How/When will the Human Race go Extinct?

[TewPoint0]

Do you think we have much time left as a species? Will we colonize other planets and travel in to deep space? Will we evolve? Will we be around to see our sun burn out?

With the way things are going I'm not convinced we'll be around for too much longer, but I'm interested to see what you all think...

 

[JAEGERX]

if this whole mass production to mass consumption continues its gonna be soon, we are not worthy, let another species have a chance

 

[HARRISON_3]

How?
Too much jerkin' it.

When?
Sometime next week

Spoiler

IMHO

 

[TewPoint0]

if this whole mass production to mass consumption continues its gonna be soon, we are not worthy, let another species have a chance

Maybe some catastrophic event will kill everyone but a small tribe in a rainforest on a tiny island somewhere. It would be cool if humans could have a second chance and learn from our mistakes.

 

[fbgn]

we will persist for ages then end in the most pathetic and least dramatic way possible

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

Robots

 

[fbgn]

humans-unreligious and religious alike-have a fascination with climactic endings and so those very dramatic ways of ending are popularized. meteors, so forth

in fact, there are, on a larger level, many ways for humans to end in a less than cinematic fashion. just our sense of time is based on our ages

i've always said successful marriages are such because humans don't live longer

 

[gotBooched]

i give humans as we know it another three thousand years or so. we are completely fucked as a species. the idea of a human watching the sun burn out....it's just not happening.

 

[TewPoint0]

we will persist for ages then end in the most pathetic and least dramatic way possible

Men evolve into such pussies they can no longer produce sperm.

Edit: Men wearing lip rings is an indication that my prediction is already immanent.

 

[ehtheist]

How:

When: Give it a few years...

 

[WrestlinganJudo]

Maybe some catastrophic event will kill everyone but a small tribe in a rainforest on a tiny island somewhere. It would be cool if humans could have a second chance and learn from our mistakes.

Individuals can learn from mistakes. The masses I don't know.

 

[WrestlinganJudo]

i give humans as we know it another three thousand years or so. we are completely fucked as a species. the idea of a human watching the sun burn out....it's just not happening.

Right, we are in trouble before it burns out. Maybe when it shifts to helium fusion we will be done for. Not exactly burning out yet.

 

[Mike]

Could be a lot of different things. I actually don't think it'll be overpopulation or complete depletion of resources. They'll start culling people before that happens. We might actually get out their and colonize other worlds someday. Humans kinda suck though, so I'm not exactly rooting for that to happen like I was as a kid.

 

[Thai Otoshi]

Assuming we won't be able to colonize any celestial bodies other than Mars and say Europa, Earth will probably be engulfed by Sol as it turned into a red giant, and those left on Mars or Europa would have quite the time surviving.

 

[fbgn]

Men evolve into such pussies they can no longer produce sperm.

Edit: Men wearing lip rings is an indication that my prediction is already immanent.

perhaps in some dramatic collective event, like a fabled dispersion of radiation which interferes with our cells' ability to interact but on the current genetic model, outliers are a beneficial part of some species. we've seen this in our primate and great ape relatives. sometime google 'fruit flies, homosexuality'

say if an animal species has limited spaces, then a species with a homosexual mutation would benefit because there'd be less competitive offspring amongst siblings, some of which retain propensities to procreate while others do not. in such a case, without a foreign variable outside the power of the species in question (trees suddenly stop producing fruit because of a parasite), they could achieve a certain degree of equilibrium

also the notion of men 'evolving' into pussies is largely based on religious notions of what a man is/isn't to be and somehow combines both the fallacies of religious and scientific communities into a particularly unholy concoction. unless said lip rings pose some threat to the procreative habits of men, then they are largely irrelevant. no less relevant than a peacock with its feathers

in that regard, it would be beneficial in the attraction of females

 

[Screwtape]

Homosapiens will become obsolete, getting annihilated and assimilated into whatever new man spins off via evolution. Like what happened to the Neanderthals.

Or the singularity.

Who cares? I'll be dead.

 

[TewPoint0]

perhaps in some dramatic collective event, like a fabled dispersion of radiation which interferes with our cells' ability to interact but on the current genetic model, outliers are a beneficial part of some species. we've seen this in our primate and great ape relatives. sometime google 'fruit flies, homosexuality'

say if an animal species has limited spaces, then a species with a homosexual mutation would benefit because there'd be less competitive offspring amongst siblings, some of which retain propensities to procreate while others do not. in such a case, without a foreign variable outside the power of the species in question (trees suddenly stop producing fruit because of a parasite), they could achieve a certain degree of equilibrium

also the notion of men 'evolving' into pussies is largely based on religious notions of what a man is/isn't to be and somehow combines both the fallacies of religious and scientific communities into a particularly unholy concoction

You're right, and honestly I don't have a problem with homosexual people...unless they have lip rings.

 

[bearVSshark]

I think we jumped the shark

 

[fbgn]

You're right, and honestly I don't have a problem with homosexual people...unless they have lip rings.

 

[Jack Handy jr]

Ideally in some ID4 type alien in vasion where we're using our F-22's and what ever we've got stashed at Area 51 to fight until the bitter end. where a few dozen of our human population will be displayed in some alien zoo throwing poop at our alien over lords leering children.