End of the World

Either with a bang or a whimper. Take your pick.

Fiery nuclear holocaust, or rampaging pandemic.

Probably the pandemic.

Then again, the Yellowstone Caldera is way overdue for a massive eruption/explosion...

Hmm.

Giant meteor. At least a few of us would survive just about anything else.

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 . . .

Yeah, no bout adoubt it . . . so ?

These big blockbuster films always make me laugh.

Oh no there is a meteor heading for earth!!Quick lets all pull together, destroy this thing and save everybody on the planet!!
Yeah, we can carry on killing each other then.

Actually, I doubt the human race will end. Evolve, but not end. However, I give my summer optimism three more weeks; that's when I go back to work educating the future of our country (may God have mercy on our souls).

Mass Suicide, We are all gonna eat food contaminated with Mad Cow Disease which will then cause us all to go mad. Then the cows will become our leaders and they will make us drink the special juice @ midnight..... we will all fall dead and the cows will take over the earth!!

losing the faith
in every way we can
inviting the wraith
to the parties we plan

war of the worlds
no martian need apply
feed swine with pearls
why did we have to die

I try not to spend too much time dwelling on what might or might not happen within my lifetime. Odds are that if it does happen within my lifetime it will be something so far out of my reigns of control that it would be sheer madness to allow it to eat me up (unless of course it's acid rain). Life is too short to get caught up in doomsday predictions.

Sturgis has a good point: short of a cataclysmic event of unprecedented scope, the human race will not end in our lifetimes. Even a pandemic that began carrying everyone off would likely not completely depopulate the planet in our lifetimes. I have no doubt, however, that one day the human race will disappear. The notion of humanity being eternal simply flies in the face of logic.

Set, I don't think SuperScott said anything about "in our lifetime." I certainly don't expect a mankind-obliterating cataclysm to occur within the few years I've still got left. But everything that has a begining must also have an end, or so I'm told. This speck of dust in the cosmos had a start somewhere sometime; it will have an end somewhere sometime. Probably take another couple of billion years but end it must, sooner or later. Also, I believe we're talking end of world here, not end of mankind. It's all very well to say that the human race won't end, just evolve. But by that logic we can say that dinosaurs still walk the earth; we just call 'em birds now because that's what they've evolved into. If mankind evolves past a certain point in order to survive, it will no longer be 'mankind' but some new entity entirely.

Damn, I think I'll write a Star Treck script based on that!

Nudist beware your real end is in sight.

It's interesting to think of how the human species will evolve over time. There will probably be a lot of artificial selection rather than naural selection.

If we learn how to get off this earth and live elsewhere we'll probably be able to survive a lot longer.

I doubt that much physical evolution would take place on this planet. Perhaps if humans colonized other planets, environmental effects would lead to significant physical adaptation, but on this planet, such circumstances are not likely to arise. We've removed our memories from our bodies and deposited them in libraries. We removed our pattern recognition and deductive and inductive reasoning powers from our bodies and deposited them in laboratories and research institutions. Evolution for humanity now would take the form of the development of knowledge outside the physical form. I could be wrong, but i doubt it.

I agree. With health care and everything being able to cure genetic defects and problems, there really isn't much natural selection going on.

Re: End of the World
The human race will meet vapour, then it will become extinct from changing its own genes and a different breed emerge.

Epidemic. Or the sun will eat the planets.

In the beginning maybe we will dissolve instead of evolve.