Disappointed the world didn't end? Fret not, there's another apocalypse on the way...

But you'll have to wait at least six years for the Earth to be destroyed..

Fire in the sky: The Earth could be toast by 2018

So the 

Mayan apocalypse didn't happen after all, despite our best efforts to encourage it with a minute-by-minute live blog.

But relax - there are plenty of other doomsday scenarios to cling to, even if you feel let down this time.

Scientists reckon we have between half a billion years (due to falling levels of carbon dioxide) to 

a billion years (due to expansion of the sun) left before Earth is uninhabitable, and a mere 22 billion years before the universe explodes as it cannot expand any further.

Can't wait that long? Then the good news is there is an apocalypse planned for much, much sooner.

Egyptian biochemist Rashad Khalifa predicted in 1968 that the world would end in 2240.

He came to that conclusion after claiming to have cracked the Quaran Code - a series of hidden messages in the holy book of Islam.

The good news? The Quaran Code apparently also shows that all believers will be saved, regardless of their religion.

Sunni Muslim scholar Said Nursî was a bit more pessimistic.

The theologian dubbed The Wonder Of The Age by his followers translated many of Muhammad's sayings and found that one implied the world would end in 2129.

According to the Quaran, that will come as a result of a one-eyed beat of the earth, possibly in human form, doing battle with the Messiah while the ancient people of Gog and Magog descend from the heavens to scourge the Earth.

Armageddon outta here: Will the world end in six years?

 

American psychic Jeane Dixon's prediction is even more concerning.

Before her death in 1997, the one-time adviser to First Lady Nancy Reagan claimed Armageddon would come in 2020.

Dixon was famous for predicting the assassination of President Kennedy, and became a favourite of President Nixon's at a result - but she also predicted that Nixon would win the 1960 election, that World War III would begin in 1958 and that the Russians would put the first man in the moon. Oh, and Dixon once also claimed that the world would end in 1962.

Bleakest of all is the conviction of Dr. F. Kenton Beshore that the world could end in 2018.

Beshore, founder of the World Bible Society, is described by the apocalypse-friendly Rapture Ready website as "extraordinary, humble, fun-loving, yet serious" and draws his inspiration from the works of evangelist Hal Lindsey, who claimed that the world would end in 1998.

Beshore claimed Lindsey had got his maths - based on the length of a Biblical generation - wrong and that we'd all be toast between 2018-2028.

Let's hope the prophets of doom go the same way as the proponents of the Mayans...