Top Ten Worst Things That Could Happen To The World

Earth's been around for 5.6 billion years. Only a matter of time. :(.
The Top Ten
1 World War III

We have so many threats in this world (like Iraq, Syria, and North Korea) and many allies. In the past, people just invaded with guns, which is puny compared to those city destroying nuclear bombs. It can all start with the activation of a detonator. Our main enemy ( North Korea) has nuclear weapons, so we are in danger too. I think we really need to make peace pacts

I think this is probably one of the most realistic things on the options. Let's face it: if this does happen it's over. However, it is worth noting that nuclear weapons actually decrease the chance of this happening because of something called 'mutually assured destruction' basically meaning no one will declare war because they will both be destroyed.

I had all these same fears, feelings and anger after watching "The Day After" on T.V. in '83. I was not quite 10 years old. I was constantly worried any day could be the last, but it never happened. These countries want to rule over someone, and not get schooled in how to rule over debris and ashy shadow people. Either way, make everyone of them count

I think that there are a few countries that WANT to strt World War III because they are abusing other countries. I think that Russia will be a threat and I my great gramdma lives to see world war three she would die of a heart attack! Now. We play those war games on our tablet and what not but what if that was real and you were one of the soldiers fishing?

2 Zombie Apocalypse

In some movies there's world war Z. Which these zombies are mutated of some sort, and they kill whatever is in their way. Then again there's the walking dead, the zombies are fast at the begining. Not mutantly but just normal, as the years pass the zombies start getting slower and slower as their bodies decompose. If this apocalypse happened, I think maybe it would start out as a disease like most movies. Anyways nobody would have a greater chance at surviving then the other. More and more disasters would be happening, people would go crazy, riots would happen, the disease would be spread anywhere or everywhere. Now if it were like world war Z, it's airborne so it would kill mostly 99.9% of humanity. Now this would be a disasterouse thing to happen.

Even though most of us think we are gonna survive, it's probably gonna be the opposite. Most zombie movies and video games show the zombie apocalypse as a disease (like in World War Z and The Last of Us). In a major city, there's no tell what's gonna happen. It would be too late. Airports would spread the disease across the world. City after city would fall. To everyone else surviving, it wouldn't be easy. Supplies and food would be scarce, as everyone would be looting. Riots would occur, killing even more people.

Let's be real here. If a zombie outbreak were to happen, they probably wouldn't even last more than a week. You see in movies how like 4 guys kill hundreds of zombies. Well, how about when there's only a small amount of zombies like there would be at first? People would shoot these undead morons for fun. And don't even get me started on the military. These soldiers and pilots would have a blast shooting these unarmed idiots that are charging at them mindlessly. It would be just like target practice.

Some people will never realize that there will be no zombie apocalypse. They don't realise that everyday, 75% of the human population creates a zombie everyday. They make them pretend to be fine, to be alright. They make them wear masks. The apocalypse has already begun, it's just that no one can see through their masks to tell.

3 Asteroid Hits Earth

Instead of using nuclear bombs to launch at the earth itself, they can be used to destroy large asteroids that can wipe out the earth, also if earth does get hit, then let's hope that ferns and palm trees survive to take over the world then a new humanoid species can take over the world and explore space, visit new planets, and create a huge machine that prevents the end of the universe. Huh?

It doesn't seem too scary and likely at first until you realize that Earth was due for an asteroid strike 20 million year ago! It never happened! So it coul happen at anytime until some hero decides to fire the nations nukes at the asteriod to blast it away from earth

I don't want to end up like the Dinosaurs! Get a spaceship, arm it with missiles, get some satellites for asteroid detection, and BLOW the rockies to BITS!

This is the possible scariest thing that the earth face now! Do you know that there are 10,000 asteroids near the earth and 10 percent of them are 1km above in diameter! -all these are based to NASA

4 World Loses Oxygen For 5 Seconds

To all the clueless people that think everyone would "explode" or "boil", your wrong. If the Earth lost all oxygen for 5 seconds everyone would pretty much be fine, your ear drums could implode possibly, but you would basically just lose consciousness until the earth was reoxygenized and repressurized. We wouldn't freeze either, although space is typically very cold, the release of body heat is not very fast. And for the stubborn people that refuse to believe me, you may read about it yourself on the NASA website.

