What's up top 10 fam hope you’re having an awesome day, Im your host Ayman Hasan and
welcome back to another video.
So we’re being bombarded with information about climate change and how the world is
going to end because of it and hello this is not new information this is has been the
situation for a long ass time.
Since the kyoto protocol, since the paris agreement, ever since we started ruining the
planet.
The call to action has been there for a while.
But im glad its getting the attention it deserves now more than ever.
But with all that in mind, these are the Top 10 Scary Ways The World Might End In 50 Years.
Starting us off with number 10 is The Magnetic Field Pt 1.
Time for Professor Ayman to come out.
So if youre unaware, the earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that extends into space.
This magnetic field is created because the flowing of liquid metal to the outer core
creates electric currents and as the earth spins on its axis those currents form a magnetic
field.
Now every couple of hundred thousand years this magnetic field dwindles to basically
nothing for about a century and then reappears when the north and south pole flip.
Not literally flip, but our magnetic north pole is actually located in the actual south
pole and vice versa.
Now the last reversal happened about 780,000 years ago so we’re basically overdue for
another one.
But now the strength of the field is 5% weaker than its been before which is worrying.
Our magnetic field deflects particle storms and cosmic rays from the sun as well as other
subatomic particles from space.
Without that protection the particles would hit our atmosphere, eroding the already weak
ozone layer.
On top of that a lot of animals navigate magnetically so this reversal could cause serious ecological
disturbance.
Coming in at number 9 is The Magnetic Field Pt 2.
Thankfully ive hit you with the science already so i can just go straight into it.
So the inner core of the earth is a solid ball of metal, the outer core is a moving
shell of liquid iron and nickel as i previously mentioned.
Thats what creates our giant electric dynamo of a magnetosphere.
But as ive mentioned in other videos, we’re also overdue an ice age since the earth goes
through warm and cold cycles.
Scientists have claimed that upcoming changes in the suns activity could cause temperatures
on earth to plunge from 2020 to 2050.
Now add that to the magnetic reversal, and the weakening of the magnetosphere thats gonna
add to the earth getting colder.
The atmosphere is what reflects heat particles back to earth and keeps it warm, if that gets
weaker, we get colder.
And if an impending ice age is coming anyway we’re gonna be freezing.
And, hypothetically what if that causes the core to cool and us to lose the magnetosphere
altogether?
We would then lose all protection from solar winds and our atmosphere would just get blasted
into space.
Thats exactly what happened to Mars billions of years ago and now its lifeless.
At number 8 we have Engineered Disease.
Back at the end of 2011 major controversy erupted when people found out that researchers
had engineered a mutant version of bird flu that could be passed on through ferrets or
simply in the air.
Why on earth are we out here trynig to purposefully create diseases that we had a hard time fighting
off the first time?
Like why are we like this people.
Lets not be our own demise shall we?
The last study on the new version of the H5N1 virus showed that it literally only takes
5 mutations in the virus in order for it to be spread through airborne droplets between
humans or ferrets.
Thankfully the US National Security Advisory Board for Biosecurity made sure the details
of the study were withheld so they dont fall into the wrong hands.
But if one group of researchers can achieve that god know what others groups could achieve.
What if another deadly engineered disease was created elsewhere and it accidentally
or very much intentionally got released?
Global panic.
Filling our number 7 slot are Gamma Ray Bursts.
Aka one of the most powerful phenomena in the entire universe.
Now most are caused as a result of massive starts collapsing when they die.
One single short gamma ray blast can emit more energy than the sun would over the course
of its whole life.
Like can we take in how critical that is.
The energy in a single blast has the potential and power to eradicate our entire ozone layer,
allowing dangerous ass UV light to pour in and trigger rapid global cooling.
Its so dangerous that many even think a gamma ray burst pointed at the earth couldve been
the reason that dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago.
Like my red alert is going off right now.
Now at number 6 is Divine Intervention.
Gotta love it, gotta have it.
Every religious text has some sort of apocalyptic prophecy, Judaism has the Book of Daniel,
Islam has the coming of the Mahdi, Christianity has the book of Revelation, zoroastrianism
has the countdown ot the third son of Zoroaster.
Like its been written since 5ever and despite interpretations and stories varying its still
present.
God is meant to intervene and bring history and the world to an end.
Now thats all well and good for whenever it may happen but unfortunately there are a lot
of doomsday cults whod rather take it holy retribution into their own hands.
