The World Comes to an End

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"251 million years ago a mammoth undersea methane bubble caused massive explosions, poisoned the atmosphere and destroyed more than 96 percent of all life on Earth. Experts agree that what is known as the Permian extinction event was the greatest mass extinction event in the history of the world.

Those subterranean seas of methane virtually reshaped the planet when they explosively blew from deep beneath the waters of what is today called the Gulf of Mexico.

Now, worried scientists are increasingly concerned the same series of catastrophic events that led to worldwide death back then may be happening again, and no known technology can stop it."

In 2010, the legendary Deepwater Horizon catastrophe began. A huge outcry emanated at the devastating environmental impact the spill would turn out to have. Little did the human race know that the oil spill would trigger a sequence of events that would lead to the demise of their entire species.

Large fissures in the ocean were known to secrete humongous amounts of frozen methane. This was not thought to be an issue, because for an extinction event like the Permian extinction to occur, the methane would need to be melted. But what no one took into account was the fact that the oil gushing out of the Deepwater Horizon drill was at a temperature of something around 500 degrees, slowly melting the methane.

The methane bubbles burst in sporadic turn, one after another. Again and again. By the year 2012, all of humanity is thought to have been wiped out.

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This is real science by the way.
Well, real, incredibly paraphrased science.
http://www.helium.com/items/1882339-doo ... ling-event

The scariest part is by far
"Most experts in the know, however, agree that if the world-changing event does occur it will happen suddenly and within the next 6 months."

I don't want to dieeeeee in the next 6 months! AHHHHHH!

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Real science that's been,
DEBUNKED



but mythbusted science is shitty for background story info, so WHO CARES.