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There are only a few basic ways humans can be wiped out: From Within (i.e., we nuke each other to death), from Without (aliens/religious warring (i.e., Book of Revelation's Battle of Armagghedon), from Natural Disasters (hurricanes, meteors, etc.) and from planetary/cosmic occurences (Sun explodes, Big Crunch, etc.). Which one/ones do you think it will take for us to be EXTINCT?

Definatly an Asteroid.

Asteroid or when the sun eventually explodes/goes cold

Won't happen man, we'll be around forever. We just mightn't enjoy it.

How could you forget the zombie apocalypse?!?!?!

Well our star will expand to the point this planet won't be habitable any longer in about 500 million years.

THE END IS NIGH!

Well our star will expand to the point this planet won't be habitable any longer in about 500 million years.

THE END IS NIGH!
5000 million;)

Spelled correctly?

at what point do the four horsemen of the apocalypse ride into town?

Armageddon.

I voted "All". Because all of them were more true than the rest.

5000 million;)

5,000 million would be five billion. I don't think we have another five billion years on this rock. Granted five billion years is when it'll become a red giant and absorb this planet, but Earth will have been uninhabitable for eons before that.

I don't think we'll all end Matrix style but I think a man made virus, natural disasters (some ppl would survive) or something spacial maybe aliens....thou I think they'd be here by now or a giant astroid......anyway I'll probably be long dead by the time that happens.

5,000 million would be five billion. I don't think we have another five billion years on this rock. Granted five billion years is when it'll become a red giant and absorb this planet, but Earth will have been uninhabitable for eons before that.
I know, but you missed a 0 in your previous post;)

How could you forget the zombie apocalypse?!?!?!

It goes under From Without. HWich one depends on personal philosophy.

Cosmic Events is 2nd, along with I like pie. I like waffles is in 1st...

Due to a slight miscalculation involving nanotechnology and terraforming, the entire earth's surface will become an endless sea of mud and those that survive will eventually evolve into odd mud-based sentient life forms that bear a striking resemblance to the Creature for the Black Lagoon.

Of course, this is a worst-case scenario. It's possible that everything will proceed as planned. :)

5,000 million would be five billion. I don't think we have another five billion years on this rock. Granted five billion years is when it'll become a red giant and absorb this planet, but Earth will have been uninhabitable for eons before that.

It is five billion years till Ole Sol is due to go kablooie. Although, I seriously doubt that there will only be humans in this star system by the year 5000002006.

I voted for the evolution beyond humanity option. As soon as humanity discovers it can pork aliens it won't be long untill the species melts into the huge galactic melting pot.

It is five billion years till Ole Sol is due to go kablooie. Although, I seriously doubt that there will only be humans in this star system by the year 5000002006.

I voted for the evolution beyond humanity option. As soon as humanity discovers it can pork aliens it won't be long untill the species melts into the huge galactic melting pot.
I should hope we'd get off the rock sometime short of the 5,000 million year mark. Maybe someone should form a committee now, just to make sure.

The porking aliens incentive hadn't occurred to me, I have to admit, but I can see where that would be a big help.

The latest disaster for our solar system is that the United States has decided to go to Mars. And, of course, later we intend colonize deep space with our Salad Shooters and Snot Candy and microwave hot dogs. Can't you just sense how eager the rest of the universe is for us to show up?

[QUOTE=Farnhamia]I should hope we'd get off the rock sometime short of the 5,000 million year mark. Maybe someone should form a committee now, just to make sure.

I'll found it... and be the first to mine hydrogen on the Moon. ;) :)

gundges
:gundge: :gundge: :gundge:

headbangs no longer exist :mad: :( :( :(

I voted for the evolution beyond humanity option. As soon as humanity discovers it can pork aliens it won't be long untill the species melts into the huge galactic melting pot.

I'm not sure how. Humans can not mate with any other species on this planet, and we all evolved from common single celled ancestors.

What would be the odds of being sexually and biologically compatable with a species that evolved on an ENTIRELY different evolutionary track (star trek and hot half klingons not withstanding).

what we want it to be!

thanks to the mature folks at NS general we now have a landslide win for "I Like Waffes!" with 55%

Won't happen man, we'll be around forever. We just mightn't enjoy it.

Um, you're kidding right?

thanks to the mature folks at NS general we now have a landslide win for "I Like Waffes!" with 55%

Is Pie in second place :)

nuclear war

How about "From Within: Religious"?

