earendil 1
The Halfelven
In your opinon, how will humanity end? Will it go on forever? Will a nuclear war destory it?
The End of the World
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Well according to modern astrophysics, the universe cannot support life forever (Actually there's a theoretical way out but that's a whole other discussion and it wouldn't be anything like our idea of humanity), so there are few options
Supernovea- highly unlikely, no nearby stars are big enough to cause a cataclismic one.
Nuclear-Biological-Nanotechnological war is a possibility if humanity doean't overcome some of it's self-destructive tendancies.
Asteroid, highly unlikely, won't be an issue in 50 years
A super-disease, theoretically possible but highly-unlikely to kill of all of humanity.
Volcanos, Not too likely, you'd need a MASSIVE amount to have this occur.
Global warming, No, humanity could survive through massive ecolgical changes, but it might not be pretty.
I'm more of an idealist and hope we can colonize space and stick around in this universe for a few trillion years
Supernovea- highly unlikely, no nearby stars are big enough to cause a cataclismic one.
Nuclear-Biological-Nanotechnological war is a possibility if humanity doean't overcome some of it's self-destructive tendancies.
Asteroid, highly unlikely, won't be an issue in 50 years
A super-disease, theoretically possible but highly-unlikely to kill of all of humanity.
Volcanos, Not too likely, you'd need a MASSIVE amount to have this occur.
Global warming, No, humanity could survive through massive ecolgical changes, but it might not be pretty.
I'm more of an idealist and hope we can colonize space and stick around in this universe for a few trillion years
Bose
Antipodean
Gee, wonder who's gunna win the space race...
Higher Game
National Socialist
None of those options are realistic. It's safe to say that we will all die out when God wants us to. A supernova wouldn't do it, and we aren't any part of space where a gamma ray burst is probable. An asteroid would be the only realistic way, and odds are against us dying out that way. So, I say that God will decide when our time is up.
Global warming isn't much of a threat, we can just copy Futurama and cancel it out with Nuclear Winter 
In all seriousness, getting independent colonies elsewhere in the solar system will make most of those threats dissapear. I don't expect to see them in my lifetime, what with the low priority space exploration seems to be, but soon enough it'll happen. There's money to be made from it, after all. Of course, the solar system could, in the long term, still wind up being our tomb, if we can't cheat the speed limit.
In all seriousness, getting independent colonies elsewhere in the solar system will make most of those threats dissapear. I don't expect to see them in my lifetime, what with the low priority space exploration seems to be, but soon enough it'll happen. There's money to be made from it, after all. Of course, the solar system could, in the long term, still wind up being our tomb, if we can't cheat the speed limit.
ozscott75
Groper of Sand
The great-great-great-great-grandson of Phar Lap.
Phar Canal.
Bose
Antipodean
Well, you topped them with the most unrealistic option of all... but that's just my opinion.
Ozscott... you have been drinking far too much Swan Lager/Emu Export!
ComradeDavo
Formerly God
The end of the world shall be caused by.......Avril Lavigne. We must kill her now before it's too late!:die:
CurtSibling
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Considering the USA only puts a pitiful sum every year towards anti-asteroid defences, I think a 1km ball of rock would certainly do for us.
Amazing how people can concentrate on profit and petty little wars, when it ll could be wiped away in one disasterous event.
It is a real danger.
Amazing how people can concentrate on profit and petty little wars, when it ll could be wiped away in one disasterous event.
It is a real danger.
CurtSibling
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Sign me up, sign me up!
Mojotronica
Expect Irony.
Radical climate change brought about by exploitation of the environment or nuclear war.
If we survive long enough to see the sun die, hopefully we can figure out a way to colonize another solar system and save the human race.
If we survive long enough to see the sun die, hopefully we can figure out a way to colonize another solar system and save the human race.
thestonesfan
A Client of Ron Kuby
Heck, humans are tougher than cockroaches. We'll never go away. When this sun burns out, we'll be all over the universe.
Fr8monkey
Deity
Then we had better hurry! The Sun is expected to last only another 5 BILLION years. By then we will be the aliens leaving crop circles on a planet that doesn't even exist yet.
Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
Everyone using their hairdryers at once.
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Originally posted by CurtSibling
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Hey, nobody messes with my girl !
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Mongo97
Chieftain
Where's the option for the giant radioactive hamsters?
thestonesfan
A Client of Ron Kuby
At the same time everyone in China jumped.
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That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and
snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world
serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed
it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, Ladder
start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire
in a fire, representing seven games, a government
for hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in
a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team
by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
Look at that low playing! Fine, then. Uh oh,
overflow, population, common food, but it'll do. Save
yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs,
listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and
the revered and 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.
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign
towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself
churn. Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood
letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no
fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament,
tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions,
offer me alternatives and I decline.
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.
The other night I dreamt of knives, continental
drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard
Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester
Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.
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...fine...
(It's time I had some time alone)
snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world
serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed
it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, Ladder
start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire
in a fire, representing seven games, a government
for hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in
a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team
by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
Look at that low playing! Fine, then. Uh oh,
overflow, population, common food, but it'll do. Save
yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs,
listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and
the revered and 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.
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign
towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself
churn. Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood
letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no
fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament,
tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions,
offer me alternatives and I decline.
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.
The other night I dreamt of knives, continental
drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard
Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester
Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.
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...fine...
(It's time I had some time alone)
thestonesfan
A Client of Ron Kuby
I'd bring about the End if only to destroy Michael Stipe.
