How will the Human Race End?

[IceBergSLiM]

2012 option

 

[ViviTheMage]

peace n love baby

 

[SirStev0]

MTV? Already?

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: Jhill
What about the 2nd coming of Jesus?

He was deported back to Mexico. He is irrelevant.

 

[jonks]

Most of the poll choices won't end the human race. Many of the choices will end human civilization as we know it, but not the human race. Lack of food will maybe kill a lot, but equilibrium will eventually be reached. Nuclear war still leaves 3-10% as survivers. The deadliest viruses still leave some percentage with immunity to them. Robot appocalypse = nuclear war pretty much.

I think the likeliest events to end the human race will be alien invasion that Death Star's the planet, or some other cosmic event like a black hole swallowing the earth. I'd say an asteroid would have the best chance of wiping us all out before our sun goes nova in how many billion years from now.

Of course we could also evolve into beings of pure energy which would effectively end the human race, as we would become something else, but that's a definitional change.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Jeff7




Never gonna:
1) Give you up
2) Let you down
3) Run around
4) Desert you
5) Make you cry
6) Say goodbye
7) Tell a lie
8) Hurt you

I just wanna:
9) Tell you how I'm feeling
10) Have a full commitment, I'm thinking

Now you know the rules, and so do I.
You wouldn't get this from any other God.

roflmao


i prefer to not play the "what if..." game. it will last longer than me or many generations of my family, im sure.

 

[roguerower]

You forgot the zombie attack...like my friends and I say, the hardest part about the zombie attack is pretending that we're sad about it.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
When the sun goes, the human race goes.

I think that by the time that happens, we'll have either colonized some other star system, or else we'd have multiple city-ships roaming the galaxy.

Originally posted by: cirrrocco
less phucking...I think..i guess once we get sex robots or maybe virtual g/f , b/f, who we can do anytime, I think humans will just stop procreating..what do you think??? kthxbai

The Space Pope warned us about this.

Originally posted by: Jhill
What about the 2nd coming of Jesus?

Destined for the year 2443. Not much of a big deal. Some videotapes were destroyed, that's about it.

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Gamma Ray burst

Nah, that'd only kill the people on the half of the planet facing the blast.
However, the billions of newly-minted Incredible Hulks might cause other problems.

 

[m1ldslide1]

Originally posted by: videogames101
Virus/disease, most definitely....

Yeah. This could be merged with the "Natural Selection due to the evolution of a more "fit" species" option. Virus' will evolve faster than us and ultimately win.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I believe mankind will go out with a whimper...not a bang. I vote superflu within 100-500 years.

M O O N, that spells superflu!

 

[imported_Imp]

End of the universe in 1000-10000 years. If movies have taught me anything, it's that there will always be some survivors, and they'll found new worlds... then the robots take over, and they come back to earth.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

History has demonstrated that a cataclysm from space can and will easily wipe out the dominant species on earth. The dinosaurs were in charge for 150 million years, one rock from space and poof, bye-bye. We'll probably go the same way. It seems likely that the earth will suffer several more major asteroid/comet strikes before the sun explodes.

 

[Xavier434]

It's tough to say because I believe that we will not reach our demise before we start regularly making more use of space travel and inhabiting other planets. Being that most of the theories rely a lot on the idea that our continued existence depends on Earth remaining our primary home planet, I don't think any of the above options seem realistic enough with exception of the virus/disease one. That one could potentially spread to any colonization before we contain it to a single planet.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
History has demonstrated that a cataclysm from space can and will easily wipe out the dominant species on earth. The dinosaurs were in charge for 150 million years, one rock from space and poof, bye-bye. We'll probably go the same way. It seems likely that the earth will suffer several more major asteroid/comet strikes before the sun explodes.

Dinosaurs weren't wiped out. Their ancestors now enjoy crapping on our cars.

I think humans would survive an impact. Not many, and it'd be a lousy life, but we'd survive somehow. It depends of course on the size of the impactor. If it's some huge body, enough to encase the planet in a firestorm, well then, that's a good format-and-reinstall. If it's something to temporarily retard plant growth and limit sunlight in a way that'd be fatal to reptilian life, we'd probably find a way to survive. We could eat rats and cockroaches. They always seem to survive.

 

[Vic]

I can't say how the human race will end. IMO it will be supplanted by the next species in the evolutionary development. How that will come about is uncertain.

Life as we know it on earth will disappear or change completely due to radical climate change over the next few hundreds of millions of years.