Everybody at the beach would immediately get sunburns, the daytime sky would get dark, all pieces of untreated metal would instantly spot weld to each other, the earth's crust would crumble, everyone's inner ear would explode, every building made of concrete would turn to dust, every living cell would explode in a haze of hydrogen gas, and the oceans would evaporate and blend into space.

Pretty scary stuff!

The sky wouldn't turn dark because nitrogen creates the blue sky, trees absorb co2 and emit oxygen. Your ears will probably implode, you can hold your breath for 5 seconds unless your a baby, some compounds and elements will act strange, and the air pressure will drop,

Come on if this happens we would be more than ok, because a human can keep his breath for at least 10 seconds, and can live without air for almost five minutes so it is not that much of a danger and it's also highly unlikely right now because there are organisms that actually breath dioxide carbon and give us oxygen ( even trees breath oxygen so I'm not talking about them).

5 The Sun Explodes

This will be the final end of Earth after a couple billion years. But the sun won't exactly explode. After the sun uses most of its hydrogen up, it will become a red giant. This will make Earth uninhabitable for any living thing, even heat loving microbes. Hopefully, the human race (if its still living) will develop technology to get to an Earth like planet, or Europa and Titan, potentially habitable moons that would be warm enough after the sun expands.

Lets make a cartoon about that time. LIGHTS CAMERA ACTION!

The weather Forcast for next week, the sun will turn into the red giant. Residents must move out of earth. BAD NEWS: Not all of us want to go with us in the starships GOOD NEWS: we have enough supply for our starship. Bring all animals with you. Day 2. The fountain of Youth is finished in the ship <- check animals <- check Green house <- check. BAD/GOOD NEWS: what if we run out of food asked: The president? We have animals, gardens and trees. Day 3. 1000 people are in the ship. Earth's T-score is dropping said the Weather man. We got 4 more days until our earth hits the Sun said The President. Day 4. 1000 more people entered the ship. Uh oh said the Weather Man! Aliens! But, the aliens wanted to help them, they are gonna put more spices in the ship and energy to stay up in space. Day 5. Aliens hired more aliens to help, And 1000 more people got on the ship. And sadly The rest of the 7 thousand people wanted to ...more

If earth is gonna be inside the sun we should act fast if we were living on that year, lets say 5 years before it happens, we would make a starship and live in space, I wouldn't live in other planets. those would die too. 12 billion years. The Universe its self will end. It will be dark and really cold. But the good news: when earth dies GOD will make a new heaven and earth. at 1.1 billion years. Earth's oceans will boil away and dries up. 3.3 billion years Earth is too hot and dry for humans and other living things and everything dies. This could lead Eco disaster, well its gonna anyway. later on Earth is really fiery and hot. and oceans were gone. later like 1000 billion years, the universe will end.

The sun is a star and like all stars in the galaxies has a limited lifetime. It won't actually explode but it will lose its energy at a given time to convert hydrogen into helium ( the source of the sun energy ). This will stop life as we know in our galaxy.

6 Nuclear War

Terrifying, because if it was happening in every part of the world, there'd be no hope of survival. If the sun blows up or there's a black hole, we all die in a millisecond, painlessly, and that's the end of that. With a different type of war or zombies, lots of people would die, but there would still be hope for survival. With a nuclear war, it would be impossible to survive. You could not avoid a nuclear blast. Even if you did, you would end up dying a slow painful death from radiation poisoning, which you would get very quickly. You would be on your deathbed for years, not even able to fight from being so sick. If there was an all-out nuclear war where every country was involved, we'd all be in for a horrible fate.

I'm going with Nuclear War because the list is the top ten worst things that COULD happen to the world. Zombie apocalypse, the sun exploding, the oxygen disappearing, and black holes hitting the planet are all statistical or scientific impossibilities. Aliens would have to come here from another solar system, which is absurdly expensive in terms of energy expenditure even if they have the tech to do it (Alcubiere drives or wormholes or generation ships, all absurdly expensive.) There's nothing here worth the effort. A robot take over might be possible 150 years from now, but we're nowhere near sophisticated enough AI for it to be possible. What's left is this, supervolcanos, asteroid strikes, and WW3. Supervolcanos and asteroid strikes would devastate a large part of the world, but not all of it (which a nuclear war would), and WW3, while a terrifying proposition, doesn't necessarily have to be nuclear. And all three of those are far less likely than a nuclear war right now.

