Blogpost 1: How the World Would End

       Picture you and your family having a picnic in a beautiful park. You hear children laughing on the playground, the chirps of the birds, and the sound of splashes of water from the ducks in the pond. You're playing with your boat by the side of the pond when you suddenly hear a woman screamed really loud, you were about to look where the scream came from, when a really bright light coming from the reflection of the pond catches your attention, you look up then *BOOM* and suddenly you can't see anything, all you can hear are people screaming, children crying, your own thoughts and all you can feel is pain. What happens next? They say when you die, the last organ that may still be working on your body is your hearing organ so whisper everything you want a dead person to know before his/her body completely shuts down.

We can never predict when the world is going to end but because of facts and knowledge from science and continued advancements of technology nowadays it may be possible. From a documentary I've watched in National Geographic about "Impact Events and how it can end the world" scientists have studied that because of the expansion of the universe galaxies tend to collide at each other forming a bigger galaxy and thus called an impact event. An impact event is a scenario where 2 objects in outer space collide or comet, meteor, or asteroid hits the earth’s surface. I have read from an article that astronomers call this group of objects that cause impact as bolides, and when this so-called “bolides” enter the earth its speed raises up to 25,000 miles per hour whereas most of it disintegrate while moving through the earth’s atmosphere. According to scientists bolides carry an enormous force that a single bolide is equal to a thousand of dynamites and when it enter the earth’s atmosphere and hits land it can cause a depression which is later called an impact crater. 
Bolides with a diameter smaller than 13ft actually hits the earth about once a year, but we don’t hear much about them because of the earth’s unoccupied domains and large open oceans.

 From an article I've read by an anonymous author entitled "How a Solar Flare Can End the World" it was said that some Impact events have cause major consequences on the earth and one of the most well known is the Cretaceous-Paleogene Event which happened about 65million years ago the meteor was about 6 miles across when it struck the earth in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. This Impact event that happened in Mexico formed a 110mile wide impact crater which caused the extinction of 75% of plant life including the dinosaurs. Scientists at NASA uses a technology to monitor celestial objects to calculate or foresee another impact event.


So next time you're going to visit a park or go out with your family or friends since these events are imminent or unpreventable you're the one who have to adjust. Readers, cherish everything that may come your way, for today may be the end.. Maybe a picnic in a beautiful park with your family may be your last day with them. We may never know..