EPTHow is the world going to end? - Page 12
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pleskator
Czech Republic40 Posts
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RebirthOfLeGenD
USA5860 Posts
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Mailing
United States3087 Posts
Sure, 99.99% of all humans may be wiped out, but science and ingenuity can keep our species as a whole alive, be it underground or anywhere else. | ||
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KameZerg
Sweden1769 Posts
On May 22 2011 18:52 MyLastSerenade wrote: Zombie Invasion! What does that have to do with the end of the world? As for most of the polls aswell. | ||
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sTsCompleted
United States380 Posts
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gosublade
632 Posts
A) After colonization Mars, The Moon and possibly other planets/moons in our solar system, we fail to travel and colonizise planets outside of our solar system, we just die of old age(that is if immortality hasn't been introduced to humans.) B) Many scientists belive that time will end in 5 billion years and a new big bang will erupt at some point | ||
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
End of humanity and/or life in general on it is a different matter though. | ||
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Primal666
Slovenia418 Posts
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Valestrum
United States246 Posts
On May 23 2011 00:34 Mailing wrote: The human race is at a point where we cannot "end" without our planet being destroyed. Sure, 99.99% of all humans may be wiped out, but science and ingenuity can keep our species as a whole alive, be it underground or anywhere else. I agree with this, I believe we've come too far for humans to die out completely. The only way I see humanity ending is if something destroys the world. In every scenario I can think of it seems to always go back to "Well I suppose a small group of people would be in a very secure vault with food and water production machines. Within these vaults or bomb shelters I see people being safe from almost anything and able to slowly reproduce." | ||
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HAUER
Denmark208 Posts
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radscorpion9
Canada2252 Posts
On May 23 2011 00:17 scribe123456 wrote: no mention of global warming from anyone on this thread... I find that interesting. (unless I missed it) Yeah I was curious about that too. I think that's covered under environmental apocalypse in the original poll though, its just no one brought it up since then. Although its likely that global warming could have apocalyptic consequences, I don't think its to the extent that most people interpret "the end of the world" as meaning; that being the end of all human life. There's probably going to be some safe corner of the world, where you can still grow crops, or where genetically modified crops can be grown in a secure man-made structure. But the same would also be true for nuclear war. There would surely be bunkers where people could survive, not every corner of the world would be destroyed completely. I guess in both cases it depends how severe it is, and on certain factors - like whether people get to shelter in time or have prepared ahead of time. I think the best options would be an asteroid impact or a super virus. Another option could be that we invent a very powerful technology in the future that is capable of destroying the world if we're not careful enough - not necessarily a more powerful bomb, but something analogous to the creation of the atomic bomb. Maybe it rips the fabric of space time or something  | ||
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amatoer
Germany212 Posts
whereas the end of mankind can happen by nuclear apocalypse, making 100% of earth's surface unlivable or (again) another species comes across, is better in every aspect and has the will to enslave or kill the human race as such. oh, another possibility might be the green house effect, heating up earth to a point where people are not able to recover from. | ||
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Xiphos
Canada7507 Posts
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butchji
Germany1531 Posts
On May 23 2011 00:33 RebirthOfLeGenD wrote: Nuclear Apocalypse. It's why my goal is to just buy my own island and be left the fuck alone. I can watch the whole world go to shit from my own personal shore line. Ye, it's not like you have a problem as well when the whole world was getting bombed with nuclear bombs. Just chill at your island not getting irradiated at all. -_- | ||
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BlindSC2
United Kingdom435 Posts
Earth may end up like Mars and dry up for whatever reason, or an asteroid collision may occur or a supernova could happen (relatively) nearby etcetc within the next couple billion years, but by then I'm sure 'we' (as in our far far offspring) wouldn't be recognisable as humans today so I won't count that I don't see humans being killed off altogether by disease or Earth-based environmental disasters (global warming, super volcanoes or whatever), and so for the future of humans I think it depends on whether or not we can find and colonise Earth-like planets before we kill ourselves, through a) overpopulation and therefore destruction of sustainable resources, or b) man made disasters (nuclear war etc) | ||
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HeavOnEarth
United States7087 Posts
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Attica
United States277 Posts
If human beings don't have the technology to reach new solar systems by then we are going to become extinct. The nearest star is 4.2 light years away. One light second is 186,000 miles. You figure it out. | ||
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Hakker
United States1360 Posts
Barring that, I doubt humanity can last another 1000 years with the way we're so keen on blowing ourselves up. I wouldnt be surprised if a majority of the worlds population wasn't wiped out on the day WW3 breaks loose. | ||
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teekesselchen
Germany886 Posts
Pro Virus/Bacteria: Our idiotic use of antiotics everywhere. It's like a super speed up for the evolution of ultra resistent bacteria. It might come to the point where that will severely backfire at us and kill a lot of people, because it will compromise with our improvements in medicine. Perhaps up the the point that a lot of knowledge will be lost when really many people die. Perhaps we will make it to the scientific stage that we won't even need antibiotics anymore, but that is anything but safe to say! Environmental: Who knows, maybe everything will snowball up at a certain point. There was a really cool (and serious/adult) manga oneshot about this topic, "Hotel", where global warming reaches a point where enormous amounts of methane stored in the seas is released and the whole earth warms up to like 100°C, wiping out humanity. I found this scenario unlikely, but who knows. Link:Hotel (It's only 40 pages, definitly worth a read) Asteroid: Well... always possible. Still, I think since there currently is no asteroid closeby, we will have the technology to deflect incoming asteroids as soon as one comes. Just a very small impact is enough to change the direction a little and put us at safety. This means, unless there is a loss of knowledge (which I do not expect. Our knowledge is internationally available, just the downfall of one or two cultures won't destroy it all!) this is unlikely Nuclear: Hm, who knows. If there is a catastrophe like that in Japan, with the initial circumstances just being a little bit worse, it can become really ugly. But I don't see it wiping out humanity, not even a whole continent. Overall: I think it would take humanity a giant chain of bad events to get destroyed, but who knows what happens over the millenia or even millions of years. Well, probably it will be the sun ultimately... | ||
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Terrakin
United States1440 Posts
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