You can probably survive the bomb if you're at least 30 miles from a major city, underground in a shelter, and wearing a hazmat suit, but after that, the world would be inhabitable. Temperatures with dramatically cool, with radioactive snow falling on the ground. There would be no safe food or water or even air globally.

If the bombs don't kill you... The Radiation will.
You can't see Radiation, you can't hear it, you can't smell it, and you can't even feel it.
Animals may mutate, all water will become irradiated, the world will be inhospitable.

7 Black Hole

We don't know when the black hole will come. There are millions of black holes in the universe. Someday 1 could join our galaxy, see the black hole is so hard to see. Black hole will suck everything in its path, even the sun. Should be 1

This might or might not happen, after all we don't know much about black holes and the few things we know are just theories, so it's a bit unlikely to die because of it.

If the solar system got inside one. The sky would be different.

There all-ready is a black hole somewhere in the universe.

8 Super Volcano

This isn't a normal type of volcano. In the USA, there is a super volcano, that you probably heard of: Yellowstone, although there are other super volcanoes across the world, in places like Japan. Instead of lava reaching only a few miles, lava flows from a super volcano would reach hundreds of miles away. The pyroclastic clouds would engulf cities as far as Seattle and St. Louis. Even if areas within hundreds of miles would be destroyed, it doesn't stop there. There would be global darkness for years. Weather systems would be interrupted, including the monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean, causing massive famines. The temperature would fall, and we would lose all of the Sun's light. Every crop would just die, and we would starve to death. There would be ash in the air, choking all animals. The ash would ground planes, take down the electricity, and cause buildings thousands of miles away to collapse. And Yellowstone is becoming unstable, with roads in the park melting...

I don't think any of you understand how dangerous a super volcano can be. The top half of the world would be plunged into darkness because of the massive ash clouds. Tempratures would drop, food wouldn't grow, acid rain would fall. People would die. Yellowstone park is a super volcano. And it is overdue for an eruption. Scientists think that the magma chamber won't be full enough for an eruption for another 2000 years. Lets hope so.

Millions if not billions would die from the eruption alone. Then hundreds of tons of ash would be tossed into the sky blocking the sun leading to years of darkness, famine, and breathing would be much more difficult. Not exactly a happy scenario.

CN121, it will most likely erupt. At the end of school, we learned about famous volcanoes. It is expected to erupt in about 1000 years, but there is a chance it won't erupt. It will make 2/3 of the Earth uninhabitable. I only live a couple hours away from it.

9 No Oxygen for 24 Hours

We will all day if this would happen, but there are organisms that breath carbone dioxide and create oxygen so humans might not die, but if they do these organisms would evolve and become humans that breath carbone dioxide.

I love how no Oxygen for 24 hours is lower than No Oxygen for 5 seconds. I mean, no Oxygen for several hours would kill thousands more than 5 seconds. Just Saying.

Get a oxygen mask! Or hold your breath for a really long time.

If all of us couldn't breath for a day we all would die.

10 Aliens Take Over

Well this depends on a series of factors. I guarantee you that there are other life forms elsewhere in the universe. The real questions are are they hostile and why would they want to attack us. If they are hostile than they would presumably have a very war like culture. Therefore they would be fighting against each other on their own world, which would be divided into many factions like our own. If this was true than if one of the alien nations were to attack the earth, we would only have to fight against a fraction of their entire civilization. If they were somehow united under a race wide government and had a very imperialistic attitude towards other intelligent races, much like the late 19th century Europeans, than why would they want to attack us. Most precious metals and other valuable substances, including water, are common throughout many solar systems in the universe. So why would they want to go through all the trouble of invading a planet with a somewhat advanced society ...more

It might not be so bad after all, if the aliens are good then we might live together, if they are evil then one of us will die, if they are passive it will be all ok, if they want to research then we'll need to know their motives first.

What if aliens are friendly aliens, whom the humans agree to let them take over in order to restore balance and peace to this once beautiful planet? I wouldn't mind that at all.

UFO aims death ray at earth. Fires. Everybody turns to dust. Aliens get to drink our water while sweeping up 7 billion piles of ashes. Quick apocalypse.

The Contenders
11 Robot Take Over

Only in a million years, because now we don't have many robots that act by themselves, and even those that do exist are not powerful enough to wipe out the human race.

