Why hasn't no one made the ultimate doomsday movie?

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I don't know why i'm posting this exactly but I had an idea so thought i'd share it, ideas aren't bad are they?...hope not, nothing wrong with thinking...all great scientists/inventors think all the time and come up with all sorts of ideas :) . So I was thinking about this...why hasn't the most predicted doomsday scenario not been yet made?

Asteroids, tsunamis, volcanoes, viruses, earthquakers, aliens etc have all been done but what about the ultimate end? I'm talking about the last days of the sun (In about 1 billion years into the future when the sun is supposed to be very very hot or 3 billion years when it dies). I know it seems a bit far fetched and it could be very complex due to technological advancements but its very very very interesting.

[Grand_Marquis]

The Sun is about midway through its life right now. We actually have around 4 or so Billion years to go before it starts growing after us. In fact, the andromeda galaxy is slated to collide with ours in three billion years, so the Earth will still be around to even witness that (though I don't think galactic collisions cause any problems for planets). Somehow, I could imagine that a disaster movie set billions of years in the future would be difficult to pitch... :rolleyes:

Then again, there are plenty of other cosmic phenomena that could cause our destruction. Without an ozone layer, for instance, a gamma burst could instantly wipe out all life on Earth (of course, since the current problem with the planet is too much ozone, I don't think we should be worrying about this) There's also the solar flare to think about. It possible (though incredibly, astronomically improbable) that some freak oversized solar flare could end up intersecting with our orbit, roasting us. Of course, I don't think any amount of strategic nuking would save us from that sort of disaster.

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The Sun is about midway through its life right now. We actually have around 4 or so Billion years to go before it starts growing after us. In fact, the andromeda galaxy is slated to collide with ours in three billion years, so the Earth will still be around to even witness that (though I don't think galactic collisions cause any problems for planets). Somehow, I could imagine that a disaster movie set billions of years in the future would be difficult to pitch... :rolleyes:

Then again, there are plenty of other cosmic phenomena that could cause our destruction. Without an ozone layer, for instance, a gamma burst could instantly wipe out all life on Earth (of course, since the current problem with the planet is too much ozone, I don't think we should be worrying about this) There's also the solar flare to think about. It possible (though incredibly, astronomically improbable) that some freak oversized solar flare could end up intersecting with our orbit, roasting us. Of course, I don't think any amount of strategic nuking would save us from that sort of disaster.

The Andromeda galaxy is expected to collide in 2.5 billion years nevertheless its still a very long time. I thought that in about 1 billion years time the sun would be so hot that life on earth cannot survive (humans) from what i've seen in the 'Universe' and other documentaries? Gamma rays bursts are scary, black holes are more likely to wipe out earth, I saw a documentary saying that there is a super massive blackhole in the centre of the milkyway but at the moment its silent as there is nothing around it to consume but the more matter it consumes the larger it grows...scary as hell.
I love the thought of watching a film that could portray the ultimate end to life.

[xander887]

I thought Sunshine kind of went the whole Sun route... not much of a doomsday flick though

It would need the perspective from the earth.

if they balanced the two it would have been kind of like Deep Impact now that I think about it... which isn't necessarily a good thing

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Got this from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_sun

Under the title 'Life cycle', check out last 6 lines.

The Sun does not have enough mass to explode as a supernova. Instead, in 5–6 billion years, it will enter a red giant phase, its outer layers expanding as the hydrogen fuel in the core is consumed and the core contracts and heats up. Helium fusion will begin when the core temperature reaches around 100 MK, and will produce carbon and oxygen, entering the asymptotic giant branch of a planetary nebula phase in about 7.8 billion years, during which instabilities in interior temperature lead the surface of the sun to shed mass. While it is likely that the expansion of the outer layers of the Sun will reach the current position of Earth's orbit, recent research suggests that mass lost from the Sun earlier in its red giant phase will cause the Earth's orbit to move further out, preventing it from being engulfed.[9] However, Earth's water will be boiled away and most of its atmosphere will escape into space. The increase in solar temperatures over this period is sufficient that by about 900 million years into the future, the surface of the Earth will become too hot for the survival of life as we know it.[10] After another billion years the surface water will have completely disappeared.[11]

[The Postmaster General]

I thought no one has made an ultimate doomsday movie.

[Grand_Marquis]

Well No-one took a good crack at it with the film, "The Ultimate Doomsday Movie," but from all accounts it was a flop. Probably had something to do with the fact that No-one watched it and nobody else. But that's another story.

[Rawlin67]

the last movie i saw that was about the end of the world was Southland Tales. It went along the lines of Revalations in the Bible (on very loose terms and stuff), but like the trailer says, this is the story of the end of the world. going out not with a whisper, but with a bang.