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Humanity will end in a billion years
Topic Started: Jul 2 2013, 07:02:48 PM (1,728 Views)
Fear
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Our entire existence as "modern" Homo sapiens has only amounted to about 200,000 years. That's less than 0.1% of one billion years. The entirety of recorded human history is roughly 4,000 years. It's just stupid to even consider what the world may be like in one billion years when we haven't even been around for one percent of that number. The universe itself is only 13 billion years old. Honestly, I think it's pretty stupid to think that our species will last a billion years.

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Well fuck the earth, our technology will be so great we will either just be like the film Wall-E or of found a plant we can call Earth 2 and we could fuck that up for a few million years instead.
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A billion years is a fucking ridiculously long time, like Fear said, humans have only been around (in our form) for around 200 000 years (depends who you ask), humans will likely disappear either by extinction or branching evolution beyond recognition long before 1000 000 000 (that's a billion) years are up.
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Those are very nice predictions those scientists have made, but they forgot to account for anaerobic bacteria. Oops.
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I think we will be gone within the next 1000 years.

Natural fuels are predicted to run out in <100 years, with crude oil being the main worry. When Americans eventually can't afford to drive their big cars every day, there will be a breakdown in activity and nuclear war will be likely. The human population is already at a hugely unsustainable level, and eventually the bubble will burst and the population will be cut down drastically. After that, without civilization and the modern way of living, human beings will struggle to survive.
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Jul 5 2013, 11:24:37 PM
I think we will be gone within the next 1000 years.

Natural fuels are predicted to run out in <100 years, with crude oil being the main worry. When Americans eventually can't afford to drive their big cars every day, there will be a breakdown in activity and nuclear war will be likely. The human population is already at a hugely unsustainable level, and eventually the bubble will burst and the population will be cut down drastically. After that, without civilization and the modern way of living, human beings will struggle to survive.
You're forgetting that much, if not most of the world still lives primitively.
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I think that since the FOX unit was part of the CIA, that they'd have given Zero some specifications to how it would be acceptable to run things, which probably meant that bagging your turds and carrying them around with you was tossed out the window, it'd be stupid anyway since even if it was bagged, the stench would've leaked out eventually, and I don't know about you but I'm pretty sure I'd be able to smell it if some random guy was crawling through the bushes carrying a bag of his own shit, especially if he put that and urinated in the same bag...yeah...not very stealthy.
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Well sorry I'm an idiot. Damn. I'll stop spamming all your threads....
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agent 47
Jul 5 2013, 11:24:37 PM
I think we will be gone within the next 1000 years.

Natural fuels are predicted to run out in <100 years, with crude oil being the main worry. When Americans eventually can't afford to drive their big cars every day, there will be a breakdown in activity and nuclear war will be likely. The human population is already at a hugely unsustainable level, and eventually the bubble will burst and the population will be cut down drastically. After that, without civilization and the modern way of living, human beings will struggle to survive.
You're forgetting that much, if not most of the world still lives primitively.
First, give it 200 years tops for the civilized world to collapse. That's if everyone co-operates, but eventually there will be wars over the remaining supplies of water, fossil fuels, and energy sources.

After that, without international trade and agriculture, humans would be forced to live as tribes, hunting for themselves and living in small communities. Nuclear radiation will make many areas inhospitable, and the worsening effect of global warming will make weather more volatile everywhere. It will be more difficult for anything to stay alive.
Edited by Agent, Jul 6 2013, 12:43:26 AM.
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If the sun doesn't kill us with solar flares or eventually dying as a star and expanding to the point it engulfs all planets probably up to Jupiter and disrupting activity going on with the remaining plants, then some kind of asteroid will hit us.

If some idiot like Kim Jong Un doesn't decide to push the nuclear button, then some other idiot will. If we don't burn out all of our resources whilst killing of destroying millions of species of plants and animals, then the pollution we have already caused probably will.

My bet is on civilization collapsing before then.
I don't think we will last another millennium, put it that way :)
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Fear
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We should have never developed "civilization." It's not what humanity evolved for.
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Humanity certainly has the potential to end itself. But people also have to heart to do everything necessary to prevent it from happening.
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I think that since the FOX unit was part of the CIA, that they'd have given Zero some specifications to how it would be acceptable to run things, which probably meant that bagging your turds and carrying them around with you was tossed out the window, it'd be stupid anyway since even if it was bagged, the stench would've leaked out eventually, and I don't know about you but I'm pretty sure I'd be able to smell it if some random guy was crawling through the bushes carrying a bag of his own shit, especially if he put that and urinated in the same bag...yeah...not very stealthy.
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Lucent
Jul 6 2013, 12:18:06 AM
So this is what they pay scientists to do now? lol.
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All animals and plants will vanish from the Earth within the next billion years, a new study suggests.


*Doing my best Kip from Napoleon Dynamite impression*

"Napoleon, like anyone can even know that."
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Jul 6 2013, 01:07:35 AM
If the sun doesn't kill us with solar flares or eventually dying as a star and expanding to the point it engulfs all planets probably up to Jupiter and disrupting activity going on with the remaining plants, then some kind of asteroid will hit us.

If some idiot like Kim Jong Un doesn't decide to push the nuclear button, then some other idiot will. If we don't burn out all of our resources whilst killing of destroying millions of species of plants and animals, then the pollution we have already caused probably will.

My bet is on civilization collapsing before then.
I don't think we will last another millennium, put it that way :)
Woah cheer up :(


But no I agree with the people saying this. Perhaps even in our lifetime we'll begin to see the collapse, and severe degradation or complete annihilation of modern Western and Eastern society. It's a shame because handled properly, humanity could achieve great things and become essentially immortal as a species. We're at a very vulnerable point in our development, and as we evolve down the path civilisation has set us, the breach between biology and psychology grows wider.


Unfortunately we are just animals. Undeniably the most complex and interesting, but animals nonetheless and we are not exempt from nature's laws, despite our efforts to defy them. We aren't even really meant to live like this, as modern society exists. It's against nature and it's not only perverting the planet but also ourselves as a species to some degree. Humans become fucking lazy and ridiculous when their survival is guaranteed.


There's exceptions of course and humanity has achieved some phenomenal shit, but the trajectory of our species seems to be headed for doom, and pretty soon too.


All this said, I hope I'm fucking wrong and we go on for a lot longer and grow into an unrecognisable amazing thing.
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Population growth is the killer. If the whole world was a free-market system, free of socialism and charity, only the fittest would survive (like in the animal kingdom) and this would actually be best of humanity in the long run, even if it seems inhumane and unfair in the short run.
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I'm pretty cynical of humans in general, we ruin everything c:
That being said I really do hope we don't all die in a flaming fireball. The breach between biology and psychology was an interesting point Granin! If you're talking about genes and the such anyway, personally I see no real major disadvantages with stem cells and altering DNA and those kind of things. Did anyone hear recently about kids being born with 3 parents because they remove some massively ineffective mitochondrial DNA from the mother and use another woman's? I think it's fascinating but we are held back by our ethics.

Of course people are worried about crossing the line and I can understand that but it isn't as if scientists run about willynilly with needles :P these kind of things are regulated. Anyway that's probably an issue worthy in another topic.
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I don't get the entire ''survival is a guarantee = bad'' it's natural to want to be safe, that isn't really going against nature, isn't it?
We, as creatures, adapt. If you throw someone into a hostile environment, they eventually adapt to it like their old one, it isn't really that bad.

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