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How long do you think Humanity has to exist in our current form or some other way yet unknown? Do you think we will go out quickly in the the grand scale of time sense or will we live long and prosper? How say you?

Until 2012 damn it! 2012 were all D00M!!!!! D00M I tell you! :p

Given the world average lifespan is currently 70, then humanity will disappear in the next 49 years. It could be more, it could be less of course, but the moment I start composting is the moment humanity vanishes as I won't be there to witness it.

We predict that humanity and/or her offshoots will end sometime between one second from now to one googol years from now.

Well, as I stare here at the charge timer on my death ray it read 10 minutes and 45, 44, 43, 42, 41, 40 seconds and counting.

Depends. Do you think Magneto has a plan?

Is this topic a seasonal thing?

Does NSG get depressed over the summer?

...Or something?

As soon as I get this Doomsday device up and running, darn thing is always on the fritz.

*Psh* Doomsday device, death ray? Please, child's play.

I have hacked the Pentagon's satellite and ground radar. Right now they think they're seeing Iranians nuclear warhead heading towards cities in Israel, including Jerusalem. By 9:00 AM EST, we pretty much should be dead.

Is this topic a seasonal thing?

Does NSG get depressed over the summer?

...Or something?

Who is saying anything about Depression here? It's a question that I had spun off another thread. Not depressing at all however we all know we will die as a race at some point. Just looking for predictions.

When I first read the title, I read "How long before Hannity disappears?", and I thought to myself, "Not soon enough..."

Man a loooong, looong time yet.

Wow.

I'd have said some pockets of humanity might survive - but looking at the poll,
I declare this thread pantless!

We're doomed.*


*German Nightmare is not wearing any pants

meh the Sun will prolly heat the Earth up to the level where the all the plants die and us with it soon enough :/ (only 500 million years left and I figure we will fuck up at least once before then) (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/death_of_earth_000224.html)

either that or we will just stop caring like those colonists in that movie that I will not mention for fear of being viewed as a fanboy

Fortunately, 500 million years is more than enough time to either:
(1) colonzie other places
or
(2) prevent the sun from overheating

Fortunately, 500 million years is more than enough time to either:
(1) colonzie other places
or
(2) prevent the sun from overheating

yeah but like I said I predict we will screw this up and have at least one good old nuclear winter given time which kinda necessitates a mad dash or at least getting started on the explosions early

also everyone seems awfully confident that we can pull off the scientific marvels you suggest which given our resources can only happen by some sort of magic luck

meh the Sun will prolly heat the Earth up to the level where the all the plants die and us with it soon enough :/ (only 500 million years left and I figure we will fuck up at least once before then) (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/death_of_earth_000224.html)

either that or we will just stop caring like those colonists in that movie that I will not mention for fear of being viewed as a fanboy5 billion is 5000 million years.

Yes, but the sun starts slowly expanding soon; assuming nothing changes it'll be too hot for life on earth in ~500 million years, even though it won't go supernova for another five billion years or so.

5 billion is 5000 million years.

Kasting said, a cataclysmic finale may come even sooner. As Earth becomes a global desert, carbon dioxide levels are expected to drop. At a certain level, which he and his colleagues say might be achieved in half a billion years, there would not be enough carbon dioxide to support photosynthesis, and most plants would die.

unless that weird math number thing is going on I read that as 500 million :confused:

We have until this guy dies:
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x49/lll-Corrosion-lll/doomguy.png
After that, hell is coming to get us all. :eek2:

When the singularity takes place then it's rather soon game-over for humankind.

I figure we'll probably last forever. Once we have a sustainable colony on Mars (or any other planet), we're virtually invincible (barring a nearby supernova). That'll probably happen within a hundred years or so. In a thousand years, we'll have extrasolar colonies. The chances of something wiping us all out in that period of time is very small. And I don't buy that we'll wipe ourselves out. You think there wouldn't be a few survivors even after a nuclear war?

Why should we limit ourselves to planets? Why can't we make a large star craft to live indefinitely on?

Fortunately, 500 million years is more than enough time to either:
(1) colonzie other places
or
(2) prevent the sun from overheating

You're assuming that either of those two things is even possible.

I'm not wanting to rain on the parade too much, but given the fact that we've yet to build as much as a toolshed on the moon, and we can't even control the extremes of our own planet's weather - talking about how we'll inevitably colonize other worlds, or 'fix' our sun is somewhere between soft sci-fi and pure optimism.

Why should we limit ourselves to planets? Why can't we make a large star craft to live indefinitely on?

Insufficient raw materials?

I don't think we can go interstellar in the next 100 years. But it is plausible that the singularity would arrive in that given time frame. And probably we'll need singularity to go interstellar. In other words someone will visit planets 50 light years from here, but I don't think it's humankind.

Insufficient raw materials?
Space Piracy FTW!

Let it be known that I voted "I am not wearing any pants" because I am actually not wearing any pants.

It all depends on when Stephen King brings back Randall Flagg!

Let it be known that I voted "I am not wearing any pants" because I am actually not wearing any pants.
I don't know if I should be worried that two days later, I'm not wearing any pants yet again.

I wonder how many Generalites post pantless on a regular basis - or even regard pantlessness as a prerequisite to post?!?

I don't think we can go interstellar in the next 100 years. But it is plausible that the singularity would arrive in that given time frame. And probably we'll need singularity to go interstellar. In other words someone will visit planets 50 light years from here, but I don't think it's humankind.


I don't think any black hole is on its way to devour us that quickly, as far as I'm aware. if you're talking about the technological singularity, then there are many to pick from. why would any of them necessarily going to result in our mass extinction?