 

[manowar821]

All we gotta do is become a type 1<2 civilization, then we'll be indestructible.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
History has demonstrated that a cataclysm from space can and will easily wipe out the dominant species on earth. The dinosaurs were in charge for 150 million years, one rock from space and poof, bye-bye. We'll probably go the same way. It seems likely that the earth will suffer several more major asteroid/comet strikes before the sun explodes.

Dinosaurs weren't wiped out. Their ancestors now enjoy crapping on our cars.

I think humans would survive an impact. Not many, and it'd be a lousy life, but we'd survive somehow. It depends of course on the size of the impactor. If it's some huge body, enough to encase the planet in a firestorm, well then, that's a good format-and-reinstall. If it's something to temporarily retard plant growth and limit sunlight in a way that'd be fatal to reptilian life, we'd probably find a way to survive. We could eat rats and cockroaches. They always seem to survive.

Gag is just proving yet again that he knows jack about science. The K-T extinction event is evolution. That's one way that it works. Without that meteor/comet, lowly mammals probably never would have evolved into humans.

In the same vein, one could ask, how are humans going to evolve physically into the next species without some kind of catastrophic event?

I'll now wait for Gag to pull out his usual I believe in some fairy tale BS...

 

[AbAbber2k]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Gamma Ray burst

That's what I was thinking.

There are plenty of nearby stars large enough to go supernova and blow away our atmosphere/all organic life/the planet in a powerful gamma ray burst. The only question is, will it happen before something else kills us off?

 

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: Vic


Gag is just proving yet again that he knows jack about science. The K-T extinction event is evolution. That's one way that it works. Without that meteor/comet, lowly mammals probably never would have evolved into humans.

In the same vein, one could ask, how are humans going to evolve physically into the next species without some kind of catastrophic event?

I'll now wait for Gag to pull out his usual I believe in some fairy tale BS...

I don't believe it will require a catastrophic event. However, enough really slow changes to our environment and lifestyles over a lot of time could do it.

Another theory would be to toss in the idea of a human civilization living on another planet. Living on a new planet would most likely result in an instant change to ones environment and lifestyle. Over the course of many generations and years (I am talking thousands to millions here) it is most certainly possible that it would result in at least some form of physical evolution such as bone/muscle structure without the need for a catastrophe.

 

[DougK62]

I don't know how it will happen, but I'm quite sure it'll be our own fault.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Never gonna:
1) Give you up
2) Let you down
3) Run around
4) Desert you
5) Make you cry
6) Say goodbye
7) Tell a lie
8) Hurt you

I just wanna:
9) Tell you how I'm feeling
10) Have a full commitment, I'm thinking

Now you know the rules, and so do I.
You wouldn't get this from any other God.

This post is win.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Xavier434
I don't believe it will require a catastrophic event. However, enough really slow changes to our environment and lifestyles over a lot of time could do it.

Another theory would be to toss in the idea of a human civilization living on another planet. Living on a new planet would most likely result in an instant change to ones environment and lifestyle. Over the course of many generations and years (I am talking thousands to millions here) it is most certainly possible that it would result in at least some form of physical evolution such as bone/muscle structure without the need for a catastrophe.

Species are kind of like planets. They clear out all the genetic "debris" around them and enforce a kind of rigid genetic conformity. And unfortunately, that tends to work both ways and slow the evolutionary progress.
True, over the course of thousands and millions of years, progress will occur. But yeah, it's slow, and in the meantime, uncontrollable environmental pressures will IMO do more to cause evolutionary change than just this slow progress on its own.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
History has demonstrated that a cataclysm from space can and will easily wipe out the dominant species on earth. The dinosaurs were in charge for 150 million years, one rock from space and poof, bye-bye. We'll probably go the same way. It seems likely that the earth will suffer several more major asteroid/comet strikes before the sun explodes.

Dinosaurs weren't wiped out. Their ancestors now enjoy crapping on our cars.

I think humans would survive an impact. Not many, and it'd be a lousy life, but we'd survive somehow. It depends of course on the size of the impactor. If it's some huge body, enough to encase the planet in a firestorm, well then, that's a good format-and-reinstall. If it's something to temporarily retard plant growth and limit sunlight in a way that'd be fatal to reptilian life, we'd probably find a way to survive. We could eat rats and cockroaches. They always seem to survive.

Gag is just proving yet again that he knows jack about science. The K-T extinction event is evolution. That's one way that it works. Without that meteor/comet, lowly mammals probably never would have evolved into humans.

In the same vein, one could ask, how are humans going to evolve physically into the next species without some kind of catastrophic event?

I'll now wait for Gag to pull out his usual I believe in some fairy tale BS...

Awww Vic, still holding a grudge about me kicking your ass every time you try to sell that 6,000 year old earth BS and exposing your complete lack of knowledge about your big book of fairy tales? You really should let it go man. If you're going to base your life on lies you shouldn't get that upset when other people notice.

