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What will be the Death of Mankind ( and Womankind
Nuclear War Asteroid Elimination by our own advanced technology Alien Invasion Zombie Apocalypse or ? Jun 09 14 08:13 pm Link Moderator Note!
Please remember that the Soapbox Forum is closed when responding to this post. Jun 09 14 08:15 pm Link I hope a solar flare, I mean think about it, incinerated to the molecular level you won't even know what hit you until you find yourself walking in green fields with the sun on your face or uhmmmm you know lol Jun 09 14 08:17 pm Link Asteroid - 75% chance Geological disaster (super-volcano) - 20% chance Nuclear war - 5% chance Jun 09 14 08:19 pm Link Garry k wrote: technology. Jun 09 14 08:23 pm Link bees - 98.6% Jun 09 14 08:24 pm Link Blue Cube Imaging wrote: wow that was quick Jun 09 14 08:25 pm Link jesse paulk wrote: Bees or maybe the death of them ? Jun 09 14 08:26 pm Link Hubris Jun 09 14 08:29 pm Link Facebook & Political Correctness Jun 09 14 08:30 pm Link Garry k wrote: You had a bad weekend or something ? Jun 09 14 08:32 pm Link Bobby C wrote: My weekend was Fine but thanks for asking Jun 09 14 08:34 pm Link Environmental collapse. Jun 09 14 08:35 pm Link Tribbles Jun 09 14 08:45 pm Link Garry k wrote: Zombie Apocalypse Jun 09 14 08:58 pm Link Rap music and similar related garbage! Jun 09 14 11:28 pm Link idk...people's worlds end everyday. Jun 10 14 12:05 am Link Nuclear war. Don't think so. I'd like to hope we've pulled ourselves back from the brink and decided that the cost is way too high. If the globe continues its economic connectivity, with worrisome bumps like Russia/Ukraine, China/South China Sea, the chances get less and less. Asteroid/meteor. Nothing terribly threatening yet. As we get more technologically adapted, we increase our chances of mitigating that possibility. Environmental disaster by our making or the earth's (such as a supervolcano). While we could trigger a runaway greenhouse effect, or change ecology in ways we're not seeing that would be devastating, or finally see the pathogen that can't be stopped, we've still got enough people scattered all over the globe to survive it. Alien invasion. If it happened, and if the aliens weren't friendly, this could do it. We'd be powerless in the face of technology that can handle interstellar travel. However, it's hard to imagine engineering at that level that would actually need to wipe us out. Zombie apocalypse. Sorry, not into those fictional shows, so I'm not qualified to say. Evolution to another species, making sapiens as obsolete as neandertalis. Now we're talking. Jun 10 14 12:07 am Link arrogance, apathy, and Apple Jun 10 14 12:25 am Link Internet comments. Jun 10 14 12:52 am Link Garry k wrote: ...none of the above. Jun 10 14 04:37 am Link Cellphones/Smartphones & texting... Perhaps not the extinction of our species, but I do think it is leading to the Decline & Fall of Western Civilization. Species extinction? Same as before: Meteor or comet impact. Jun 10 14 04:42 am Link Complete extermination of the species would be pretty hard, we occupy all habitable and most uninhabitable parts of the globe (Phoenix!). However, a strong 1-2 punch from the planet could pretty easily throw us back into pre-industrial existence, and crush our civilization. Imagine a large asteroid impact in SE Asia or China, then months, or years later an eruption of the Yellowstone Super-volcano. There is geological evidence that suggests large impact events can trigger near-simultaneous antipode volcanic/seismic events. Jun 10 14 04:56 am Link People being scared to death by preachers of coming doom,leading to social paralysis. Jun 10 14 06:18 am Link Technology. Jun 10 14 06:23 am Link it all ends when i die i figure you have 20-25 years use them well Jun 10 14 06:29 am Link http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ … emise.html Look up "the great filter" Andrew Thomas Evans www.andrewthomasevans.com Jun 10 14 06:35 am Link baked beans Jun 10 14 06:42 am Link Staphylococcus Jun 10 14 07:18 am Link Our children. Jun 10 14 07:28 am Link Garry k wrote: ... Jun 10 14 07:35 am Link NOTHING. Man will survive forever. But...if I HAD answer...it'll be something cosmic. Raging storm on the sun that sets Earth on fire. Collision from a meteor or comet. Jun 10 14 07:43 am Link --- There is a high probability that insects will survive as the next dominate life form Jun 10 14 08:01 am Link Nuclear war. Not to get on soapbox, but it seems nuclear war is more likely now than any time since the 60's. Jun 10 14 08:48 am Link Locutus wrote: lol..wut? Jun 10 14 08:57 am Link Jun 10 14 08:58 am Link Robots Jun 10 14 09:00 am Link For the record, 98% of all documented species are already extinct. --- Permian–Triassic extinction event wiped out 75% of plant and animal species 65 million years ago, including all non-avian dinosaurs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous … tion_event Chicxulub asteroid impact in Yucatan is high on the list of suspects --- In the absence of dinosaurs, mammals later flourished to fill the void. Yay! --- More severe was the Permian–Triassic extinction event, 252 million years ago. This one wiped out 96% of all marine species, 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species, and mass extinction of insects. It was so devastating, it took another 10 million years for evolution to get back on it's feet again to start producing new life forms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2 … tion_event Scientists guess this might have also been from asteroid/meteor/volcanoes and also the release of methane from ocean floors, causing anoxia - meaning elimination of oxygen in the water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event --- Between these two events was the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event which thinned the herds of dinosaurs and other species about 200 million years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triassic%E … tion_event --- In the past 540 million years there have been 2 other major extinction events that have killed off more than 50% of the animal species on earth. 370 million years ago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Devonian_extinction 450 million years ago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician … tion_event No place to hide. What comes next? http://www.pbase.com/image/99811318 Jun 10 14 09:02 am Link oh and... smartphones Jun 10 14 09:06 am Link Mankind Jun 10 14 09:12 am Link |