That's the question, will the human race become extinct one day and if so, - how do you think it will happen?
Will The Human Race Become Extinct One Day?
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I don't think the Earth is that lucky. However I think we will get another plague type of event that will cull the population.
100% for sure.
It could be tomorrow, or thousands (or even millions) of years from now. Although, millions of years from now, if living organisms still exist on the planet, it is highly unlikely that any will resemble humans as they are today.
It could be tomorrow, or thousands (or even millions) of years from now. Although, millions of years from now, if living organisms still exist on the planet, it is highly unlikely that any will resemble humans as they are today.
Yes. The only question is how. We will either die out like trilobites did, or evolved into a new spacies like some feathered dinosaurs, the ancestors of modern birds, went through.
That's unclear, and depends what you mean by "extinct".
First, we're in a race to get off this planet before something destroys it. Something WILL destroy it. Our continued survival as a species ultimately depends on having alternative places to live. Big challenge, but hopefully we have a million years to solve it.
"Extinct" would ordinarily be interpreted to mean that we and all our descendants are annihilated. Even if "we" survive, evolution will eventually change us into a different species so that even though there's no catastrophe, and perhaps even though our civilization goes on, uninterrupted, down on through the ages, the beings that exist a million years hence would not be able to interbreed with today's human population, and so at some level you could say that this era of humans had become "extinct", but I don't really think that is what the OP is asking about.
So leaving aside quibbles about what "extinct" means, I think it's unclear--we're in a race to get off the planet before it's wiped out. It's not clear we will succeed, nor is it clear we will fail.
How is that unclear? In an infinite timeline, everything can and will happen at some point. That includes the extinction of the human race and organisms down the evolutionary tree from humans. Even if you approach it from a philosophical point of view and theorize that in some point in the future the universe will cease to exist, and therefore time will also cease to exist (or would it?)...we'd still be extinct due to the lack of actual space.
yes... Saw on discovery channel that an asteroid will strike earth in 1.5 billion years. Although I'm certain life on earth will be wiped out waaaaay faster than that. All it takes is a psycho dictator to release their nuclear bombs and life on earth will slowly die off. We're all connected whether we like it or not. Just look at the Tsunami in Japan whose radio active debris is coming to our coastlines and contaminating our fishing industry
Unless we have made the advances that we have moved on, or something happened in the meantime, certainly when the sun becomes a Red Giant in however many billion years.
There are theoretical ways to survive the heat death of the universe, so, it's unclear.
(The theoretical way to survive the heat death of the universe is to have an information processing engine that slows down its processing speed progressively, slowing it down faster than entropy increases, theoretically meaning it can go on processing at speeds that asymptotically approach, but never reach zero, into infinity, with longer and longer time periods between operations as the heat death unfolds. You could sanely argue that such a thing could not be human, but it could be an evolved/constructed continuation of our civilization.)
The hard thing about predicting the future is that it hasn't happened yet.
I put it at 60% chance of extinction from global nuclear war within 200 years. Other than that, for certain there will be an asteroid come by with our name on it, it's just a matter of time. The earth has had more than one great extinction in its history.
Yes it will. Thats why we should get together for a beer this Thursday or Friday. I am in Toronto for a little while & would like to have some fun before the pending zombie apocalypse. Who's up for it???
Yes we will be extinct seeing as we haven't found a cure to disease, solved the problem of pollution and disappearing ecosystems, found a way to feed everyone, running out of resources and space oh and that silly thing war. And these are just man mainly made problems nevermind the possibility of natural disasters.