As in, the major religions go (more) crazy and try to nuke all the evil heathen infidels.

BEWARE OF THE WAFFLES!!!

AND LOOK YE NOT AT THE PIES! THEY SHALL KILL YE!

Pies are apparntly more deadly than asteroids, gods and the Sun.....


Anyway, we all know we are going to be absorbed into the galactic Empire and ruled by evil people with glowing swords....

BEWARE OF THE WAFFLES!!!

AND LOOK YE NOT AT THE PIES! THEY SHALL KILL YE!

Pies are apparntly more deadly than asteroids, gods and the Sun.....


Anyway, we all know we are going to be absorbed into the galactic Empire and ruled by evil people with glowing swords....
And so the universe ended.

BEWARE OF THE WAFFLES!!!

AND LOOK YE NOT AT THE PIES! THEY SHALL KILL YE!

Pies are apparntly more deadly than asteroids, gods and the Sun.....


Anyway, we all know we are going to be absorbed into the galactic Empire and ruled by evil people with glowing swords....
Wait... that was a long time ago. In a galaxy far, far away.

BEWARE OF THE WAFFLES!!!

AND LOOK YE NOT AT THE PIES! THEY SHALL KILL YE!

Pies are apparntly more deadly than asteroids, gods and the Sun.....


Anyway, we all know we are going to be absorbed into the galactic Empire and ruled by evil people with glowing swords....

it is nice to know that, even in the face of inevitable doom, people are too centered on self-gratification to be serious... or the death of the universe's humans has something to do with my tastes...;) :p

ArmaJihad

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There are only a few basic ways humans can be wiped out: From Within (i.e., we nuke each other to death), from Without (aliens/religious warring (i.e., Book of Revelation's Battle of Armagghedon), from Natural Disasters (hurricanes, meteors, etc.) and from planetary/cosmic occurences (Sun explodes, Big Crunch, etc.). Which one/ones do you think it will take for us to be EXTINCT?

None of them is going to happen except for the Book of Revelations. However, even then, the human race will not become extinct.

at what point do the four horsemen of the apocalypse ride into town?

Whenever their respective seals are broken.

There are only a few basic ways humans can be wiped out: From Within (i.e., we nuke each other to death), from Without (aliens/religious warring (i.e., Book of Revelation's Battle of Armagghedon), from Natural Disasters (hurricanes, meteors, etc.) and from planetary/cosmic occurences (Sun explodes, Big Crunch, etc.). Which one/ones do you think it will take for us to be EXTINCT?
How about we just concentrate on being able to escape to other planets so we can avoid ( as a race ) all of the potential disasters except the final heat-death of the entire universe? :)

How about we just concentrate on being able to escape to other planets so we can avoid ( as a race ) all of the potential disasters except the final heat-death of the entire universe? :)

**Prepares intergalactic spaceship, planet livability scanners, and cyrogenic metabolic-freezing beds.**

Can't see it happening. Humans are worse than cockroaches.

None of them is going to happen except for the Book of Revelations.
Good thing he points out really early in that particular passage that IT'S a VISION and nothing else.


How will we go?
...
Anyone answer, Ennui?

Giant Jim Morrison made of fire sent by God to purge the unworthy.

Giant Jim Morrison made of fire sent by God to purge the unworthy.
...and to covet their mothers?

I think it'd be really, really difficult for anything short of a serious cosmic disaster to wipe out humans. Even a major asteroid, one that blots out the sun and freezes over most of the planet, is survivable: we have the technology to build heated greenhouses for food, etc. It wouldn't be pleasant to be around afterwards, but the only types of events that I see wiping out good ol' Homo sapiens sapiens are the kind that take literally the entire planet with them. So I suspect that our jolly little group of apes will eventually speciate (inevitable given sufficient time), or self-modify to the same end.

Also, why is there no Myrth option? I demand an answer!!!

I think it'd be really, really difficult for anything short of a serious cosmic disaster to wipe out humans. Even a major asteroid, one that blots out the sun and freezes over most of the planet, is survivable: we have the technology to build heated greenhouses for food, etc. It wouldn't be pleasant to be around afterwards, but the only types of events that I see wiping out good ol' Homo sapiens sapiens are the kind that take literally the entire planet with them. So I suspect that our jolly little group of apes will eventually speciate (inevitable given sufficient time), or self-modify to the same end.

Also, why is there no Myrth option? I demand an answer!!!

