Fri 4 Jan 2008
How will humans die out? How long from now? Will it be caused by man (nuclear or bio warfare), nature big (asteroid hitting Earth), nature small (plague) or something else?
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Not with a bang but a whimper.
We (humans) are using up/polluting the earth’s resources. While there is a capacity for a large ecosystem to heal itself, the tipping point will be reached. I imagine that we will take the rest of the earth with us – that is, those things that we don’t kill off prior to the system collapse. Maybe the hearty things like roaches will survive for a bit.
The last tribe will die of radiation sickness, having misunderstood the messages at WIPP.
What about theYellowstone National Park supervolcano erupting? I’ll give us another couple thousand years.
Zombies. Next Tuesday.
Sorry.
We won’t, enough people will have read Heinlein, Nivens, Ournelle, etc. that we will eventually get off the planet. Using up all the local resources will only be a spur to expand throughout the solar system and eventually the whole galaxy.
Terminal Verbosity, I’m considering that my official excuse to eat junkfood, play records, watch Netflix, take naps, and otherwise fuck off instead of doing any work for the next 3 days and change.
I think first there’ll be some major waves of homo sapiens herd-thinning achieved by global warming, various nasty germs, “diseases of civilization,” etc. And then some waves of resurgence, probably among folks like the Andaman Islanders since the people most removed from modernity are probably best equipped to survive such events.
To knock us out completely, it’ll undoubtedly take either a) being displaced and made obsolete by a new, improved homo species, like on that short-lived, flawed but still interesting TV show Prey or b) suffering a Bruckheimeresque planetary cataclysm.
Either that or many reincarnated passenger pigeons with guns.
I vote super bacteria or virus.
Ever see I Am Legend? Yup.
I’ve always viewed humans as being like cockroaches: it’s not going to be all that easy to actually kill everyone of them off. I figure that whatever does it (my money is on volcano, and/ or asteroid)there will still be a sufficient population of humans left that they could theoretically keep the species alive, but that they will revert to a much more rudimentary lifestyle.
Like ‘iron age or earlier’ rudimentary.
What will be our downfall?
If no cataclysm occurs, evolution. We will evolve, eventually.
Cataclysmically:
To wipe us completely, our biggest currect threat is Texans with nukes. They are the craziest people around with access to world ending nukes.
Then comes disease, however with the number of people and the tech we have there will be peeps resistant to just about anything. And our tech means we will probably cure whatever it is before it kills us all.
The most eventual methods of extinction of humanity on earth are super volcanos and comets. But these aren’t necessarily immediate threats. Hopefully we are interstellar by then.
Global warming and our raping of the environment won’t lead to globan extinction of humanity. If could lead to chaos where super weapons, nuclear and biological, are more commonly used. But it is the weapons doing the extinction, not the environment.
We will not die but evolve. Now humble homo sapians, then homo robotians, then type 1 civilization, type 2 civilization (google search it), universe & then into other dimensions. we have not evolved so much to die & start all over again. I’m optimistic about humanity.
We are not the cause of global warming. It’s happened thousands of times before, we just happen to be here this time. The media is telling the population that it is us, that we as a species are responsible for the Earths many problems. The truth is, every planet in our system is being affected by global warming. So unless we’re already fucking up the other planets by being near them, it isn’t us. We will not die off by simply existing, but by something far larger than any of us can imagine.
Humanity is young. we’ve only been here a couple thousand years, and mabye i’m being too optomistic, but if humanity can stop being sucidal for a minute then mabye we’ll envolve at some point. if we do kill ourselves then it will probaly global warming or some war desinged disease or a nuclear wa, or it could be somting that we have no control over like an asteroid or somthing
oh and nick we are not the cause of global warming but we’re aiding it.
The most destructive thing we humans are engaged in is splitting atoms. There is no way to safely store radioactive waste from nuclear power plants for the lifetime of the radioactivity. They can make storage containers that supposedly will last 1,000 years, and place them under supposedly stable rock formations. But the reality is that we are playing Russian Roulette with future generations. What happens if there are geological changes and the radioactivity leaks out? The human race will die out from radiation poisoning, as another person here hypothesizes. It is so sad that we humans were given brains to figure out how to split the atom, but not the wisdom to refrain from doing it.
About in 2012, God will not accept the harm the humans have done to mother earth so he will send a deadly and massive death army that eat humans. Then a Deadly explosion caused by the core of the earth to wipe out the death army. Next he sends out volcanic volcano action all over the world. Soon everybody would be burning. Then a alien invasion. All who have been good and followed Jesus Christ will be sent to heaven, And all who have been bad and not followed Jesus Christ will be sent to hell. All who don’t believe in anything die in volcanoes and go nowhere.