That's true humans are so dumb that they could easily accidentally let robots take over.

Not hard to just blow a few EMP's, which will most likely fry all robots.

Yes. Ever heard of the movie iRobot? That could be the possible future for humans.

12 The Illuminati Takes Over

Don't they by definition already rule the world? I thought they are a secret organisation that rules the world and everything important that happens is plotted by illuminati.

When this happens people will die in the billions as they start the population control programs. Others will be put in FEMA camps (similar to concentration camps).

This could happen if that secret video is not secret anymore and belive me, that video is made by the Illuminati.

If we know a lot about the Illuminatti right now, then this means the third world war, if we don't then we're screwed.

13 Everybody Commits Suicide

I have had suicidal thoughts in the past. Even today, I still think a lot about death and suicide. I write suicide stories and poems. I wonder if there is really a point to life. If there is, tell me. Is life worthless? Is there anything good that ever comes out of it? It's only a matter of time before I begin to think about it myself. I already have. My fear of death (Thanatophobia) is the only thing that could baracade my plans...

Okay, this one is retarded. It would be nearly impossible to coordinate everyone to commit suicide before any more children are born. Illuminati Domination is more likely than this. Unless, of course, this is the Illuminati's plan for world domination.

Imagine how sad it would be to see everyone you know or love just commit suicide and also knowing that everyone else around the world are killing themselves. That would be sad.

Ok, this might actually be a good end because there would be no humans to polute the world any more, so it would be a happy ending for animals sice we wouldn't kill them any more.

14 Solar Flare

Who was reading the Maze Runner series?

We'd all be unprotected from the Sun's radiation, and there would be large EMPs causing every electronic device to be fried

This will not kill us, the atmosphere was created to defend earth from these

15 Gamma Ray Burst

At least it gives you warning before it happens first you see a bright flash in the sky, then its completely clear. then it Explodes then the planet is no more! but yeah this should be worst

If this happened we would all die immediately as it hit. Nothing could or can survive these

Or even worse... Cosmic Waves

What laugh out loud

16 Supernova

The world MIGHT have been created by a supernova, but it's only a theory like many others, but we do know that a supernova would destroy our galaxy and create a black hole, but it would happen only after the Sun has lost all of its energy.

By the time there is a supernova the Earth would already have been engulfed by the Sun millions of years before.

It's too far away but considering the Gamma Rays, yes!

Wasn't the world created by a supernova?

17 Donald Trump Getting Elected

Worst of all it has already happened.

I love this website! So true!

Please don't hate me for this but I actually like him, what good has Joe Biden done fore us anyways

Sadly this happened

18 Red Star Comes Towards Our Galaxy Burning Every Planet

The Sun would be included in getting burned but before we melted to death without the sun we would burn up pretty quickly.

It will before the sun starts dieng out but it would be our sun, just not really moving to the planets

19 Blackout While an Asteroid Is About to Hit Earth

This would make the best movie ever.

No worries; it's tiny!

U couldn't see it

20 Water Shortage

I love how people are saying this is unlikely but they don't think it's unlikely for all the oxygen on the earth to magically disappear for 24-hours.

Water shortage is a real thing. There are plenty of scientists that think that wars in the future will not be over oil. They will be fighting for water.

This is happening here in California. It sucks because I live there.

Very unlikely and it might happen only if aliens take over Earth.

Well first off this is true but there are a million Sources Ice, Rocks, Water, Peppers, stuff like that so if would be really not easy for the earth to run out of water unless the earth became a baby sun or some shiet

21 Big Crunch

Eventually, expansion of the universe stops and it shrinks down until there is NO universal objects remaining (and that includes the whole solar system).

I thinkthis sounds somewhat acceptable and possible in the same way.

22 The World Starts to Break In Half Until It's Gone

Planets that are small but have heavy gravity will likely to break apart

We will all die

23 Every Country Fell and Turned Into a Huge River

Aren't we basically already in a big giant river called "the Ocean"?

24 Ghosts Take Over

Yea this one is not even a little realistic.

This can't happen. Ghosts are fake.

We have gone too far on this list.

25 Blackout For 1000 years

We would survive this, although the western world would collapse third world countries would rise out of the chaos as major powers.

The big freeze occurs first and then this happens (although the blackout is eternal).

Flashlights are the key.

I can't last that long with a blackout plus we would all be dead by the time the blackout finishes

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