Stephen Petranek: 10 ways the world could end

http://www.ted.com How might the world end? Stephen Petranek lays out the challenges that face us in the drive to preserve the human race. Will we be wiped out by an asteroid? Eco-collapse? How about a particle collider gone wild?

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[CallOfDominick]

He forgot the mutated cockroaches who ride frogs

I saw it on television and television NEVER LIES!!!

[rollercoasterider]

woah i just searched "ways the world could end" and i got 666,000 responses!!!! OMFG!!!! WE"RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!

*runs out of room, screaming hystarically*

jk lol

[damianfloyd1129]

This video went viral on Tarawa Atoll

[spaik007]

by, the world ending i am guessing he means human life stop existing?

i could listen to this for hours :)

[spaik007]

But every time we imagine aliens we give them human nature, maybe a species that is more intelligent than ours will be more peaceful, and maybe they wont have the need of invading for resources if they were a more intelligent species? maybe they would have solved that problem before figuring out how to travel between solar systems, or before it would be neccesary to go to war. sorry for my grammar, swedish

[spaik007]

question: if you had mental health insurance, would the number of depressed people decrease?

[christo930]

He forgot the biggest and most likely event, a nuclear war.

[vitaminsandstds]

Successful troll

[CatFlashBlue]

The best part, this makes me almost cry. He said just after 5:35 "we don't really have mental health insurance". I'm sorry if this is off topic, but, it means a lot to me. I am transgender, (one who wants to change sex) and to get sex reassignment surgery I have to pay in full, most likely, because it's not a physical medical problem. My body functions physically well, and the insurance companies don't stop to think of the tiring nightmare I live in mentally. I'm glad someone else noticed that.

[leonflx56]

@2meorme yes we all know how many likes there are wer can read