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[Golan]

NergiZed, on 11 May 2009, 3:34, said:

There's a chance that the end will be natural, but the universe works a little too slow. Mankind can do the job much faster, as I've heard that they're quite resourceful.

I'd still rate the chances of a meteor hit wiping us out as relatively high (that is, if one hit, not that one hits). There are several scenarios in which a natural disaster could wipe us out without us having any chance to avert it.

NergiZed, on 11 May 2009, 3:34, said:

Golan, on 9 May 2009, 6:36, said:

Seeing how resourceful mankind is, it's probably just a matter of time until we swap the metaphorical wire with a metaphorical noose. Made out of titanium-razor-wire. With poisoned spikes. Knotted to a jet engine with afterburner. Over a pool of Piranhas. While being on fire. In space.

Yeah, that's quite resourceful, breaking the laws of physics takes a sizable amount of resources.

If you manage to get a frigging pool of piranhas into space (and to properly set your inertial system to have a z-axis so you can be above it), taking some oxygen with you shouldn't be all that hard.
That, plus being in space should be enough of a distraction to keep you from imagining what it means to get strangled by razor wire.

Edited by Golan, 11 May 2009 - 08:45.

[SquigPie]

Also, the thing that strangles you is gravity pulling you down, so how can you even strangle yourself in it?...

But after all, just a metaphor.

So I'm going to keep to my opinion that the world will end when Chuck Norris...uhm..nowait...I...I mean...GOD! THe world will end when God descides it is time.

So maybee tommorow or in a hundred-gazzilionbillionnilliondilliongenehackmanncapiliontrillionmillion-thousand years, we'll see, we'll see...

Edited by SquigPie, 13 May 2009 - 08:06.

[ultimentra]

I believe what will happen is a future akin to the TV Series firefly, only without the guns from the 1800's. They show a very reasonable future for humanity I think.