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The dinosuars ended by a shower of meterorites, which resulted dust and dirt covering up the sun, which killed plants, which in turn kill the plant eating dinosuars, which in turn killed the meat eating dinosuars.

So, how do you think the Human Race will end?

My vote is that we'll destory ourselves when tensions finally break and every country that has a Nuclear weapon uses it on their worst enemy.

Cthulhu will rise from the dead city of Ry'leh and wreak havoc on the tortured remnants of mankind.

Fire or ice.

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Unicron.

Nuclear war, environmental catastrophes, or bioweaponry out of control.

Fire or ice.

Well I doubt it will be ice, but I'm not going to say why. I want to keep this discussion on track.

Also I think Nuclear weapons would fall under fire.

Fire or ice.

Traditionally isn't it meant to be 'the fire next time'?

Unless a means of interstellar travel becomes available and a suitable planet for habitation is found, when the sun goes nova or dies out in 9 or 10 billion years.

Grey goo.

Traditionally isn't it meant to be 'the fire next time'?
I don't know what you're talking about, but my post was an intentional misquote of the name of a Robert Frost poem. :)

"Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice."

Unless a means of interstellar travel becomes available and a suitable planet for habitation is found, when the sun goes nova or dies out in 9 or 10 billion years.
I have a sneaking suspicion that good ol' Homo sapiens sapiens will be gone a long, long, LONG time before that happens.

Pirates.... or ninjas....

Hmmm, will it end on Dec. 22/21, 2012?

I don't know what you're talking about, but my post was an intentional misquote of the name of a Robert Frost poem. :)

"Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice."


I was harking back to the old spiritual myself:

God gave Noah the rainbow sign don't you see
God gave Noah the rainbow sign don't you see
God gave Noah the rainbow sign no more water but the fire next time
Hide me, O Rock of Ages, cleft for me

Hmmm, will it end on Dec. 22/21, 2012?
No.

I was harking back to the old spiritual myself:

God gave Noah the rainbow sign don't you see
God gave Noah the rainbow sign don't you see
God gave Noah the rainbow sign no more water but the fire next time
Hide me, O Rock of Ages, cleft for me
Never heard that before, some sort of hymn or something?

No.

But the Myans calender! The Bible Codes! THE TIN FOIL HATS! :p

Never heard that before, some sort of hymn or something?

It's a song based on the Noah story from the Old Testament. God made the rainbow as a sign of the pact he made with Noah that he would not destory the world with water anymore. That why I said I doubt it would be ice next time.


Please let's not turn this into a theological debate.

Never heard that before, some sort of hymn or something?

Negro spiritual which lives on in the bluegrass repertoire.

It's a song based on the Noah story from the Old Testament. God made the rainbow as a sign of the pact he made with Noah that he would not destory the world with water anymore. That why I said I doubt it would be ice next time.


Please let's not turn this into a theological debate.
I'm familiar with the story, I was asking about the words/song themselves.

Negro spiritual which lives on in the bluegrass repertoire.
The things you learn on NS general, eh?

But the Myans calender! The Bible Codes! THE TIN FOIL HATS! :p
NO! Don't use the tinfoil hats! You will only facilitate their mind-control rays! (http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/)

NO! Don't use the tinfoil hats! You will only facilitate their mind-control rays! (http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/)

Ahh that's intresting, kind of a online verison of the MythBusters!

Ahh that's intresting, kind of a online verison of the MythBusters!

I left-carrot 3 MIT. (<3, for the keyboard-challenged)

I left-carrot 3 MIT. (<3, for the keyboard-challenged)

ummm k?

But the Myans calender! The Bible Codes! THE TIN FOIL HATS! :p

I'm still waiting for that earth quake in California. It has 10 days to happen or else the bible code is wrong!!
The next pope is the antichrist...
REPENT SINNERS!!!

I'm still waiting for that earth quake in California. It has 10 days to happen or else the bible code is wrong!!
The next pope is the antichrist...
REPENT SINNERS!!!

Hey, you still got 10 days, better stock up! lol.

I dunno, Wouldn't the Anti-Christ get burned if he steps into a church? The Vatican is basically one big church! (I'm Catholic so yea)

I HAVE REPENTED LAST SUNDAY IN CONFESSION!

I dunno, Wouldn't the Anti-Christ get burned if he steps into a church?

Nah, it doesn't burn. It kinda itches though. I got one helluva rash.

We won't end. We'll just be conquered.

We'll make great pets!

