How will the Human race end? (No zombies allowed)

[fates_puppet13]

nukes probably won't end us
disease probably won't without extra external factors
my most logical guess would be natural selection
the runner up being a combination of disaters and disease

 

[bobknowsall]

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..

Science goes wrong and does something stupid to the gene pool and DNA.

Plausible, kinda-plausible, plausible, not-really, thoroughly plausible, unlikely.

Resource collapse would cause civilization as we know it to drop to lower tech levels, but it wouldn't wipe us out.

Science is a more cautious conglomerate entity than you might think. Lots of testing, blind trials and control groups. We're meticulous like that.

 

[Zorg Machine]

what will kill off the world? the sun going supernova.
what will kill off the human race? genetical change and evolution.
what will kill off humanity? some guy with a mind controlling device (no free will=no humanity).

nukes won't kill us off permanently and I'm sure we will manage to make warp speed and terra forming (if only to appease the mighty god of sci-fi)

 

[hem dazon 90]

We're humans if we put a man on the moon then no pansy ass extinction event will hurt us. Eventually well be like the people of sand and slag (read it) at that point it will be impossible to knock us out

 

[loc978]

Whatever it is, we won't see it coming. If we know what's happening, some will find a way to survive.

 

[holographicman]

crazy person(s) with nukes
or a virus (either engineered or undiscovered)

though I think some people would survive in shelters
something that could wipe us all out (meteor) isn't as likely (I think)

 

[The Funslinger]

The chav population will flow across the world and drum out everything else. At this point, "humanity" will no longer exist.

A dark future awaits us. Maybe if we wait long enough they will wipe themselves out with inbreeding or take each other out.

Plus most of their women have that certain condition named after an azure toasted bread product...

I suppose if they start capturing human women, it's time to grab a shotgun and a pool cue and start hunting Yorkshire style? (northern chavs stole the yorkshire accent. >:O)

 

[blackflare]

The chav population will flow across the world and drum out everything else. At this point, "humanity" will no longer exist.

A dark future awaits us. Maybe if we wait long enough they will wipe themselves out with inbreeding or take each other out.

Plus most of their women have that certain condition named after an azure toasted bread product...

I suppose if they start capturing human women, it's time to grab a shotgun and a pool cue and start hunting Yorkshire style? (northern chavs stole the yorkshire accent. >:O)

1st mcdonalds then the world muhahaha

 

[KushinLos]

Providing there are breeding pairs, there will be humans for the rest of eternity. Even after genetic drift makes it impossible for whole populations to interbreed with other populations, they will all be human because that was what their ancestors were and you never truly stop being the same species your parents were.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

War were declared.

 

[Whateveralot]

Disease - Society will eventually become so locked-off from the enivronment that diseases are nearly impossible.

Nukes - Very possible, but humanity might just hold them back from eachother, because it's logic: if one uses a nuke, others will and it's inevitable, which is something everyone knows. And even then it won't make this world uninhabitable by humans, there will always be parts untouched by the fallout / radiation, no matter how impossible it seems.

Astroids - It won't be very long before our technology has risen to the point that even a comet of multiple miles in diameter will not be able to harm us; either by relocating the mass to another - less lethal - orbit, or simply blast it to pieces. At the moment; spotting it is harder than getting rid of it.

Our options?
I think that even now, humanity should work together on one huge project: building a space ship that can hold a population of tens of thousands of people and sustain them permanentely, or at least for thousands of years, to be sent in outerspace to explore nearby stars (which are still many, many generations away in even the fastest of space ships today).

 

[8-Bit Grin]

George Lucas makes another Star Wars movie.

You win.

/Thread.

 

[beeejay]

over population I will be the root cause. Then leading to war and weapons of mass destruction. I don't think it will be a huge armageddon type scenario with nukes detroying the world but it will be a factor.

 

[Chunga the Great]

Nuclear fire. Mankind has the technology required to erase himself, along with 99% of all other life, off the face of this earth. All man has to do is hit the red button, or pick up the red phone, and it's done. We're fucked. Vaporized. Gone. Extinct.

It would be absolutely impossible for the immediate impact of the nukes to destroy every human. Most nukes would be able to destroy a large city, not a small state. The aftermath will likely be what kills us off, but as someone here said, we are like cockroaches. There are too many of us to be completely destroyed.

 

[razor343]

Global Thermonuclear War.
Just because it sounds badass.

 

[PrototypeC]

My belief? It'll end with changes. Not destruction, but evolution. I think homo sapiens will come to an end when nothing resembling current humanity exists, due to different gravities, scientific meddling, differing social structures and climates on different colonized worlds and mega-ships.

Not everybody thinks we'll get that far, though... except the "sun burning out" people. Maybe I'm too optimistic.

 

[Faladorian]

Probably starvation, I'd say. That's how most species go, it's just not very dignified. It's a lot nicer to at least imagine our destruction being a huge, dramatic coup de grace when in reality it's less likely to be an Armageddon and more likely to be the (not so) gradual decrease in necessities (food, water, shelter).

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

Nano technology

 

[LightOfDarkness]

Alien virus.
I doubt that civilization won't have developed mass space interstellar transportation in 5 billion years. I do doubt that they would be able to develop a vaccine for the multitudes of viruses that are most likely in space, where life is sustainable.

OFF TOPIC:Zombies can't bring the downfall of the human race because
A: we know how to kill/eliminate their threat en masse
B: they do not produce body heat, and will freeze come winter
C: they don't heal and aren't smart, so half the zombie population will have been immobilized by many cuts, bruises, falls and broken bones or falling off bridges

I could go on

 

[Soushi]

When the universe begins to collapse in on itself again, a lone human will stand on the bridge of one of our great starships. As she watches the cosmos collapse in on themselves, she will turn to see the great arcs that humanity has built, vessels designed to carry humanity forward. As our Earth is once again returns unto dust and joins in the great cataclysm, she will say, in a clear voice that rings out the trillions of assembled humans, "The age of humanity is over. With this, a new age dawns. To the infant cosmos about to be born, we shall grant life. We shall stand and watch over the new stars, the new planets and the new consiounesses. And when that is done, humanity will dissolve into wispers upon the waves of light and thought, we shall evolve. Most importantly of all, we will be victorious over ourselves and over this, the greatest stage in the development of the universe." And she will turn back to the sight of the universe collapsing and she will say, "Humanity victorious."

I have enough faith in humaity that we won't end, we'll evolve.