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Here is a topic I hope can spur some interesting debate. How do you think humanity will end? I've given a few theories here that I think might be the most popular or most probable and then a poll. Do you think you have any better suggestions or do you want to argue that one of my suggestions is more likely than any other? Please vote and reply 
Evolution
Five million years from now our descendants will have evolved to a state where they are as different from us that we are from the other primates. If one of us traveled there in a time machine we would not be able to breed with them and they would be classified as a different species. Humanity as we know it would be no more.
Genetic Engineering
When our understanding of genetics improves at first we start by removing the genes that cause genetic disease. As time goes by we start changing our genes more and more. Withing a few hundred or thousand years we will reach the same state as in the theory above.
Technological Singularity
Machines start getting smarter and smarter. Soon they pass humans in intelligence and continue evolving faster than us. Either they kill us off or in time humanity will just become an irrelevant concept next to our new technological descendants.
World War III
A nuclear war exterminates all life on earth.
Global Catastrophe
Either one or a combination of global warming, pollution, disease, famine or similar causes kill us all of some time in the future.
Cosmological Catastrophe
Either a meteor hits the earth or a black hole(LHC!) swallows us.
Aliens
The Vogons finally decide that its time to build that intergalactic expressway and the earth just happens to be in the way.
Rapture
God will finaly bring the last of us up to paradise (Or some other religious or mythical ending to the world).
Poll: How will humanity end?
(Vote): Evolution
(Vote): Genetic Engineering
(Vote): Technological Singularity
(Vote): World War III
(Vote): Global Catastrophe
(Vote): Cosmological Catastrophe
(Vote): Aliens
(Vote): Rapture
(Vote): Other
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My 1st option is that we'll endup fire the weapons of chemical dust :-/
My second is catastrophe.
My third is that someone from an obscure internet forum will become a scientist and play a game of pandemonium on his workputer...
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wheres the exterminated by alien specie since we are deemed too dangerous/useless.
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On August 13 2008 03:40 XCetron wrote:
wheres the exterminated by alien specie since we are deemed too dangerous/useless.
(Vote): Aliens
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I imagined something like Wall-E, except not so family friendly.
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i doubt people will evolve much beyond this point. you cant have biological evolution without natural selection and without competition no natural selection. we - as humans - do not face the competition needed to drive natural selection.
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Global Catastrophe
Either one or a combination of global warming, pollution, disease, famine or similar causes kill us all of some time in the future.
Are you people reading the thread before posting  ?
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WWIII, Russia will probably start it.
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Madagascar will live on!!!!!!!
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On August 13 2008 03:48 DrainX wrote:Show nested quote +Global Catastrophe
Either one or a combination of global warming, pollution, disease, famine or similar causes kill us all of some time in the future. Are you people reading the thread before posting ?
oh oh 
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ZERG!!!!
The very mention of the name used to... (I don't remember the rest)
I say it will either be genetic/triggered evolution into tracendent beings or we get pwned by aliens.
WWIII won't happen.
1. I beleive, we learned our lesson after WWI and WWII
2. Wars are too expensive to wage today. The average cost to proprely equip a soldier has jumped to ridiculous proportions. Mobility is also a problem. China has a monstrous army, but they can't fuck with even CANADA because it's too far.
3. The world is becomming smaller. Europe is ALMOST a country. Same currency, no more border guards. People want to ally with each other, except for Russia and China.
If WWIII DOES happen, imo it will look alot like BF2142 (story wise, not the Mechs and Titans)
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I'll go with the cosmological catastrophe, just because that's how the dinosaurs bit it. Why not us?
Seems like a pretty decent way to go .
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On August 13 2008 03:54 Wasabi wrote:Show nested quote +On August 13 2008 03:47 dancefayedance!~ wrote:
i doubt people will evolve much beyond this point. you cant have biological evolution without natural selection and without competition no natural selection. we - as humans - do not face the competition needed to drive natural selection. Technology is doing all the evolution for us.
well if you mean genetic evolution then yes i agree. technology isnt actually helping us evolve but through it we can live longer and perform better, fight diseases and possibly cure genetic defects. technology for the most part is accessible or is at least becoming accessible to many people, and we're becoming dependent on it. the only places where any form of biological evolution takes place are very primitive societies like tribes in new guinea
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it wouldn'ttake 5 million years for us to evolve into something different (imo)
evolution in humans is happening faster now than ever
hopefully we stop having so many babies tho
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On August 13 2008 04:00 jwd241224 wrote:I'll go with the cosmological catastrophe, just because that's how the dinosaurs bit it. Why not us? Seems like a pretty decent way to go .
Yeah, that would be okay, imo. You'd just be going about your daily business and all of a sudden KABOOM. :p
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On August 13 2008 04:01 dancefayedance!~ wrote:
i doubt people will evolve much beyond this point. you cant have biological evolution without natural selection and without competition no natural selection. we - as humans - do not face the competition needed to drive natural selection.
I think you are looking at evolution, even biological evolution, the wrong way
competition comes in more forms than fight or flight - kill or be killed
we are competing with each other now - we are filling the niches
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On August 13 2008 04:03 travis wrote:
it wouldn'ttake 5 million years for us to evolve into something different (imo)
evolution in humans is happening faster now than ever
hopefully we stop having so many babies tho
i major in evolutionary biology and i can tell you that that isnt happening. im curious as to why you would think it would be happening?
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