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[[File:Rapture.jpg|frame|Aw man, I missed it.]]
{{quote|''Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. But of that day or that hour knoweth no one, not even the angels in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.''|[[The Bible/Source/Mark|Mark]] 13:31-33 (American Standard translation)}}
So one might propose that if all the movies, [[Video Games]] and other media depicting the world's destruction were correct, we'd be seeing the world ending at least once a week, and ''especially'' on dates that appear numerically significant.
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For more information on fictional world history, see [http://www.themovietimeline.com/ The Movie Timeline].
=== The Earth has already been destroyed on ===
* '''Circa 150,000 BC''':
▲* '''Circa 150,000 BC''': ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' - [[Robot War]] (different "Earth")
* '''1911''': ''[[Doctor Who]]'' - desolated by the godlike Osirian Sutekh in an alternate timeline and in orbit around a dead sun. (If you want to be technical, it could have been anywhere between 1911 and 1980)
* '''18 Aug 1951''': ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' - The Trickster manifesting himself through a weak point in spacetime in an alternate timeline.
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=== People in [[Real Life]] think the Earth has been/will be destroyed on ===
* '''Somewhere between 30 - 100AD:''' early Christians believed that the end of the world would happen within their lifetime, due to a "cryptic" statement from Jesus that his followers would "not taste death" before the second coming of Christ.
* '''1033 AD''' Many Christians of the time believed that Christ would come 1000 years after his death (even though this is probably not even the right year for that).
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* '''01 Jan 2000''': Experts predicted anything from mild inconvenience to the collapse of society as the [[Y 2 K]] bug (allegedly) crippled computers worldwide by confusing the year 1900 with the year 2000. This was also a popular day for apocalyptic cults to think the world would end.
* '''May 5, 2000''': According to the 1994 telecast of ''Ancient Prophecies'', the Great Pyramid predicted the end of the world on this date.
** A book called ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130616110410/http://www.baproducts.com/552000.htm 5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster]'' predicted that an [[When the Planets Align|alignment of 5 planets]] would cause worldwide catastrophe.
* '''[[Number of the Beast|06 Jun 2006]]''': Also a popular date for cults to think the world would end.
* '''January 19–20, 2008''': A small group of people on the [[GameFAQs]]' Paranormal/Conspiracy Board believed that a giant meteor was going to destroy Earth on either the 19th or 20th. Considering the source it's not all too surprising that we lived to see the 21st.
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* '''in 1 billion years''': Temperatures on Earth become too hot to support life.
* '''in 5 billion years''': When the Sun is expected to turn into a red giant, possibly engulfing Earth in the process, before finally becoming a white dwarf and fading away.
=== May Happen At Any Moment ===
* ''[[Left Behind]]'' tells us the rapture will happen "tomorrow" and it's pretty much all downhill from there for a good seven years, [[Asterix|but as we all know, tomorrow never comes!]]
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** Worst case scenario? The whole world dies from volcanic ash. Ouch.
* Despite the introduction of nuclear weapons non-proliferation treaties (say that five times fast), enough live/active nuclear weapons still exist to wipe out the entire human race, depending on when they're dropped. We just can't take them apart as fast as we made them.
* A massive solar storm hits us with a huge [[EMP|mass of charged particles]], which interact with the Earth's magnetic field, sending huge currents along high voltage power cables, saturating transformer cores and melting them... all across the globe. The last time this happened - the [[w:Solar storm of 1859|Carrington Event]] in 1859 - the entire telegraph system in Europe and North America was taken offline. We're even more dependent on telecommunications now. Repairs could take months, during which access to food and water becomes a problem since so much of the developed world's infrastructure depends on electricity. The USA and Canada might even become
=== May ALREADY have happened ===
* Scientists trying to discover what 'time' actually is, have come up with a number of theories, one of which is that at any moment time could just stop, and the entire universe will be stuck in one final moment for eternity.
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