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What will end mankind? (1 Viewer)

What will end mankind?

  • Robots realize we're useless and kill us all

    Votes: 15 7.4%

  • The Earth can no longer sustain life (slow changing event)

    Votes: 46 22.7%

  • Multiple nuclear events

    Votes: 29 14.3%

  • Meteorite/Dinosaur ending type of event

    Votes: 62 30.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 37 18.2%

  • Never ends

    Votes: 14 6.9%
  • Total voters
    203
Im optimistic some smart people in the future will figure out a way to get us off this rock in the distant future before it all goes to hell. Technology isnt slowing down, some nerd will figure out some hidden math equation to speed up space travel. I am a human optimist. Yea baby.

 
I am thinking some sort cosmic event such as an asteroid or huge gamma ray pulse. Something that is well beyond our control. There is always that thing about the sun going super nova which will end life here eventually.

 
A virus. The earth will get rid of us when it feels it can't sustain with us on the planet.

Simple as that.

 
The shutdown of Thermoheline circulation of course. Probably in the Gulf Stram like that movie.

 
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It is clearly the meteorite event...it's happened several times before, and it will happen again.(unless we find a way to change their path, which from a physics perspective is very difficult to do.

I do believe that global warming(man made or not), has the potential to result in massive food shortages, which would result in world wars and significant reduction in population, but not total human extinction. Habitats have always adjusted populations down when necessary.

 
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Todem said:
A virus. The earth will get rid of us when it feels it can't sustain with us on the planet.

Simple as that.
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Aside from an astronomical event, this is probably the best answer.

People won't be the end of people...simply because at some point, there aren't enough of us to kill us. You need someone with a nuke to kill people. After you blow up all the big cities with all the nukes, you can't make more, and there's nobody else left to push the button...but there's still millions of folks in the boonies to rebuild the world, albeit slowly.

It's got to be something beyond our control...and if it's not a big "boom" from a meteor or something, it's going to be a disease that kills fast and is hard to cure.

 
Virus is highly unlikely in today's environment. You would need to significantly reduce the world population before a virus could cause human extinction...particularly the remote populations. Amazon, arctic etc. etc.

 
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Fat Nick said:
It's got to be something beyond our control...and if it's not a big "boom" from a meteor or something, it's going to be a disease that kills fast and is hard to cure.
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Historically the best diseases for killing off populations, don't act fast...that is why ebola is not as effective at killing as it could be. People die so fast they don't have time to spread it.

The greater threats to massive population reduction are those that act slow, but still eventually kill.

 
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TripItUp said:
Fat Nick said:
It's got to be something beyond our control...and if it's not a big "boom" from a meteor or something, it's going to be a disease that kills fast and is hard to cure.
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Historically the best diseases for killing off populations, don't act fast...that is why ebola is not as effective at killing as it could be. People die so fast they don't have time to spread it.

The greater threats to massive population reduction are those that act slow, but still eventually kill.
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Historically, I agree...But historically, we haven't had a disease that truly risked mass extinction. A disease that kills everyone (or almost everyone) would have to have certain characteristics. I guess "kills fast" is the wrong term though. I get your point. It can't kill FAST, or nobody would be able to contract it in time. I think the ideal would be:

  • Easily spread via airborne and/or water transmission (i.e. NOT just STD or direct contact)
  • Nearly 100% fatal - Once you get it, you die.
  • Can't kill you too fast, ideally doesn't present symptoms until it's been in your system and able to be spread for a while...if you kill fast, you kill the host and stop the transmission.
  • Has to get into Madagascar before they close the borders. :bag:
 
conlilnew said:
Why does it matter? We all will have shuffled off this mortal coil long before the earth ceases to exist.
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May be true, but I hope the species that I was blessed to be born as, with the brain capable of contemplating such things continues to find a way to exist long after Im dead and buried.

 
Walking Boot said:
Something from off-planet. Outer space is a big, crazy place and lots of things that could mess up delicate stuff like us happens all the time. Surprised it hasn't happened yet. GRB, solar flare, big rock, something gonna get us eventually.
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Sounds like the Creepshow story.

 
TripItUp said:
It is clearly the meteorite event...it's happened several times before, and it will happen again.(unless we find a way to change their path, which from a physics perspective is very difficult to do.
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Nah, we'll just send Bruce Willis and Steven Tyler to battle those evil meteorites.

 
TripItUp said:
It is clearly the meteorite event...it's happened several times before, and it will happen again.(unless we find a way to change their path, which from a physics perspective is very difficult to do.
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Have you ever heard of Mr. Willis or Mr. Affleck? Yeah. We've got this covered.

 
Most worried about nuclear devices in the hands of people that wouldn't care about nuclear Armageddon. But not super worried about it. On the same level as an asteroid destroying life as we know it once again.

 
I think as long as the planet can sustain life that man will be here until something like a meteor or other unforeseen event triggers the end of mankind. Even a nuclear fallout, someone is going to survive that is launching nukes or got lost at the North Pole when WW III started.

 
Yeah got to go meteor or other space anomaly. Unless something like Yellowstone going set off a chain of events that tipped us in the direction of Venus with runaway greenhouse effect.

 
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