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I think it will be of our own doing that will end this planet as our home. Some cosmic disaster is a far slide, but nulcear war seems not only likely but immenent. that or perhaps globle warming. I dont think it will be superintelligant AI they can be defeated by simply cutting the power, but nuclear war would leave behind waste material that would have to decay for nearly a thousand years before it would be safe to go into that area again.
And globle warming; I dont really no what to say about that.

I think it will be of our own doing that will end this planet as our home. Some cosmic disaster is a far slide, but nulcear war seems not only likely but immenent. that or perhaps globle warming. I dont think it will be superintelligant AI they can be defeated by simply cutting the power, but nuclear war would leave behind waste material that would have to decay for nearly a thousand years before it would be safe to go into that area again.
And globle warming; I dont really no what to say about that.

The chances that one day we will be hit by a meteor that will destroy life as we know it are 100%. Unless something else destroys it first.

The chances that one day we will be hit by a meteor that will destroy life as we know it are 100%. Unless something else destroys it first.

Getting hit by a meteor is an almost certanty but not for a couple thousand years. Nuclear war could start tommorow next week or in the next few minutes. With the way bush acts on impulse; he'd probably nuke Iran or Korea just because he can.

I think it will be of our own doing that will end this planet as our home. Some cosmic disaster is a far slide, but nulcear war seems not only likely but immenent. that or perhaps globle warming. I dont think it will be superintelligant AI they can be defeated by simply cutting the power, but nuclear war would leave behind waste material that would have to decay for nearly a thousand years before it would be safe to go into that area again.
And globle warming; I dont really no what to say about that.

I think you greatly overestimate humanity's power and importance on earth. When we're long gone, Earth will be fine. We're barely a blip on the radar screen.

On the other hand, we can probably come up with some fun ways of ending humanity. :)

Another world war would be bad for the human population too, millions died in WWII and the atomic bomb didnt come until the end of the war. Now the United states and the Russian Republic ( both of which stay on nuke launch readiness at all times ) have enough nukes to kill eight billion people. there are only six and a half billion on the earth.

I think you greatly overestimate humanity's power and importance on earth. When we're long gone, Earth will be fine. We're barely a blip on the radar screen.

On the other hand, we can probably come up with some fun ways of ending humanity. :)

nanotechnology was a funny one, little robots built to kill the bugs and bacteria on our food suddenly go haywire and kill all the crops inducing globle famine. Right.:rolleyes:

I think it will be of our own doing that will end this planet as our home. Some cosmic disaster is a far slide, but nulcear war seems not only likely but immenent. that or perhaps globle warming. I dont think it will be superintelligant AI they can be defeated by simply cutting the power, but nuclear war would leave behind waste material that would have to decay for nearly a thousand years before it would be safe to go into that area again.
And globle warming; I dont really no what to say about that.

G-L-O-B-A-L.

And stop watching History Channel re-braodcasts of 20/20 "documentaries" which are designed solely to increse the already too-high level of fear in the world. You even typed your post in the exact order the show listed the postential end-of-the-world scenarios. The only one you left out was the supervolcano fake-scare.

Live your life, brother -- 'cause if any of that shit happens, there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it. Why fear when you can live?

Oh yeah; and I read an artical about a supermassive black hole migrating to the milkyway and ripping our solar system from the sky. That would be fucking hiliarious. If I had to choose a way to die that would be choise number one.

G-L-O-B-A-L.

And stop watching History Channel re-braodcasts of 20/20 "documentaries" which are designed solely to increse the already too-high level of fear in the world. You even typed your post in the exact order the show listed the postential end-of-the-world scenarios. The only one you left out was the supervolcano fake-scare.

Live your life, brother -- 'cause if any of that shit happens, there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it. Why fear when you can live?

Im not afraid; just thought it would be an interesting discussion destroying the crackhead scientists dreams of predicting a correct end of the world scenario. The world will end eventually; but we wont ever discover exactly how it will end until ( pause to seem dramatic ) it actually happens

G-L-O-B-A-L.