For example back in 1995 the members of the Aum Shinri Kyo (oohm shinee ko) sect set off
sarin (saa-rin) nerve gas in a subway station in Tokyo that killed 12 people and injured
5000 plus.
Had the group been armed with something more lethal like a nuclear weapon or something
nanotechnological - the damage they and other groups like them could cause would be unimaginable.
Coming in at number 5 is Fungal Disease.
Now sure a bacterial epidemic of some kind is quite scary and possible but its a fungal
threat that is the real risk here.
Back in 2013, for example, an infection originating from the chytrid fungus (ky-trid) made its
way through amphibians and wiped out the majority of frogs in the US. if something like that
occurred with humans we’d be absolutely screwed.
Because the thing is, bacterial infections in humans are deadly too but we have a lot
of research on them, a lot of antibiotics, we have the knowledge needed to fight them.
But we know a lot less about treating fungal infections and so if a new fungus appeared
and an epidemic swept through the world, who knows if we could stop it in time.
At number 4 are Black Holes.
I had to mention it you guys, i know they make an appearance in basically every end
of the world video but its also for a reason.
Yknow other than the fact its hollywoods second favourite form of planet death.
They are still mostly a mystery to us, we know alot about them but we also dont know
everything we dont know if you get me.
For one we dont even know why theyre so dense to the point light cant even escape them.
Scientists specialising in black hole research believe that recoiled blakck holes are out
there just harmlessly wandering through space exactly like a rogue planet.
But theyre not harmless thats thing.
It would be harmless if it passed through our solar system and passed the earth like
hi how ya doing but imma be over there.
But if the black hole passing thorugh was bigger than the moon for example, which is
likely, that would be problematic.
If even light cant escape dyu think earth would be able to?
Most definitely not.
We’re getting sucked in there asap rocky.
With asap rocky.
Our atoms will stretch and then pull apart completely or we might end up in a new universe
completely who knows.
Filling our number 3 slot is The Rogue Planet Pt 1.
Now Rogue Planets are worlds that that got kicked out from their own solar systems during
formation.
Savage to be honest.
But not really since its such a common occurrence, its estimated that rogue planet actually outnumber
stars in the Milky Way by like 100,000 to one.
But these rogue planets have no set route for orbit so theyre just kind of travelling
freely.
So its very plausible that a drifting rogue planet could straight up hit us.
And youd that that would never happen but it did already.
4.5 billion years ago a small planet hit a larger planet in the solar system and thus
the earth and moon were born.
A new hit could again send debris flying all over the solar system and melt the earth.
A new planet would come after that and would eventually cool down but who knows if it would
be habitable.
And we’d be dead by then anyway so its not like we could inhabit it.
Now at number 2 is The Rogue Planet Pt 2.
Now carrying on from that, instead of a rogue planet drifting into the solar system and
hitting earth, it could easily just drift in and destabilise the earth.
Hypothetically if a world large enough drifts close enough to us it coudld actually kick
us out of the solar system altogether or knock us into to Mercury or Venus.
Which again, not ideal.
If we get kicked out and become our own rogue planet the earth would essentially become
an ice ball.
Either that or a significant gravitational change could make our seasons extreme and
deadly going between ice age level cold and actual melting point hot.
And i doubt any of us have the capacity to survive that.
And finally at number 1 is Mass Instability.
Now as our approach to physical health and disease has improved drastically, the same
cant be said for mental health.
Yeah our attitude towards it has definitely changed for the better but overall mental
health is getting worse.
According to the World Health Organisation 500 million people suffer from some sort of
psychological disorder.
Already the number of people over 65 are disproportionately liekly to commit suicide and those are elderly
people, not even including the people my age who are doing it on a daily basis.
Its estimated that by next year depression will be the second leading cause of death
right behind cardiovascular disease.
That blows my mind but it also doesnt, as someone with depression i completely get it
but im just how have we not found better ways to treat ourselves.
The fact that the human lifespan is getting longer also intensifies the problem since
we’ll have even more years to experience these feelings.
Gregory Stock a biophysicist at the University of California claims medical advances will
soon let people live to 200 or older.
200 years of depression or schizophrenia, or psychosis seems like a curse not a blessing.
200 years of overloading your senses with these feelings could lead to a new kind of
insanity that we’ve never seen before.
And thats it for todays video guys!
Morbid i know, scary i know, but she still cute doe.
Nah im kidding lemme know which way on the list scares you the most right now.
I think for me itd be mass instability or the gamma ray burst like im still not over
that.
As always im your host Ayman Hasan and ill catch you in the next one.
Byee.