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Sorry folks, but the human race ain't gonna make it.

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compuwiz1

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When there comes a time, when on the street, I hear more dire and disgusting stuff, than what comes here (to AnandTech) everyday, I'm sorry, but I don't have alot of hope! 😉

We're doomed! 🙁 Things are gonna get much worse, before they get better. 😉
 
I believe in much the same. I think we'll ruin the planet and wipe ourselves out. So enjoy what you have while you can!
 
Originally posted by: Feldenak
Nah, humans are pretty imaginative, resourceful and adaptable. We'll make it. 🙂
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what a shame we'll be on the planet alone, having killed off all the beautiful creatures that currently co-exist with us in limited space. if we're lucky, maybe there'll be a few cockroaches and ants left.
 
I have very few doubts that mankind itself will end mankind.
As education and technology increases, the ease of gaining certain special knowledge increases...
All it takes if for one nutcase to figure out how to genetically alter some disease and wipe out a majority of the population
(this is one of only many ways we could doom ourselves)
Before disgreeing with that statement, let me point out the rate at which newer and newer technologies are taught to children:

When I was in high school, we disected worms, frogs, and pigs in bio lab.
In some schools today, they're already messing around with DNA in labs.
 
Make it to what?
What is making it?

Survive for eternity, No, in about 5 billion years the sun will burn out.
Chances are though, within just tens of millions of years, a big rock will collide with the planet and screw it up (you know, sorta like killed the dynosaurs)
 
that's evolution for you. give us conscience thought and all only to allow us to destroy ourselves with it. sounds counter productive, if you ask me. i guess a scientific constant can get lazy after a few billion years.
 
Originally posted by: TheToOTaLL
The human race will make it, just not America 🙁
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LOL, I think America is the *least* likely country to falter and die 🙂 As long as Liberty lasts, America will survive. The rest of the world will continue to enslave and oppress people in the name of "fairness" and "social justice" (which is the farthest possible concept removed from Justice) and they'll hate us for being free and prosperous, but we'll survive regardless.

Jason
 
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: Feldenak
Nah, humans are pretty imaginative, resourceful and adaptable. We'll make it. 🙂
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what a shame we'll be on the planet alone, having killed off all the beautiful creatures that currently co-exist with us in limited space. if we're lucky, maybe there'll be a few cockroaches and ants left.
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Pretty unlikely. Even as big as human civilization is, we still occupy very little of the earth's surface. We tend to live in giant clumps, if you hadn't noticed, with sprawling, empty chunks of land covering millions of square miles in between.

Jason
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
I have very few doubts that mankind itself will end mankind.
As education and technology increases, the ease of gaining certain special knowledge increases...
All it takes if for one nutcase to figure out how to genetically alter some disease and wipe out a majority of the population
(this is one of only many ways we could doom ourselves)
Before disgreeing with that statement, let me point out the rate at which newer and newer technologies are taught to children:

When I was in high school, we disected worms, frogs, and pigs in bio lab.
In some schools today, they're already messing around with DNA in labs.
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So what do you propose as an alternative? Reduce the level of education for the average person? Allow only a select few to become educated and versed in teh ways of the world?

I think I'll take my chances with the nutcase and the germ warfare. At least then I might have a decent chance of mutating into a giant slug that eats mad scientists 🙂

Jason
 
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