Extintion of Man-kind

[LegacyComplete]

My Thoughts:

Global Warming, Could Happen but not likely.

Space Disaster, Maybe in a couple hundred million years.

Mankind, very possible, we are a very stupid type of organism...

Robots, ok first off, you shouldnt have listed it as 'robots', that just sounds stupid, you should have listed it 'Artificial Intelligence'.. my thoughts are that if we do obtain AI technology, like, ACTUAL AI technology where it thinks for itself not like game AI where it runs off a moral code script, If we got the technology it would all depend on the person who was to program it. The big scare of AI technology is that "the AI will realize after proccessing innefficient measures that Humans themselves are 'innefficient' and proceed to wipe out the race", now if the programmer who coded the AI was to make a definition that "Humans created AI therefore they are not innefficient but scientient" could possible cure this "bug". although AI DOES think for itself and could just ignore this policy and assume through its own will that the Human Race is infact Innefficient even though They created AI.

Disease/Virus, Maybe if Ebola has a second go at the running track as a superformed virus and starts spreading in china.....

Now about this rapture thing, im not religious in any way so i dont know what it is, but since i (yes im about to offend lots of people, but i really dont care i believe in freedom of thought) think religion and "god" is a bunch of bull, im going to say:

Chance = Nil

 

[madmax_vii]

to be honest, why worry about global warming when we'll probably cause a nuclear fallout before that can even happen

 

[Dopples]

To all the people who say we'll kill eachother off:Only if we severly change the enviroment enough, and even then, there'll be survivors, and if Natural Selection has anything to say about it, we'll be fine....as a race.


Now, if our planet was rendered inhospitible, then we're screwed. But we lack the capacity for something so big ATM (So don't automatically say "IT'S GONNA BE BUSH."), and when we finally do....we're gone from Earth. Off to live on Mars....or Pluto...or Omicron Percei 8 (I'm pulling names out of my ass, shut up) or whatever.


Edit:I realized I've posted here before...my bad....but my point still stands, we will not go extinct unless the Universe itself is destroyed.

 

[Rhazdel]

To all the people who say we'll kill eachother off:Only if we severly change the enviroment enough, and even then, there'll be survivors, and if Natural Selection has anything to say about it, we'll be fine....as a race.


Now, if our planet was rendered inhospitible, then we're screwed. But we lack the capacity for something so big ATM (So don't automatically say "IT'S GONNA BE BUSH."), and when we finally do....we're gone from Earth. Off to live on Mars....or Pluto...or Omicron Percei 8 (I'm pulling names out of my ass, shut up) or whatever.


Edit:I realized I've posted here before...my bad....but my point still stands, we will not go extinct unless the Universe itself is destroyed.

It's gonna be Bush....er.....I mean.....sorry. But seriously, we are quite capable of self-destruction. The United States alone has a large enough nuclear weapon stockpile to destroy the Earth something like 17 times over.

If the Earth were to become unlivable, we could always compensate for that through technology. We would have to construct large "biodome" type cities that completely protected us from the outside environment. We would have to create these types of constructs anyway if we tried to relocate to another planet (Mars has no atmosphere, Pluto is too cold and is only a planetoid, anyway, etc.).

I think extinction of man is completely plausible.

 

[Dopples]

We would have to create these types of constructs anyway if we tried to relocate to another planet (Mars has no atmosphere, Pluto is too cold and is only a planetoid, anyway, etc.).

I think extinction of man is completely plausible.

Well, that's why we terraform the planet, eh? Once we do that, we'll have a suitable living enviroment, but they'll have to come up with an easy to get/use renewable energy source. I never said for live on Mars as is :-/ We'd pop.


And I never said it wasn't, I just said that a nuclear war won't kill ALL of us.There will always be a few who miss the blast (They could be scuba diving in Anartica), since why would anyone bomb the artics, or Canada?

 

[Rhazdel]

Well, that's why we terraform the planet, eh? Once we do that, we'll have a suitable living enviroment, but they'll have to come up with an easy to get/use renewable energy source. I never said for live on Mars as is :-/ We'd pop.


And I never said it wasn't, I just said that a nuclear war won't kill ALL of us.There will always be a few who miss the blast (They could be scuba diving in Anartica), since why would anyone bomb the artics, or Canada?

The Earth took billions of years to terraform into a living environment. Besides, all the other planets in this solar system (with a few exceptions of moons, mostly Jupiter's moons), all planets other than Earth are "dead planets". In order for a planet to sustain life, very specific requirements must be met. Mostly, distance from the sun (not too cold and not too hot) and the planet must be volcanically active. They need "plate tectonics", or a thin crust that sits on top of an ever-shifting, semi-molten mantle. The only other planet that still has plate tectonics is Venus, but the surface temperature there is far beyond the livable limits (due to an extreme Greenhouse Effect). It's not a matter of just "terraforming a planet", because no plantlife could be sustained on another planet. Without plant life and the correct atmosphere to contain it, there can be no air and no life.

