When will the World come to an end? Notice I did not say "Will the World end?" because that is a given. It is just a matter of when not will. To be honest it is more a case of which will finish first, the world or man kind!

Do not read this and commit suicide. Remember this is just to Open your Minds and nothing more.

An extinction event (also known as: mass extinction; extinction-level event, E.L.E., or biotic crisis) is a sharp decrease in the diversity and abundance of macroscopic life. They occur when the rate of extinction increases with respect to the rate of speciation. Because the majority of diversity and biomass on earth is microbial, and thus difficult to measure, mass extinctions have little effect on the total diversity and abundance of life, but rather affect the easily observed component of the biosphere.

Over 97% of species that ever lived are now extinct, but extinction occurs at an uneven rate. Based on the fossil record, the background rate of extinctions on Earth is about two to five taxonomic families of marine invertebrates and vertebrates every million years. Marine fossils are mostly used to measure extinction rates because of their superior fossil record and stratigraphic range compared to land organisms.

Since life began on Earth, several major mass extinctions have significantly exceeded the background extinction rate. The most recent, the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, occurred 65 million years ago, and has attracted more attention than all others as it marks the extinction of nearly all dinosaur species, which were the dominant animal class of the period. In the past 542 million years there have been five major events when over 50% of animal species died. There probably were mass extinctions in the Achaean and Proterozoic Eons, but before the Phanerozoic there were no animals with hard body parts to leave a significant fossil record.

Estimates of the number of major mass extinctions in the last 540 million years range from as few as five to more than twenty. These differences stem from the threshold chosen for describing an extinction event as "major", and the data chosen to measure past diversity.

Either way it will happen again.

The End of the world will happen, again and again. So why worry about it? This event is out of our control.

At best the human race will become a footnote in some future or Alien archaeological study.

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