20 ways the Earth could end

[Saint in Paradise]

Oopps I mean 10 not 20

 

http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/08-09/qq-2008-12-06.html

 

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[Master Bates]

Eaten by a giant marshmallow.

[Jillyanne]

Still, soon be christmas.

[Master Bates]

The pictures where taken in the Inuit community of Qaanaaq, about 800 miles from the North Pole, when the apocalyptic cloud colouring began over Inglefield Bay.

 

An elderly Inuit hunter said he had never seen such a sky before in all his life... the end... is nigh...

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1090829/The-picture-perfect-storm-Photographs-capture-terrifying-beauty-clouds-gathering-Gree/index.html

 

 

 

[Saint in Paradise]

Still, soon be christmas.

 

Speaking of Christmas here is a recipe for bisquits

 

Ingredients:

1 cup plain flour

¼ cup cocoa

110g soft butter

¼ cup caster sugar

 

 

Method:

 

Preheat oven to 170°C. Sift flour and cocoa into a mixing bowl and use your fingers to rub in the soft butter until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add the sugar and bring the whole mixture together, using your hands, to form a stiff dough; it should just come together into a ball.

 

Place half the dough between 2 sheets of baking paper and, using a rolling pin, roll out to a thickness of about 5mm. Remove top sheet of baking paper and cut dough into Christmas shapes such as stars, angels and trees. If you want to hang the biscuits on your Christmas tree, use a skewer or the pointy end of a small icing nozzle to make a small hole just below the top of the biscuit for the ribbon. (Make sure it is big enough to thread the ribbon through.) Carefully place the biscuit shapes on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Repeat this process with the second half of the dough. Any leftover dough can be re-rolled and cut into more shapes.

 

Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the biscuits move on the baking tray when the tray is gently shifted from side to side. Remove the tray from the oven, leave the biscuits on the tray for 3-4 minutes. Transfer to a rack to cool completely.

 

When cold, ice the biscuits with white icing. Decorate with silver cachous and thread with ribbon if they’re being used for decorations. If not using to decorate the Christmas tree, store in a sealed plastic container or tin.

 

Cook’s tips

These biscuits can be made without cocoa: just substitute plain flour for the cocoa.

 

For icing, mix 75g sifted icing sugar with 1-2 Tbsp boiling water. Instead of icing, you could decorate the biscuits with silver cachous before baking.

 

 

From Taste magazine, December 2007.

 

Some more ideas

 

http://www.taste.co.nz/tastes-complete-christmas-guide/christmas-baking-gifts.aspx

Edited 11 December, 2008 by Saint in Paradise

[Mole]

I don´t know about the world ending, but i predict within our lifetimes a Tsunamis will obliterate coastal regions of western Europe (including Southampton).

 

The Volcano onLa Palma is overdue an eruption and when it happens half the island is predicted to fall offthe continental shelf making the Boxing day tsunamis look like a ripple.

 

I´ll be alright though jack.

[Scummer]

I don´t know about the world ending, but i predict within our lifetimes a Tsunamis will obliterate coastal regions of western Europe (including Southampton).

 

Wouldn't the Isle of Wight take the brunt of it? I'd have thought Portsmouth and Southampton would be ok.

 

Edit: In fact, looking at a map, I can't see that any tsunami caused by events in the Canaries would come anywhere near us. I did hear in the past that it would hit the East coast of America.

Edited 11 December, 2008 by Scummer

[St Landrew]

I don´t know about the world ending, but i predict within our lifetimes a Tsunamis will obliterate coastal regions of western Europe (including Southampton).

 

The Volcano onLa Palma is overdue an eruption and when it happens half the island is predicted to fall offthe continental shelf making the Boxing day tsunamis look like a ripple.

 

I´ll be alright though jack.

 

Just as long as they it doesn't happen within the next 5 years. Got to give me that time to get my boat and ride out the tidal wave.

 

Tbh, the chances are the Earth will live on in its own way for many hundreds of thousands/millions of years. Top predators will come and go, and we'll have been long gone. After all, we wouldn't be worried about the Earth at all if it wasn't about us trying to save our own skins in the process.

[Robsk II]

Stanley, an event of that magnitude would have to be a truly colossal mega-tsunami. There are things that can cause these, but Southampton itself wouldn't be in the direct route of one, though naturally would be likely to be affected.

 

I do wonder about the survival of the species. Earth will someday surely be doomed, for humans, for whatever reason. I think it depends on whether we do ever get to travel in space before this.

[Arizona]

The pictures where taken in the Inuit community of Qaanaaq, about 800 miles from the North Pole, when the apocalyptic cloud colouring began over Inglefield Bay.

 

An elderly Inuit hunter said he had never seen such a sky before in all his life... the end... is nigh...

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1090829/The-picture-perfect-storm-Photographs-capture-terrifying-beauty-clouds-gathering-Gree/index.html

 

 

 

 

Looks a lot like clustered lenticular clouds caused by mountain wave to me.

[Master Bates]

Mammatus

 

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004hastings-mammatus.html

[keithd]

Mammatus

 

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004hastings-mammatus.html

 

shotophoppage of the highest order?! Shirley?

[Arizona]

Mammatus

 

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004hastings-mammatus.html

 

So called because it looks like a load of tits hanging from the cloud.

 

Could be, I'm no meteorologist, but that looks like a definite wave shape over the left of that ridge behind the water. Doesn't exactly look like your avatar either.

 

Proper mammatus

 

[CabbageFace]

Take that will end the world.