And while everyone might not be killed by a nuclear blast, the fallout would kill off anything that survived. If, by some chance something could live through all of that, then the "nuclear winter" associated with large-scale nuclear detonations would most certainly finish the job.

Kind of depressing when you think about it...

 

[Granas3 REMIXED]

Mars could sustain life. But we'd need to really use a lot of machinery at first, but technology might pull us through. also, some believe that a planet with the same characteristics as earth may lie on the other end of the galaxy.

The only thing that'll wipe us altogether is evovling radically beyond our current form.

 

[Rhazdel]

Mars could sustain life. But we'd need to really use a lot of machinery at first, but technology might pull us through. also, some believe that a planet with the same characteristics as earth may lie on the other end of the galaxy.

The only thing that'll wipe us altogether is evovling radically beyond our current form.

Again, ideas better suited for Science Fiction novels. Most scientists believe that Mars can no longer actually sustain life. It may have been capable several billion years ago, but it is now a "dead planet". Any technology we could use to make Mars habitable we could use on our own dying planet (which would have to be massive, city-sized biodomes, I suppose...).

And as far as reaching out to other solar systems, it would be next to impossible. The nearest star (hence, nearest solar system) would take thousands of years, travelling at the speed of light (which is far, far beyond our current space travel speeds) to reach. The ship to get us there would have to be a floating continent, in essence, capable of fully sustaining hundreds of generations until they could reach their destination.

Evolving past our current form.....possibly. Humanity has reached somewhat of a stagnant age in our evolution. Evolution is a species adapting to its environment, where mankind has reached a point where we adapt our environment to us. Air conditioning, indoor heaters regulate our body temperatures, while clothing and shoes protects our skin. We really have no reason to evolve further. Although, I think it is perfectly possible that humans (as a species) will grow weaker in body structure, possibly to the point of being dangerous.

 

[Tdata]

My $1.50. No offence, but this is all pointless.
Global warming means that the average tempature will rise, this will in turn melt the ice caps and cool the earth down about 11 degrees C. That may not seem like much Change But it will make the problem worse not better. Because it is colder people will be using more fuel and enhancing the GreenHouse effect. Once about 3/4 of the icecaps are melted and anout 2/5 of the world is underwater, it will be too late. There will be nothing we can do to fix the enviroment. So the point is moot.

Space Disasters: The only one i can think of happening in the next 1000 years would be Those four NMEs. NME are Near-Miss-Events. The odds are good that they will miss, but since we can't predict gravitational fields well enough to do an accurate telemetry, we must hope that they do miss...

Mankind: Mankind covers Globalwarming, bacteria/viruses, AI(Robots), in one package. We engeneer viruses everyday in labs. We are the ones screwing with nature, and we are the ones who are to make AI. So, if any of those three happen, it is man's fault for the most part...

Lastly, as i know people will hate me, if you read your holy writ, you would know that it says 'GOD' will walk the earth for 1000 years. Not us, not his children. During that time Those in Heaven and those in Hell will be preparing for 'The War'. Those who are of the 'Old Religion' That would be Ragnorak. Here is the part that you won't like. I think it is all crap. But i won't go into that as this isn't the debate for it...

 

[clive owen's secret identity]

Global Warming: It doesn't exist, so that's out the door.

Mankind: Yeah, we're going to kill ourselves. It's that simple, but of course a lot of people are going to be raptured out of here, then the US will probability be blown out of the earth when the cornerstone of the new temple is placed.(When the cornerstone of the New Temple is placed, World War 3 will begin.)

 

[madmax_vii]

Global Warming: It doesn't exist, so that's out the door.

Mankind: Yeah, we're going to kill ourselves. It's that simple, but of course a lot of people are going to be raptured out of here, then the US will probability be blown out of the earth when the cornerstone of the new temple is placed.(When the cornerstone of the New Temple is placed, World War 3 will begin.)

I'm completely with you, it's inevitable that we're going to be our own doom, global warming's caused by us, all wars were caused by us, crime: us, suicide: us, hate: us, rape: us, torture: us, destruction: us, disease: us, terrorism: us, nuclear development: us.

Can't you see? Because we're so obsessed with being better than everyone else we try to get rid of the competition but then get shitcanned by someone else because they're supposedly better than you and you let yourself be defeated by them, no-one's perfect, especially me, try all you like to be best but there'll always be something more or to put you down, I'm not saying give up, I'm saying to make the most of your predicament.

So in simple words: Enjoy the silence while it lasts, because things are going to explode pretty soon.