Vic, you're once again proving that your reading comprehension skills are sorely lacking. Should I toss in a lot of Lo! and Behold! and a long series of x begat x to help you along? Where did I discount evolution when mentioning the end of the dinosaurs? The death of the dinosaurs and the rise of mammals were opposite sides of the same coin. The climate changed to a degree that creatures larger than a chicken couldn't survive. So what we think of as dinosaurs disappeared and smaller creatures had the chance to evolve in an environment without a massive number of top level predators preventing it.

How will humans evolve following the next space-based cataclysm? Who is to say that they will evolve at all? Or at least who is to say they'll evolve into anything we recognize as humans? The next evolution of humans might change us into something completely different like the birds springing from dinosaurs. If life on earth is again reduced to smaller mammals and insects there's no guarantee that humans will again spring up as the dominant species. Perhaps the nuclear winter will be longer, or shorter or the dust that settles will be of a different composition and things won't happen the same way. Maybe insects will evolve as the dominant life form and the small mammals that eventually turned into humans the last time around won't even have a chance.

If you think you know exactly what will happen following an event that causes mass species extinctions and indescribable climate changes you're dealing in fairy tales as usual.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
History has demonstrated that a cataclysm from space can and will easily wipe out the dominant species on earth. The dinosaurs were in charge for 150 million years, one rock from space and poof, bye-bye. We'll probably go the same way. It seems likely that the earth will suffer several more major asteroid/comet strikes before the sun explodes.

Dinosaurs weren't wiped out. Their ancestors now enjoy crapping on our cars.

I think humans would survive an impact. Not many, and it'd be a lousy life, but we'd survive somehow. It depends of course on the size of the impactor. If it's some huge body, enough to encase the planet in a firestorm, well then, that's a good format-and-reinstall. If it's something to temporarily retard plant growth and limit sunlight in a way that'd be fatal to reptilian life, we'd probably find a way to survive. We could eat rats and cockroaches. They always seem to survive.

Gag is just proving yet again that he knows jack about science. The K-T extinction event is evolution. That's one way that it works. Without that meteor/comet, lowly mammals probably never would have evolved into humans.

In the same vein, one could ask, how are humans going to evolve physically into the next species without some kind of catastrophic event?

I'll now wait for Gag to pull out his usual I believe in some fairy tale BS...

Awww Vic, still holding a grudge about me kicking your ass every time you try to sell that 6,000 year old earth BS and exposing your complete lack of knowledge about your big book of fairy tales? You really should let it go man. If you're going to base your life on lies you shouldn't get that upset when other people notice.

Vic, you're once again proving that your reading comprehension skills are sorely lacking. Should I toss in a lot of Lo! and Behold! and a long series of x begat x to help you along? Where did I discount evolution when mentioning the end of the dinosaurs? The death of the dinosaurs and the rise of mammals were opposite sides of the same coin. The climate changed to a degree that creatures larger than a chicken couldn't survive. So what we think of as dinosaurs disappeared and smaller creatures had the chance to evolve in an environment without a massive number of top level predators preventing it.

How will humans evolve following the next space-based cataclysm? Who is to say that they will evolve at all? Or at least who is to say they'll evolve into anything we recognize as humans? The next evolution of humans might change us into something completely different like the birds springing from dinosaurs. If life on earth is again reduced to smaller mammals and insects there's no guarantee that humans will again spring up as the dominant species. Perhaps the nuclear winter will be longer, or shorter or the dust that settles will be of a different composition and things won't happen the same way. Maybe insects will evolve as the dominant life form and the small mammals that eventually turned into humans the last time around won't even have a chance.

If you think you know exactly what will happen following an event that causes mass species extinctions and indescribable climate changes you're dealing in fairy tales as usual.

Quoted for moranity.

I'm talking K-T boundary, dinosaurs evolving into birds, and time scales of hundreds of millions of years, climate change being the most likely cause of life on earth ending hundreds of millions (perhaps a billion) years from now, and Gag claims I'm selling Young Earth Creationism and the Bible. So fscking typical of him.

And if you had followed along, I was talking about homo sapiens probably will NOT evolve at the next cataclysmic event and how that IS evolution, because of the genetic "clearing" effect that species have. Note that dinosaurs evolved into birds, not humans. Which will the dominant species 100 millions years from now? Who knows? But I'm betting on the descendants of the bees.

Oh yeah, dipsh!t, I'm sellin' the Bible and x begat x, now aren't I? Oh, you kicked my ass good here... :roll:

Wow...

 

[jjones]

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