How Will Humanity Become Extinct?

How Will Humanity Become Extinct?

  • Virus / Disease

    Votes: 8 10.3%

  • Asteroid / Meteor (Like the Dinosaurs)

    Votes: 11 14.1%

  • Climate Change / Global Warming

    Votes: 12 15.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 30 38.5%

  • 'Thanks for that, but stfu its not going to happen'

    Votes: 17 21.8%
  • Total voters
    78
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Quite simple really, how do you think we will become extinct? Or WILL we ever become extinct?

You're probably thinking along the lines of 'wow, what a morale-raising thread' or 'wtf, ban', but i just had a lecture on diseases at Uni (related to Global Development Issues)

We watched a Horizon episode on Pandemics, which focuses on the Bird Flu H5 strand, and how if/when it mutates so it can be transfered and easily affect humans, we are basically ***ked as we wont be able to fight against it.

Really got me and fellow students thinking : If this virus could effectively wipe a huge proportion of humans out and spread that quickly, what CAN we do?? If it mutates and spreads, will it be the end??
 
Personally, I think we won't go extinct. There may be all these people talking about global warming and this and that, but personally, we've adapted to things thus far, we will adapt to survive.

Unless dinosaurs come back, then we are screwed.
 
I don't think humanity will be wiped out unless there is such a catastrophic event that would make it completely, 100% impossible to survive. Like having the entire planet blow up or it's atmosphere completely changed or something.
 
Homo Sapien Sapeins will be extinct due to biogolical engineering, in effect we will upgrade ourselves.
 
If what we've done in the past 100 years puts us on course to another ice-age (worst case scenario? I think so), the human race still won't become extinct from an ice-age alone. Quality of life will suck, but we won't be finished.

A good sized asteroid could finish us off though.

Another possibility is perhaps a problem with the Earth's atmosphere that causes the sun's radiation to fry us, that would certainly kill us all off.
 
It's frickin impossible for climate change to wipe out humans, same for virii. The only plausable cause on that list is meteorite.
 
Dan said:
It's frickin impossible for climate change to wipe out humans, same for virii. The only plausable cause on that list is meteorite.
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Like I said in my post before, if our magnetic field "flips" (likely not due to climate change, but who knows. Perhaps a better question would be to define climate change before determining if it is based on climate change) we could be in for some trouble. Solar radiation on a global scale could certainly wipe us out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_magnetic_field#Magnetic_field_reversals
 
both the first option and the third one...... :D

enjoy your days before the end.
 
Baal said:
Like I said in my post before, if our magnetic field "flips" (likely not due to climate change, but who knows. Perhaps a better question would be to define climate change before determining if it is based on climate change) we could be in for some trouble. Solar radiation on a global scale could certainly wipe us out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_magnetic_field#Magnetic_field_reversals
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Earth's magnetic field isn't affected by the climate. Polarity reversal would fall under "other".
 
We can adapt to survive disease and climate change ... but I doubt we'll have the power to avoid an asteroid impact / black hole collision / dark matter explosion / supernova / random space catastrophe. Time conquers all, eventually.
 
We'll be destroyed by the very technology we create, like in a bad sci-fi movie.

Terminator1001.jpg
 
We can already detect asteroids that are a million or so miles away, plot a likely course, and list the likelyness of it hitting rather accurately. Then we probably have ways around it (lasers, nukes, etc) that will stop it happening. So slow moving objects is a no.
 
If we don't get wiped out by some space disaster (I'm looking at you gamma rays) we'll proboaly continue on. Once we start conolizing at a rpaid rate and control more and more worlds, our chances of bieng wiped by disasters is significantly reduced. But its still a good 100 years at least before we can begin terraforming.
 
We could always dig ourselves underground. That will prevent the entire race from extinction.
 
I think we'll find some other planet with intelligent life, piss them off because we're so up ourselves and they'll destroy us.
 
Well suck the world dry of usable resources and then the last humans will die to nature.
 
If we ever start colonising other planets then I doubt we will go exstinct. We may evolve on those planets, maybe? and have differemt evolutions on different planets after a long time, so we may go exstinct in that aspect.

If we dont colonise other planets then I bet we'll go exstinct cause of out own stupidity. We are destructive by nature.

Or we'll get wtfpwned by some asteroid.
 
we are going to run out of kittens to huff. then the dealers are gunna cause another war of kittens and then .. someone is gunna drop a nuke. then the mesopotamians are going to have to grow more grapes and cows for the kittens. The cows are going to evolve into manimals and start making machines that are powered by humans. Kinda like superman 3 and the Matrix...
 
We will destroy ourselves. Probably in some kind of war.
 
I don't think its going to be something so easily predictable. Probably zombies or something...
 
TCfromBN said:
Hahaha... Zombies...
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just you wait... in like 15 years theres gonna be zombies roaming around and im gonna just turn to you and give you a little nod as if to say "yup... what did i tell you?"
 
I'd love a zombie outbreak. Us hl2.netters will have to form a group and go pwn those zombies.
 
A combined force of chimps + spears and lesbian koalas will kill us.

oh and crab people! Crab People will turn all the men into gay pussies and take over the world!
 
CyberPitz said:
Personally, I think we won't go extinct. There may be all these people talking about global warming and this and that, but personally, we've adapted to things thus far, we will adapt to survive.

Unless dinosaurs come back, then we are screwed.
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Even to the end of the universe, we won't go extinct?
 
by the time an asteroid might hit us, we've long ago moved to another planet
 
I doubt we'll go extinct in the traditional way. We're too good at adapting. The most likely scenario is science/technology pushing us to something beyond a chimp with a little extra processing power.
 
It probably would start with global warming and then some crazy epidemic hits and then the finishing touch... an asteroid hits.
 
Baal said:
Like I said in my post before, if our magnetic field "flips" (likely not due to climate change, but who knows. Perhaps a better question would be to define climate change before determining if it is based on climate change) we could be in for some trouble. Solar radiation on a global scale could certainly wipe us out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_magnetic_field#Magnetic_field_reversals
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I thought our magnetic field flipped all the time?

Which would be why they call it MAGNETIC north.

Wrong?
 
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