And stop watching History Channel re-braodcasts of 20/20 "documentaries" which are designed solely to increse the already too-high level of fear in the world. You even typed your post in the exact order the show listed the postential end-of-the-world scenarios. The only one you left out was the supervolcano fake-scare.

Live your life, brother -- 'cause if any of that shit happens, there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it. Why fear when you can live?

False scare? It's a very real threat. Admittedly one we can do jack shit about--I myself live close enough to be killed in the initial eruption were it to be a Yellowstone eruption--but it's harldy false. I, however, am not going to worry about it.

However, many other possibilities ARE preventable. Medical technology can prevent plagues and pandemics. Human action and sensible programming can prevent any number of possible mechanical endings--nanites, rampant A.I.'s, robots, what have you can all be taken care of if we're not stupid about it. Nuclear warfare is also preventable quite easily if--again--we're not stupid. Collisions with asteroids, meteors, comets, ect may yet be preventable with proper technology, though we can hardly blow them up right next to the planet and expect to be saved. (I'm looking at you Deep Impact and Armageddon.)

Now, of course, the amount of action the average person on the block can do to stop any of this is minimal, but some of these people will turn into those who will be in a position to stop them. Can we do anything about them? Yes. Yes we can.

But, other than that, you're right: don't worry about it. I know I'm not going to.

I heard a theory that if a star that was too nearby or too large went supernova, the Earth would be bombarded by gamma rays that would wipe out life in general. There's pretty much no way to stop it, either, since gamma waves apparently move at the speed of light, meaning that we wouldn't know it was coming until it was literally right on top of us.

I heard a theory that if a star that was too nearby or too large went supernova, the Earth would be bombarded by gamma rays that would wipe out life in general. There's pretty much no way to stop it, either, since gamma waves apparently move at the speed of light, meaning that we wouldn't know it was coming until it was literally right on top of us.

You wanna know something funny? The very second before that happens, somebody in the world will get run over by a Mac truck and die instantly. I find that hilarious.

I heard a theory that if a star that was too nearby or too large went supernova, the Earth would be bombarded by gamma rays that would wipe out life in general. There's pretty much no way to stop it, either, since gamma waves apparently move at the speed of light, meaning that we wouldn't know it was coming until it was literally right on top of us.

It's called a gamma ray burst, and it too was part of the History Channel re-broadcast.

Yawn.

I heard it through the grapvine (actually I heard it from the grapevine. Man I shoudn't smoke that shit) that no matter how mankind ends up dying, that 7 foot tall platypi will be the next dominant species on earth.

I heard it through the grapvine (actually I heard it from the grapevine. Man I shoudn't smoke that shit) that no matter how mankind ends up dying, that 7 foot tall platypi will be the next dominant species on earth.

Excellent choice!

My first pick would be the skunks. I like skunks. :)

You wanna know something funny? The very second before that happens, somebody in the world will get run over by a Mac truck and die instantly. I find that hilarious.
Yeah, they miss all the fireworks.
It's called a gamma ray burst, and it too was part of the History Channel re-broadcast.

Yawn.

S'true though.

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqHct8oD6M4)

http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm

Have fun.

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqHct8oD6M4)
If there was ever a time to post this (http://funnyjunk.com/pages/world.htm)...

Least I think that's it. Firefox is playing up.

If there was ever a time to post this (http://funnyjunk.com/pages/world.htm)...

...it would be next tuesday after tea, when some random poster breaks his or her mind after reading a post by some troll, and goes on a completely insane rampage here on NSG before setting out to destroy the world?

...it would be next tuesday after tea, when some random poster breaks his or her mind after reading a post by some troll, and goes on a completely insane rampage here on NSG before setting out to destroy the world?

Yes.



That should be the End of Ze World flash thingy? I'm taking it on faith that they haven't changed the link to pr0n...

Well according to the Terminator trilogy--which I just did a binge marathon of, and I haven't even ever SEEN Terminator III before--Skynet will kill us all wif nuclear warfare.

(Am I the only one extremely pissed off and disappointed by Terminator III's ending? How Skynet managed to start the nuclear war anyway? How no matter what they did they couldn't stop it? Pissed me off. I'd hoped with the third cycle of the timeline they'd stop it, but no. Nononono, of course not. Fuck.)

you are forgetting that the superintelligent AI could just emulate us to predict every single move we make and use that to secure its existance.