Porno For Pyros
Pets

by N/A
Children are innocent
a teenager's fucked up in the head
adults are even more fucked up
and elderlies are like children

will there be another race
to come along and take over for us?
maybe martians could do
better than we've done
we'll make great pets! X8

[Guitar solo]

my friend says we're like the dinosaurs
only we are doing ourselves in
much faster than they
ever did
we'll make great pets! X8

[Guitar Solo]

we'll make great pets! X8

Not with a bang but a whimper. (http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~evans/hollow.html)

What the heck? *laughs* :D I think it'll either end by global warming, WWIII or The Great Lion of Judah himself will kill us all and then take the good ones to heaven.

I'm still waiting for that earth quake in California. It has 10 days to happen or else the bible code is wrong!!
The next pope is the antichrist...
REPENT SINNERS!!!

I actually look up the earthquake, and this is what I got. Pretty vague if you ask me.

http://www.exodus2006.com/L0rd%20kyr0N/December2005.htm

Yea I'll be watching that too. Hmm, maybe the Earthquake in Lousiana counts.

Hey, you still got 10 days, better stock up! lol.

I dunno, Wouldn't the Anti-Christ get burned if he steps into a church? The Vatican is basically one big church! (I'm Catholic so yea)

I HAVE REPENTED LAST SUNDAY IN CONFESSION!

And we have eleven or twelve days until nukes are found in Syria, leading to WWIII.

Not with a bang but a whimper.

Isn't that from The Stand?

So, how do you think the Human Race will end?
with someone tripping over, causing a mass pileup :D

Isn't that from The Stand?
It's originally from the poem "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot, but it is widely quoted.

And we have eleven or twelve days until nukes are found in Syria, leading to WWIII.

Yea, like I said, I'll be watching it too. I was just joking around with the whole thing really. I believe Jesus said it best when he said "The end will come like a thief in the night, no one will know the time or day."

Cthulhu will rise from the dead city of Ry'leh and wreak havoc on the tortured remnants of mankind.

Well, I for one welcome our new lord and master.

Well, I for one welcome our new lord and master.
Then you will be among the last of us "cattle" it eats. ;)

Like Ive said many times in the past on here, humans will no longer be able to effectively acquire oil and several other vital natural resources in about 20-30 years, then as businessess collapse and people can no longer travel long distances (because we've been too busy driving H2s rather than Priuses) society will start to slowly crumble, and I'm guessing that what once were cities, will turn into little factions that will start warring with neighboring factions for precious resources (in my area, water will be one of them) and then we will eventually kill ourselves off, or evolve into a totally different animal.

...But that will never happen because we're fighting the Global War on Terror, to protect our children and grandchildren, right?

The world shall end on my birthday, The sky will rain blood and you shalt all drown in that which once gave you life!!! :O

And then from the blood I shall rise and take my rightful place as the ruler of a dead world!!! :D

I will eat you all. Then my stomach will explode, killing me.

Captain Trips. :gundge:

How will it end? By my hand. :mp5: When will it end? When I deem you all no longer within the reach of salvation. Fortunately for me, that day draws near.

Fire or ice.

Well I doubt it will be ice, but I'm not going to say why. I want to keep this discussion on track.

Also I think Nuclear weapons would fall under fire.

I believe you've missed the point... (and I must say, Nadkor; yours is quite the scholarly post.)


Fire and Ice

SOME say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

-Robert Frost

(I suddenly realized that you had already posted the poem after I wrote this ...)

Heh. Here, take your pick. I think this covers just about everything... (http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm)

But, personally, my money's on sheer stupidity doing us in.

A series of natural disasters that get increasingly more destructive until, in 502 years, 34 days, 6 hours, 28 minutes and 9 seconds time, there is nothing left. Fear me Nostradamus.

You havent allowed for the Harlesburg factor.

My vast Armies sweep the plains of the earth before it gets destroyed in World War V

Like Ive said many times in the past on here, humans will no longer be able to effectively acquire oil and several other vital natural resources in about 20-30 years, then as businessess collapse and people can no longer travel long distances (because we've been too busy driving H2s rather than Priuses) society will start to slowly crumble, and I'm guessing that what once were cities, will turn into little factions that will start warring with neighboring factions for precious resources (in my area, water will be one of them) and then we will eventually kill ourselves off, or evolve into a totally different animal.

...But that will never happen because we're fighting the Global War on Terror, to protect our children and grandchildren, right?

An interesting theory, I suppose, but I severely disagree with your analysis. I see a dichotomy regarding humankinds' future; either we evolve as we always have and continue to replace fading resources with new ones, or we die a quick and tragic death. Concerning the latter, it may be inevitable so I see no point in fretting about it. I'm going to live my life as I have.

