at precisely 6:00 ...

    Scientists use the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)near Geneva, Switzerland, to set up controlled collisions of particles at very high speeds. The experiments have caused some to believe that the energies set free by the collisions will form a black holepowerful enough to consume Earth and all life on it. No such black hole has been sighted yet, and sev...

    Toward the end of the second millennium, people around the world feared that the world would end simultaneously with the beginning of the year 2000, or Y2K. This prediction was based on the practice followed by computer programmers of abbreviating year numbers with two digitswhen developing software. For instance, “1999” would be coded as “99.” At ...

    Renowned seer Nostradamus prophesied 250 years ago that a “king of terror” would come from the sky in 1999. Austrian geologist and Nostradamus buff Alexander Tollmann decided to play it safe by sitting it out in a self-built bunker in Austria. Tollmann was convinced that the apocalypse was to come early in August, a fear that was consolidated by th...

    Chicago housewife Dorothy Martin (a.k.a. Marion Keech) claimed to have received a message from planet Clarion in the early 1950s: the world was to end in a great floodbefore dawn on December 21, 1954. Martin and a group of followers were convinced that a flying saucer would rescue the true believersbefore the inevitable destruction of Earth. The be...

    Learn about the most notorious doomsday predictions that failed to materialize, from the Mayan calendar to Nostradamus. Find out why the world will not end in 2024 or any other year, according to science and logic.

  3. The Extinction Clock shows the date and source of various claims about the end of the world or the extinction of species. See how climate change, natural disasters, and human activities could affect the planet and its inhabitants by 2050 or beyond.

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    Date & Source
    Claim
    Doomsday Date
    75 Years 182 Days 16 Hours 9 Minutes 46 ...
    80% of Emperor penguins will be extinct ...
    December 31, 2099
    45 Years 175 Days 16 Hours 9 Minutes 46 ...
    Increasing natural disasters, drought and ...
    December 31, 2069
    32 Years 310 Days 15 Hours 9 Minutes 46 ...
    Within a lifetime, humans might be living ...
    May 18, 2057
    25 Years 170 Days 16 Hours 9 Minutes 46 ...
    'Planet will be uninhabitable for ...
    December 31, 2049
    • Asteroid Impact. Once a disaster scenario gets the cheesy Hollywood treatment, it's hard to take it seriously. But there is no question that a cosmic interloper will hit Earth, and we won't have to wait millions of years for it to happen.
    • Gamma-ray Burst. If you could watch the sky with gamma-ray vision, you might think you were being stalked by cosmic paparazzi. Once a day or so, you would see a bright flash appear, briefly outshine everything else, then vanish.
    • Collapse of the Vacuum. In the book Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut popularized the idea of "ice-nine," a form of water that is far more stable than the ordinary kind, so it is solid at room temperature.
    • Rogue Black Holes. Our galaxy is full of black holes, collapsed stellar corpses just a dozen miles wide. How full? Tough question. After all, they're called black holes for a reason.
  4. Here's how the world could end—and what we can do about it. Rare cataclysms are hard to study and plan for, but they may be too dangerous to ignore. 14 Jul 2016. By Julia Rosen. Gosses Bluff meteor crater in Australia formed when a 1-kilometer-wide space rock struck Earth 142 million years ago. © Stephen Alvarez/National Geographic Creative. Share:

  5. May 28, 2024 · Learn what the Bible says about the end times and the end of the world, including the rapture, the tribulation, the antichrist, and the millennial reign of Christ. Find out how to prepare for the last days and what to expect from God's judgment and wrath.

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