I heard a theory that if a star that was too nearby or too large went supernova, the Earth would be bombarded by gamma rays that would wipe out life in general. There's pretty much no way to stop it, either, since gamma waves apparently move at the speed of light, meaning that we wouldn't know it was coming until it was literally right on top of us.

Well the star concerned would have to be within something like 50 light years for a start for the gamma rays to be intense enough to reach groud level, however if a star like Sirus went supernova (dist. 8 light years) the people facing the star would be the lucky ones as they'd be fried by the radiation, the ones on the other side of the planet would face dying as the radiation pressure stripped the atmosphere off.

However given the previous nuclear war scenario, due to the distribution and numbers of humans over the planet, there will always be some survivors, the same goes for every other disaster you can think of

you are forgetting that the superintelligent AI could just emulate us to predict every single move we make and use that to secure its existance.

See, the idea is to program failsafes to keep the A.I. from reaching that level of intelligence in the first place. We have plenty of warnings from fiction about the danger of intelligent A.I.'s, so I'd think we'd be able to program said failsafes.

I think it will be of our own doing that will end this planet as our home. Some cosmic disaster is a far slide, but nulcear war seems not only likely but immenent. that or perhaps globle warming. I dont think it will be superintelligant AI they can be defeated by simply cutting the power, but nuclear war would leave behind waste material that would have to decay for nearly a thousand years before it would be safe to go into that area again.
And globle warming; I dont really no what to say about that.

It's gonna be global warming. No superintelligent AIs or any of that shit.

My favorite end of the world scenario, rogue neutron star.

It's perfect, we'd see it coming, this tiny little dot of faint light, about the size of a small city, with the gravity of our sun. Bonus points for Magnetar. Once it got within about 1000 kilometers we'd be torn apart on the molecular level by the diamagnetic effect of water. It'd literally rip us apart with it's magnetic field. Of course long before it did that it'd destroy our electronics. A 10 gigatelsa magnetic field could wipe out every credit card on the planet from a distance half way to the moon. Tidal effects would be a bitch too.

From all the ads for Viagra and Cialis and shit you'd think that erectile dysfunction was the greatest threat facing our species' survival.

From all the ads for Viagra and Cialis and shit you'd think that erectile dysfunction was the greatest threat facing our species' survival.
Well, actually... (http://www.exitmundi.nl/Sperm%20problem.htm)

It's just as likely that the entire planet will be overrun by a malfunctioning TasteeFreeze machine.

I think it will be of our own doing that will end this planet as our home. Some cosmic disaster is a far slide, but nulcear war seems not only likely but immenent. that or perhaps globle warming. I dont think it will be superintelligant AI they can be defeated by simply cutting the power, but nuclear war would leave behind waste material that would have to decay for nearly a thousand years before it would be safe to go into that area again.
And globle warming; I dont really no what to say about that.

What is nulcear war? That isn't in my dictionary (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nulcear)... (Neither is globle.)

As for simply cutting the power of a "superintelligant" (whatever that might be - another wordn not in the dictionary) AI, we didn't se 2001, did we?

Nuclear war? That threat is way overblown, and the idea that it will leave large parts of the surface uninhabitable due to "waste material" is demonstrably untrue - you are welcome to come visit when I return to Japan in January and I will take you to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.


G-L-O-B-A-L.

And stop watching History Channel re-braodcasts of 20/20 "documentaries" which are designed solely to increse the already too-high level of fear in the world. You even typed your post in the exact order the show listed the postential end-of-the-world scenarios. The only one you left out was the supervolcano fake-scare.

Live your life, brother -- 'cause if any of that shit happens, there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it. Why fear when you can live?

Aha. That's what he's on about.

Excellent choice!

My first pick would be the skunks. I like skunks. :)

Heheh. It would be. ;)

It's just as likely that the entire planet will be overrun by a malfunctioning TasteeFreeze machine.

Tasty choice! :cool: