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[Hobbesy]

How will the human race end? Will it never end at all? How would it happen? Has it been predicted?

[Whitey]

It will end when I say it will end.

[General Kirkov]

The human race will end when we destroy ourselves.

[Pandut]

Well, Technically the world will in in approximately 2012, because as we all know the Mayans were great philosophers and philosophized the world would end in 2012.

But, i kinda agree with Kirkov... We probably will destroy ourselves

[Whitey]

Bah. How can we possibly destroy every single person on earth? Even with nuclear warfare, there are fallout shelters.

[Foxhound]

Zombie outbreak (really. it's more likely than you think. far more likely. neurotoxins, loss of serotonin absorpation, contagious Mad Cow (hey, disease evolves), nanobots...)
Technological singularity
OMGROTFLOLNUKES
Zerg Rush (who says there isn't a huge alien species out there waiting to kill everything?)
Deep Impact redux
Lab experiment gone horribly wrong
Pandemic
Scant possibility of evolution

Edited by Foxhound, 22 January 2008 - 06:04.

[Comr4de]

When I hit the reset button.





No really, who knows.

[Corrino and the Maiden]

Phlisophically the smarter the human race become, the more tactical, strategic, & rational we are, yet we also become, more cruel, sadictic, selfish, and generally evil.

Hence becoming smarter in many peoples eye may mean that we could be smart enough to save the human race, yet really it would more likely destroy it. Something to think about isnt it?

personally I think that idiots run things, and hence the human race should last quite long, obviliously however the planet is running dry and will eventually die out of resources, and hence humans will have to live completely on artifical goods, or move to another place, i.e. planet, self-sustaining space craft, or even asteroid. Similary there is also the theory of self-sustaing brains ...

Edited by Corrino and the Maiden, 22 January 2008 - 09:25.

[Dauth]

Some sort of self inflicted fireball will wipe out a lot of the population, however humanities adaptability is one of the greatest things about our race some will survive and eventually we'll just become another race no longer Homo Sapins Sapins, but something else.

[Kris]

It would end if a black hole sucked our solar system.

[Dauth]

Not enough mass anywhere near here, and the nearest star isn't big enough either so we're good.

[Ion Cannon!]

Dauth, on 22 Jan 2008, 9:53, said:

Some sort of self inflicted fireball will wipe out a lot of the population, however humanities adaptability is one of the greatest things about our race some will survive and eventually we'll just become another race no longer Homo Sapins Sapins, but something else.

Organisms evolve due to natural selection.

Because of the level of intelligence we have we no longer need to evolve. The selective pressures are not there to initiate natural selection. Any selective pressure that does arise - we just overcome it with technology.

If we manage to not nuke each other to kingdom come in the next 5 billion years then not to worry. The sun will grow - become red giant ect and in that process of expansion it will boil the sea's off the earth along with all our bodily fluids ^

[nova]

Pandut, on 21 Jan 2008, 23:44, said:

Well, Technically the world will in in approximately 2012, because as we all know the Mayans were great philosophers and philosophized the world would end in 2012.

But, i kinda agree with Kirkov... We probably will destroy ourselves

they never said the world will end only that the cycle would end and a new one will start and that game they played to symbolize it the ball that was soposed to be earth was nver destroyed theres only going to be a change not destruction

ontopic we will kill ourselves the human race is a violent one indded

[Waris]

A supernova! Now that's awesome.

[Overdose]

Humanity will in fact end in a not too far future if we don't start colonizing space. We won't be around to see the mess and neither will our grandchildren (perhaps we're the lucky ones) but it's going get very ugly. Our generation so far has done the least of technological advancements I think of all civilized human history. Wars are not as good for science and technology as people would like you to believe.

Edit: Typos

Edited by Overdose, 22 January 2008 - 14:34.

[Dauth]

Supernova? Ok who hasn't done any advanced physics.

The only way a supernova will wipe us out is one that is so close that the gamma radiation strips us off the planet, or the neutrino shower reacts and ionises all life. But supernovae are so rare and so distant that the chances are negligible.

[Reaper94]

blame the guy who made these



when it happebns

[Jazzie Spurs]

Foxhound, on 22 Jan 2008, 7:02, said:

Zombie outbreak (really. it's more likely than you think. far more likely. neurotoxins, loss of serotonin absorpation, contagious Mad Cow (hey, disease evolves), nanobots...)

Is that REALLY possible?
Well I suppose that the end will be with the crash of a meteorite, or some stupid and selfish biological investigator who create a virus.

[Reaper94]

when the rotten food from under my bed evolves to a human infectious toxin, if i suddenly become extremely inactive call BioHaz in


seriously tho

nuke or some kind of toxin.

however

apparantly the moon gets pulled AWAY from the earth 3cm each year, so in a few thousand years the moons effect will wither into nothing and we'd all flood (somming like that i heard) ~_O

[Mr. Mylo]

We wont destroy ourself... I guess something else will kill us or the whole earth...

[thinimus]

We'll probably start modifying ourselves more and more with technology until we aren't human any more.

Or, society will be run governed by powerful AI systems and people will just keep going on until the universe has to end or something.

[Encrypted]

I don't think this has been said yet but what about judgment day.
where the evil are cast into hell and those that have chosen forgiveness are taken heaven

Though if it does end another way i reckon that if we even get around to colonizing other planets that the newer civilizations will watch the old one tear its self apart through the world no longer being able to sustain our existence upon its surface.

technically though that will not be the end of human life just the end of life on earth :bigeye:

[Dauth]

0.04m a year, 400,000,000m away I wouldn't worry. Seriously Red Giant will kill the planet before unstable angular momentum shoves us into the Venutian orbit.

Blame the people who invented nukes? Nukes are one of the greatest achivements of science, hear me out.

Concept 1920's (Militray concept) - RnD 1940 - Production 1943 - Use 1945 - By product use 1950's.

In 30 years from concept to providing power for millions.

Its not blame to Oppenheimer.

It will be a war that kills most of us.

[Alias]

Dauth, on 23 Jan 2008, 21:00, said:

It will be a war that kills most of us.

Yes, and a war involving these "great achievements", no doubt. Predictably caused by America.

Edited by Alias, 23 January 2008 - 10:05.

[Dauth]

I think America bashing should really be on the way out by now, especially compared to Europe, sometimes I find myself wanting to "y'all".

We sat by and let the ethnic cleansing of Muslims happen in Serbia until the US forced something through the UN, men of the US died protecting the Islamic faith, no-one remembers this, not a single bloody person and now they are seen as the great enemy, by everyone. Tell me this is right!

Right nukes aren't a good thing, but they propped up the UK for 30 years and stopped us beign over a barrel to the Middle East or the Russians which is bloody useful, and tbh we need to build a new set of reactors for the same reason.