I only put Myrth in some polls... catch one and you may get a pot of gold!:p

gundges vs. Headbangs

:headbang: :gundge:

:headbang: :gundge:

:headbang: :gundge:

:headbang: :gundge:

I only put Myrth in some polls... catch one and you may get a pot of gold!:p

gundges vs. Headbangs

:headbang: :gundge:

:headbang: :gundge:

:headbang: :gundge:

:headbang: :gundge:
Gundges always win.

I'd say human civilization will live forever and then some of course we won't be human by the end of that but I'm happy as long as it means we no longer have to work (I don’t work anyway but that’s beside the point:p )

I didnt see the option : Exposed to 24 consecutive hours of Celine Dions singing

It is five billion years till Ole Sol is due to go kablooie. Although, I seriously doubt that there will only be humans in this star system by the year 5000002006.

Oh, long before then...

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive they may find

In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think do and say
Is in the pill you took today

In the year 4545
You ain't gonna need your teeth won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you

In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doing that for you

In the year 6565
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube

In the year 7510
If God's a comin' He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the judgement day

In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down and start again woh oh

In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's takin everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothin woh oh

Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through

But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find......

I went for cosmic event, but based on the number of people who voted for "I like waffles," maybe "From Within" would have been a better choice...

Ragnarok. Failing that, division by zero.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CLxMN5YMS3A

Agent Smith certainly put it well when he labelled humanity as a virus. This is a good thing for us, though. Virus' are notoriously impossible to beat. Here are thoughts, point by point:
From withinDoubtful. Massive genocides will occur, but it is highly unlikely that the entire species will be destroyed. We are too spread out too be killed out entirely by nukes or doomsday weapons, and in the absence of those, there will always be a victor of every way (no matter how phyrric the victory). It is technically possible to nuke *most* populated areas of earth if you approached it from a grid layout attack, but who would do that? In the event of a global nuke off, all of the nukes would be headed towards economic/government capitals, military bases, and other nukes. Rural areas would be safe. Another outside chance is a terrorist group like the one in Japan based on the idea of armageddon, still highly unlikely (although some of those pricks got busted in their secret west-Australian desert base. What were they doing there? Where do you find 40% of the world nuke-grade uranium? ;) )
From without: Aliens Again highly unlikely. In the rare event of us encountering intelligent life it will go one of two ways. If we found them, we will most probably be the superior life form, and we will invade/enslave them (The wackos will never tolerate peace). If they find us, then they will probably end up doing the same to us. However, I do not expect them to wipe us out entirely. They will most probably keep a number of us as slaves/souvenirs/scientific specimens.
From without: Religious This one we will be waiting forever for. Because god does not exist, and if he does, he is not concerned with our miniscule existence (think how big the universe is). However, if there is any successful armegeddon by any of the other listed means, I will guarantee that the delusional religious wackos will claim the credit. Now that I think about it, an armageddon by a bunch of prehistoric gods we know nothing about is on the cards, as well as elevation to a higher plane of existence upon realising we are god.
Natural Disaster Possible, but again unlikely. Mainly because we are prepared for most disasters in the developed world, we are a highly resistant species, and we are pretty adaptable. Further, in the 100,000 odd years of our existence so far we have not been wiped out by a natural disaster. As such we can expect just as long again before we do, by which time we will most probably be inhabiting places other than earth, thus no longer having all of our eggs in one basket. Upon review, pandemics would come under this category. A species wide pandemic could do it, but there would still probably be at least a few survivors, or we we will be spread enoug h to quarantine such a disease to earth.
Cosmic events This is the most likely of the lot, I think. Still it is terribly unlikely for the same reasons as Natural disater (100,000 years and running, plus potential galactic distribution). However, apparently there is a galaxy (perhaps andromeda?) which is carrening towards ours on a collision course, it will hit in some million or billion years time though. Nevertheless, leaving this solar system I can imagine, but leaving this galaxy?
None of the above: we will always exist I doubt it. Think how long eternity is. I don't see it happening. Something will bring this party down, but what?
We won't die; we will evolve/change our genes to not be humans This is about as likely as the cosmic event. However, even if we evolve into something else before extinction, extinction is still inevitable. This is a nice cop-out option, because humans cease to exist, but we are not faced with the ugly idea of extinction.
I don't know[/I] This is the best option. Mainly becase our extinction could arise from some kind of event incomprehensible to us now (planar shift, thus ceasing to exist in this reality, etc...)
I like waffles I do like waffles, however...
I like pie more.