human extinction

[Jon]

what did you think of it/what's your opinion on it? do you think it's inevitable, or do you think there's something that could be done

[rtil]

i don't really have an opinion on human extinction.. if we were ever wiped out as a species the event that caused it would probably be out of our control

[Flash]

eventually. time is infinite.
i think we might just have it in ourselves to cause such an extinction, but i don't know if any external force could do it to the whole human race; what with our technology increasing exponentially and shit like that

[Jon]

they say all things come to an end, but i've just been thinking about the reasons (pollution, overpopulation, big-ass meteor) and if there's really anything we can possibly do

and to be honest, worrying about it has made me a little sick to the stomach

[cipher]

I think we deserve extinction as this point

If it does happen, like rtil said, it will most likely be unavoidable. Probably some apocalyptic event that we could not survive (i.e a meteor, etc) before we managed to colonize another planet, or maybe some crazy disease maybe. To be honest, human extinction due to other humans seems unlikely. Even if we tried to nuke ourselves to extinction, it would be pretty hard in the long run.

[Sef]

I think it's whatever happens, happens. Trying our best to "prevent" extinction won't mean we tried to prepare for whatever vanquished or demolished our presence on Earth.

So, something COULD be done about one cause of extinction, but that'll distract us from anther possible form of extinction, etc.

[rtil]

i woudlnt' worry about it jon really. it won't happen in your lifetime if it does happen. concern yourself with more positive things.

[redmongoose]

once we deplete all the resources available to us on this planet and maybe the next couple of planets we figure out how to terraform in this solar system, what's left of the species would get on a big rocket ship and drift endlessly in space until everyone just dies or until we get ourselves killed when we try to haphazardly invade the next planet we find that is currently sustaining life

[ZennyPLUS]

The destruction of one life is simply the rebirth of another.

[naturally]

i woudlnt' worry about it jon really. it won't happen in your lifetime if it does happen. concern yourself with more positive things.

i think we will get extinct pretty fast 'cause most people think this way. it's a reasonable way to think and everything, but it's also probably why we're all gonna screw ourselves over.

tbh i really don't care that much though, we're all gonna die in the end anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[rtil]

we're all gonna die in the end anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Total Distortion You Are Dead

[naturally]

hey man not yet

but i'll be sure to have that song played at my funeral

[Sef]

you may not have a funeral......

if we're ALL DEAD

[rtil]

i hope when i die i become an anime...........

[naturally]

i hope when rtil dies we all become an anime

not that i'm hoping for any of us to die or anything... baka...

[ZennyPLUS]

i hope when i die i become an anime...........

[Kött]

Someday the sun meight either explode or simply cease to shine and all species in this solar system will be fucked.
I honestly doubt that mankind will ever be able to collect the necessary resources to escape its fate... nor do I think that a journey to do so would be physically possible.
On the other hand... row, row fight the powah! We have made some significant progress in the past decades and a limit to pur potential barely seems to exist. We still have at least 20 billion years until the sun dies and according to its volume a super nova would be unlikely to occur. On the other hand, 20 billion years are probably enough for humanity for wipe out itself, considering what we have witnessed in the wars of the past century... There is also a high possibility that we fall victim to a sort of epidemic of that the earth might be hit by a huge asteroid... but I actually think humanity might have the means to avoid the latter one, even in its current state.

Finally, as it has already been said, theoretically time is infinite and, other than time and space, humanity did have its beginning, so it will also cease to exist one day. Everything that had its beginning will end eventually.

[rtil]

humanity has about 3 billion years+ until the sun starts causing us serious problems

[ZennyPLUS]

And if we haven't started deep space exploration then, we are really doomed.

[manny]

um we'll go 2 space then get some weird space disease, come back2earth, spread it to errbody except the hicks who have underground shelters in the mid west,,, they''ll evolve into mole people, the end