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How will the Human race end? (No zombies allowed)
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I reckon the world will end up doing that whole 'designer baby' thing and result in severely mucking up the genepool, causing serious mutations that will eventually kill us all. Alternatively the superpowers will end up creating a super weapon of mass destruction and we will have a similar case of the Cold War but weapons will actually be fired, all because they can't have their own way.
It would have to be a catastrophic, planet-killing cosmic event like a supernova or an enormous asteroid. Humanity has suffered through countless diseases and climate changes, but we are like cockroaches - some of us WILL survive no matter what, even if it's only 0.0001% of the current population.
We'll evolve into something else and then fail from there.
OH GOD IT'S ZE END OF ZE WORLD NOOOOOOOOOOOInsanum said:
Do I get a cookie?
The world will end because no one will reproduce. Scientists have discovered that they can combine the genetics of two female mice and produce viable offspring, but (obviously) the offspring is always female. I think eventually this technology will make it to the human level, and slowly men will die off (as male-female relationships sometimes result in men or women, but female female would always be female, so there are more women being born), and because sexuality isn't a choice (my opinion, anyway), the human race dies off when there are no men and a bunch of straight women who don't want children by other women.
Yup.
Yup.
I doubt than anything will, unless it's the sun dying thing. We are in many ways, very much like a virus, and one of those ways is that we are damn hard to kill off. I suspect that within the century, war or economic collapse will destroy most of our civilization, throwing us back to the stone age. However, I find it likely that enough of us will survive to continue the race and eventually repopulate. Maybe, if that happens, we will learn not to kill the shit out of the environment and eachother, but i doubt it. vicious cycle anyone? If we ever manage to break the cycle long enough to populate other planets or even solar systems, than it would be almost impossible for our race to go extinct.
I don't know about the whole human race, but I know for sure America's screwed when the Yellowstone super volcano goes off.
And if it happens when I'm alive, then I'm dead for sure, since I'm way too close for comfort, even I'm over 300 miles away... I'll still get buried in the ashes.
Sobering thought.....
And if it happens when I'm alive, then I'm dead for sure, since I'm way too close for comfort, even I'm over 300 miles away... I'll still get buried in the ashes.
Sobering thought.....
War - Most likely
Global Warming - In the UK anyway we're gonna freeze in the next 50 years when the gulf stream stops..
Disease - We're overdue but it would have to be a disease immune to antibiotics..
Resource collapse - Oil's sell-by date is fast approaching
Asteroid, solar flare, super volcano and anything else which can drastically change the climate or has explosive power..
Nazi re-invasion in 2018.. wait... what..
Science goes wrong and does something stupid to the gene pool and DNA..
Those little micro-organisms that NASA found the other day that turn phosphorous into arsenic..
Generally my bet is with any of the above for short term, for a inter-world human empire I'd say it will be our own in-fighting or vastly superior alien races..
Global Warming - In the UK anyway we're gonna freeze in the next 50 years when the gulf stream stops..
Disease - We're overdue but it would have to be a disease immune to antibiotics..
Resource collapse - Oil's sell-by date is fast approaching
Asteroid, solar flare, super volcano and anything else which can drastically change the climate or has explosive power..
Nazi re-invasion in 2018.. wait... what..
Science goes wrong and does something stupid to the gene pool and DNA..
Those little micro-organisms that NASA found the other day that turn phosphorous into arsenic..
Generally my bet is with any of the above for short term, for a inter-world human empire I'd say it will be our own in-fighting or vastly superior alien races..
Hopefully, We'll be able to expand out into the farthest reaches of space instead of killing ourselves on Earth and ending it here. So in that case i would have to say Heat Death [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_Death].....
Also, i cannot Believe i just wrote something THAT optimistic. The cynic in me....can't LOOK at me in shame right now.
Also, i cannot Believe i just wrote something THAT optimistic. The cynic in me....can't LOOK at me in shame right now.
You might not get covered in ashes but you could and likely will die from the resulting temperature drop or starvation causing by falling temperatures..Dorkamongus said:
Have fun preparing for the apocalypse, you've got a maximum of 100,000 years to get ready..