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	<title>Comments on: When and how will humanity end?</title>
	<link>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/</link>
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		<title>By: Dave</title>
		<link>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-7785</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-7785</guid>
		<description>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.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What will be our downfall?<br />
If no cataclysm occurs, evolution. We will evolve, eventually.</p>
<p>Cataclysmically:<br />
To wipe us completely, our biggest currect threat is Texans with nukes. They are the craziest people around with access to world ending nukes.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The most eventual methods of extinction of humanity on earth are super volcanos and comets. But these aren&#8217;t necessarily immediate threats. Hopefully we are interstellar by then.</p>
<p>Global warming and our raping of the environment won&#8217;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.</p>
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		<title>By: quin</title>
		<link>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-753</link>
		<dc:creator>quin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-753</guid>
		<description>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.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve always viewed humans as being like cockroaches: it&#8217;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. </p>
<p>Like &#8216;iron age or earlier&#8217; rudimentary.</p>
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		<title>By: Autarky</title>
		<link>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-715</link>
		<dc:creator>Autarky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-715</guid>
		<description>Ever see I Am Legend? Yup.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever see I Am Legend? Yup.</p>
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		<title>By: Marie Mon Dieu</title>
		<link>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-711</link>
		<dc:creator>Marie Mon Dieu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-711</guid>
		<description>I vote super bacteria or virus.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I vote super bacteria or virus.</p>
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		<title>By: FelliniBlank</title>
		<link>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-710</link>
		<dc:creator>FelliniBlank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-710</guid>
		<description>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 &lt;em&gt;Prey&lt;/em&gt; or b) suffering a Bruckheimeresque planetary cataclysm.

Either that or many reincarnated passenger pigeons with guns.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Terminal Verbosity, I&#8217;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.  </p>
<p>I think first there&#8217;ll be some major waves of homo sapiens herd-thinning achieved by global warming, various nasty germs, &#8220;diseases of civilization,&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>To knock us out completely, it&#8217;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 <em>Prey</em> or b) suffering a Bruckheimeresque planetary cataclysm.</p>
<p>Either that or many reincarnated passenger pigeons with guns.</p>
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		<title>By: RussHy</title>
		<link>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-709</link>
		<dc:creator>RussHy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-709</guid>
		<description>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.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We won&#8217;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.</p>
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		<title>By: Terminal Verbosity</title>
		<link>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-707</link>
		<dc:creator>Terminal Verbosity</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-707</guid>
		<description>Zombies. Next Tuesday.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Zombies. Next Tuesday.<br />
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		<title>By: starman</title>
		<link>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-706</link>
		<dc:creator>starman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-706</guid>
		<description>What about the&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_National_Park#Geology" rel="nofollow"&gt;Yellowstone National Park&lt;/a&gt; supervolcano erupting?  I'll give us another couple thousand years.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What about the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_National_Park#Geology" rel="nofollow">Yellowstone National Park</a> supervolcano erupting?  I&#8217;ll give us another couple thousand years.</p>
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		<title>By: Meatbomb</title>
		<link>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-704</link>
		<dc:creator>Meatbomb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-704</guid>
		<description>The last tribe will die of radiation sickness, having misunderstood the messages at WIPP.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The last tribe will die of radiation sickness, having misunderstood the messages at WIPP.</p>
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		<title>By: mightshould</title>
		<link>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-703</link>
		<dc:creator>mightshould</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-703</guid>
		<description>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.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We (humans) are using up/polluting the earth&#8217;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&#8217;t kill off prior to the system collapse.  Maybe the hearty things like roaches will survive for a bit.</p>
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		<title>By: dbl</title>
		<link>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-694</link>
		<dc:creator>dbl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/01/04/when-and-how-will-humanity-end/#comment-694</guid>
		<description>&lt;a HREF="http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/784/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Not with a bang but a whimper.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a HREF="http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/784/" rel="nofollow">Not with a bang but a whimper.</a></p>
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