NYE2000! Judgement day! The lord will come again and all will be accountable-...<checks watck>... oh :( i see, well don't I feel stupid.

Then you will be among the last of us "cattle" it eats. ;)

Yay!

Airborn Ebola is always good for a laugh!!!;)

Unless a means of interstellar travel becomes available and a suitable planet for habitation is found, when the sun goes nova or dies out in 9 or 10 billion years.

Correction! The sun does have a projected lifetime of 9-10 Billion years but its already been around for about 5 Billion years so the sun will probably become nova or die out in about 5 Billion years! Space Scietists Hurry UP!

So, how do you think the Human Race will end?
A tie.

I don't know but I've been told
I don't know but I've been told
The end of the world be mighty cold
The end of the world be mighty cold
Protect the Dodo way of life!
Obviously.

Like Ive said many times in the past on here, humans will no longer be able to effectively acquire oil and several other vital natural resources in about 20-30 years, then as businessess collapse and people can no longer travel long distances (because we've been too busy driving H2s rather than Priuses) society will start to slowly crumble, and I'm guessing that what once were cities, will turn into little factions that will start warring with neighboring factions for precious resources (in my area, water will be one of them) and then we will eventually kill ourselves off, or evolve into a totally different animal.

...But that will never happen because we're fighting the Global War on Terror, to protect our children and grandchildren, right?

Unfortunately if vital resources like oil do run out in 20-30 years the collapse of society will not be slow. War will break out long before then to secure the last of the oil or to fend off the armies from the oil rich countries that now have no economy or basic income. You may have noticed the estimates for the end of fossil fuels are dynamic as our machines become more efficient. Granted China and India will soon consume much more there is no way the world powers will let the fossil fuels run out without either a fight or a contingency plan. (There are other sources of power) There is no doubt there will be strife and probably war with the decrease in fossil fuels but to speak of them as the slow end of humanity is utter foolishness. There will be plenty of stock left when the bombers take off to secure the rest and the bullets will fire no matter what. If the resulting war does not kill of humanity (which I doubt it would) the rest will reorganize as they always do.

The end will come when we all just collectively stop trying.

Well one person will come in first and then the race is over

Not with a bang but a whimper. (http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~evans/hollow.html)

I've always loved that poem it makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

Don't think the world will end atall untill the sun expands in billions of years and engulfs it.

Don't think the human race will die out, were arguably the most adaptable species ever, but I don't think the earth can sustain this 6bn popn indefinitely, there will be a crash.

Wars will always happen.

A return to small unsophisticated societies might be nice.

Neanderthol's were around for over 250,000 years.

Home Sapiens have been around for about 40,000 years and only started recording history 6,000 years ago.

The Universe is billions upon billions of years old (picture Carl Sagan when you read that).

Now, I'm 34 years old, and I can already see as the years have gone by that 6,000 years goes by extremely fast.

Our leaders speak of tradition, 'the ways it has always been', and maintaining the status quo. American ego-centrists think the US has always been in power and always will be--they've been a superpower for barely 50-60 years. Stereotypical family models in the 50's had women in dresses and aprons vacuuming cheerfully, a.k.a. Donna Reed, while playing with her new blender. Where was Donna Reed when the earth's surface was a blazing inferno that engulfed asteroids by the thousands in explosive bursts of energy larger than the force of all of our nuclear weapons combined?

As far as the Universe is concerned, Earth, a tiny spec of dust, circling a slightly larger glowing spec of dust, caught up in a miniscule wisp of a sand cloud we call a galaxy--Earth... has caught a head cold.

She will eventually take her aspirin.
(or 'his'... I wouldn't want to be sexist)

Originally Posted by Augustino
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Or, for anyone who has read that old sci-fi story (Of course, I don't remember which one. I think it was by Frederick Pohl), it will end when we tick off every other species in the universe, and must fight for survival against the enemy, eventually being reduced to one man, in one ship, kept immortal by our most advanced technologies. And when only that man is left, the ship will run.

At relativistic speeds, the enemy will not be able to catch him, and so for aeons, one man, the last of his species, will fly through space, until finally, the Universe contracts backwards into a tiny ball, and all things are destroyed. Then, the human race will die, not with a whimper, but with a roar of defiance. We will have tied.

Unless a means of interstellar travel becomes available and a suitable planet for habitation is found, when the sun goes nova or dies out in 9 or 10 billion years.


Most likely we die at the hands of an alien race. After of course we colonize foreign planets and wreak havoc on the enviroments there. Alien beings will decide that humans are much to destructive. An ensuing "Star Wars" breaks out and we get the short end of the stick.