What are your theories on how humans will be wiped out?

This topic is a very interesting one. To be quite honest I really don't think ANYTHING manmade could make our species extinct. Let's think about this for a moment:

1) Nuclear War

Ok fair enough, this would probably wipe out most of us; but the beauty of natural selection is that there will be some people out there more resistant to radiation than others... or maybe some of us will be in a fallout shelter, or perhaps an area that isn't heavily bombed (i.e. austrailia ;) ).

2) Disease

I seriously doubt this would wipe us ALL out. Even if they managed to genetically engineer the ultimate virus which no immune system could resist, they'd still have to distribute it to the entire population. SOMEONE would survive it (even if they were astranauts on a satalite in space :p)


I think the only way the human race could truly be made extinct, is if there was some kind of cataclysmic event; the likes of which we've never come up against (e.g. the Sun exploding, Gigantic meteorite etc..)

Otherwise, i'd say as a species; we're in quite a comfortable position :)


Of course, we'd have to avoid the Crab People or old people leaving their irons on.
 
Depends on how long it takes us to start colonizing other planets. Once we get off this rock and spread out a bit we are much less vulnerable as a species to get wiped out.
 
Teki187 said:
Dont take this any other way then its intended, but isnt the "black gene" a dominant gene, meaning if a black and white person had sex, you have a higher chance a black child?

Meaning in the end, we'll all be black skinned?
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But if that half-cast child and his descendants go on to mate only with Caucasian people, then the black gene will be diluted.

It's not stronger or weaker lol, the genes don't don a pair of boxing gloves and fight for the right to produce a black or a white kid.

LMFAO I can't believe that :D.
 
Before the earth ends, some of us (me included) will have been posted to Moonbase Alpha on our moon. However, a freak nuclear explosion on the dark side of the moon will blast it out of earth's orbit and send us hurtling into deep space on an unknown trajectory where we will have many adventures and encounter all sorts of badly dressed alien lifeforms.

My name is Commander John Koenig.
 
Was watching some show the other day and in something like 4 billion years the milky way and the andromeda galazy will collide and merge to form a new galaxy. They think that earth could either get sucked in and destroyed, or if we're on the edge of the collission we could survive and get whipped into deep space. :eek:
 
A nearby star will go supernova and the radiation will kill all life on earth (and indeed any life that may exist on the other planets in our solar system or other nearby solar systems)
 
The probability of humans wiping ourselves out (by whatever method) is probably quite high. Given long enough it becomes almost a certainty.
 
Haiku said:
The probability of humans wiping ourselves out (by whatever method) is probably quite high. Given long enough it becomes almost a certainty.
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Yes but the probability of us having 'colonies' on other moons/planets within the next 100-200 years is almost inevitable which turns the probability of us wiping ourselves out to a very small figure indeed. Of course the missing variable in the equation here is whether those colonies are self sustainable ;)
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
It is when nobody can send up more supplies.

Personally my vote will go toward either war or plague.
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But it wont affect remote tribes living in the middle of nowhere either.

A desiease is very unlikely to get every human, a single meteor than doesn't destroy every underground bunker is also unlikely to completely get rid of us, nor is a super volcano.

To completely get rid of use you have to really kill off all life on earth and make it so the crust is completely ruined to destroy bunkers and generators etc.

That or the LHC will make a stranglet that will turn the whole earth to strange matter and slowly destroy the universe, or will kill us all in a black hole.

We're a right virulent bunch us humans :D
 
NathanE said:
Yes but the probability of us having 'colonies' on other moons/planets within the next 100-200 years is almost inevitable which turns the probability of us wiping ourselves out to a very small figure indeed. Of course the missing variable in the equation here is whether those colonies are self sustainable ;)
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Well that's true but not much comfort for those of us living in the present or near future. We've already come fairly close to annihilating ourselves, such as in 1963.
 
Its always the machines I tell you - those damn shifty, flashy LEDS

That or we will be <fast food place>ed to death

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Haiku said:
Well that's true but not much comfort for those of us living in the present or near future. We've already come fairly close to annihilating ourselves, such as in 1963.
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I assume you mean 62 and the Cuban missile crisis, as 63 was full of nuclear ban/disarmament treaties etc.


but no we didn't certain groups faced large scale reductions in numbers but even so neither the Americans nor the Russians faced complete extinction, and Africa and many other places including south America would have remained relativity unscathed, and many of the more developed nations that made it would have been capable of preventing complete loss of population from fallout etc.

Ironically it would be mos likely dictator ships that would survive best due to the increased control over the populations.
 
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