Today we review some of the most famous theories about how the world, as we know it, would end.
A New 2000 Effect
The change from 1999 to 2000 was experienced with some concern. Stores sold Y2K emergency kits with non-perishable food before New Year’s Day in 2000 , when many people thought that computers operating government registries, utility systems, banks, and anything that contained some kind of computer chip would crash. before the turn of the year – the so-called millennium mistake – and they would cause apocalyptic chaos.
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the overall outlay was more than $ 300 billion to upgrade computer systems to withstand the supposed millennium bug. While it was not necessary, it did lead to better computer systems.
We are still waiting for something to happen. Will our successors have to deal with this comedy in the change from 2999 to the year 3000?
For a deployment of nuclear weapons
The threat of nuclear war continues to hover over the minds of many centuries, as various countries have the ability to deploy devices so destructive as to end the world as we know it. A nuclear war would cause explosions and deadly radiation, and it would also contaminate food and water. It could also affect air quality and lead to a nuclear winter, which could cause severe cold temperatures and interfere with food production.
Fortunately, conspiracy theories or predictions about how and when the world would end have never been proven to be true until now, although many have caught our attention for their creativity and originality. Many have become the subject of public and pop culture fascination.
Caution !: Planetary Alignment
Eclipses are common in any solar system and therefore, it is understood that, by pure statistical probability, at some point all the visible planets in our solar system could end up aligned. This tessitura is enough to pose a scenario of the end of the world. However, how could it affect us? Not at all demonstrable. Let us remember that these alignments that attract so much attention to some, are the product of the observer’s perspective.
A zombie pandemic
As this Nobbot article comments, ‘The Walking Dead ‘ pandemics could exist, but there is severe epidemiological control and a series of alert and response operations to outbreaks of any type. While it is true that disease has killed more human beings than anything else in the world, beyond wars or natural disasters, there is also some natural evolutionary limit to how a disease can develop. Also, the most contagious viruses tend not to kill, such as measles. Measles is an incredibly contagious virus, but all it can do is produce deadly epidemics, especially among malnourished young children. Fortunately, there is an effective vaccine, with which measles can be controlled and eradicated.
So there couldn’t be a zombie apocalypse? The truth is that from the fictional narrative to the real world, at least in the case of periods of infection and survivalism, there is a long way.
