Okay, so by 2040: bananas are going to be extinct, the fish industry will have collapsed, we will be completely out of oil, fresh uncontaminated water will be extremely scarce, attempts to reduce global warming will have failed at the rate things are moving now, AND robots will be becoming self aware...
But that doesn't mean shit, because the world's ending much sooner than that. November 2007, to be exact. That is the month that the Large Haldron Collider in Europe will be switched on, either creating a huge step forward in science or...the destruction of the Earth and possibly the universe.
Wiki:Large Haldron Collider
Among the four possible world-ending outcomes of turning this thing on are the creation of a stable black hole and the triggering of a transition into a different quantum mechanical vacuum.
Really I just thought that the very existence of a machine that could theoretically destroy the universe pretty cool/scary. And if the world's going to end, I'd like it to be instant and all-enveloping, as these outcomes would seem to be. Sadly the actually probability of that occurring from this machine is quite miniscule. Looks like we're stuck with starvation, war, shitty weather, and robot uprisings.
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