The Rapture is Coming: Here's What It'll Look Like [PHOTOS]

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The notion became an ironic web meme, topping the charts that week as the most discussed topic on Twitter, with hashtags like #iftheworldendsonsaturday showing up on Twitter's trending topics.

When the saved did not rise up to heaven on that date, Camping updated his prediction, stating on his website: "Thus we can be sure that the whole world, with the exception of those who are presently saved (the elect), are under the judgment of God, and will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011".

Oct. 21 is this Friday.

What might we see if Camping is right this time? Thanks to May's #rapturebomb trend (below), we can take a guess -- and yet the more likely outcome seems to be another round of Twitter jokes.