The World is Going to End?

Hell yea it is. That much can be told by looking back at both history and prehistory.
Is it going to end in 2012? Incredibly unlikely. How about 2050? Wrong once again.
For all those who truly worry themselves with thoughts of a coming Armageddon are wasting precious time and energy on something that will never occur. At least not in their lifetime.

The Earth will end long after life has taken its last breath on humanities place of origin. If humanity still yet exists, the climate will have reached a point where we will have to live in artificially maintained areas, or we will have moved on to live on separate celestial bodies throughout the Milky Way galaxy, and even, perhaps, beyond.
Despite this, there is the chance that humanity will simply cease its outward expansion, and will die when other life on Earth dies as well. I honestly have no opinion on to which it will be. It's hard to judge when humanity as a whole is only 200,000 years old... which is an incredibly long time to us, but simply a spec considering the age of the universe as a whole (roughly 13.75 billion years old). Whether we'll simply be a 'light-on, light-off' unremarkable occurrence within the eyes of the much bigger picture, is really up to us and to what occurs to the universe as a whole.

A friend of mine, after reading my post The Wonders of Eternal Infinity, believes that it's better if we simply don't indulge ourselves with constant thoughts of the unknown: "Well I haven't watched the video however one thing you have to consider is what surrounds the earth is huge, and much of it just too far away to bother with. We have our confined space that we can stretch with space travel is we're part of the elite who get to do this though I think it's been proven that our bodies aren't made for space necessarily. We have our world and it's all we have. The scale that things interact with in space on a planetary and what ever term you would use to describe stars is huge in comparison to us but because we don't experience that up close, we only observe, the only thing we have to scale is what we have. Last time I checked the space per square unit we have was depleting though the surface of the planet is still large compared to our small selves."
Basically what he's saying is that it's obvious that humanity wasn't built for extension into space, and he would be absolutely right. But one could argue that humanity wasn't built to create cities, corporations, or religions. One could argue that humanity wasn't built to look at the stars and wonder; but we do, and we've expanded across this globe of ours at an extreme rate, and this planet isn't eternal nor infinite like some speculate the universe may be. Any other planet we may decide to inhabit after the death of planet Earth will also have a finite amount of time to exist, so if humanity is going to exist for trillions of years in some form or another, we both need to spread out throughout the universe, as well as eventually move from place to place every few hundred million years. Whether other inhabitable planets are composed of the same elements as Earth is, no one knows at this point; but in my personal opinion, I'd have to say it's highly likely, as none of the other celestial bodies we have encountered are made out of any abnormal material we've never encountered before. I'm sure there are abnormal combinations of previously encountered materials, but as I said, nothing over-the-top different.

I can certainly see that friend of mines point, as I'm just as aware as any other person that I can't just spontaneously decide I would like to traverse the universe, let alone our galaxy or solar system. Not even our professionals are that far down the line at this point in our history, and it's debatable as to whether any sort of extraterrestrial life has advanced to such a point.

I may not be around to see humanity truly fly as high as it can, but someone I'm related to will, if it ever really happens at all, which seems quite likely judging by the speed at which technological advances are being made.

Maybe they'll read this article a thousand years from now, and will murmur under their breath, "Kyran, we did it."