How will the Human race end? (No zombies allowed)

[TheAceTheOne]

Non-serious response: Metal. GWAR will blow up the sun, Slayer will summon demons, Skeletonwitch will raise a skeleton army, and Amon Amarth will resurrect the Norse gods. And also the following.

On the business end of many, many death rays if I have any say on the matter.

And seeing how my election campaign is going, humanity might as well just agree to be our slaves now.

(You have my vote!)

Serious response: I think it'll just kind of burn out eventually.

 

[ZeLunarian]

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

(Cookie on offer)

Southland tales?

Ot: I'll say it'll either be by evolotion, or natural selection (succumbing to a plague of some sort)

 

[babinro]

Depleting resources such as fresh drinking water and oil will drastically change the worlds population as we know it.

The end of the human race though is hard to imagine. I'd assume some would survive most major world changes including the next inevitable ice age. As such, only something improbable would finish humanity entirely, such as a major meteor strike.

 

[SilverUchiha]

This is a serious question. What do you think will finally kill off the human race?

Asteroid collision? Disease? Nuclear weapons? Sun dying?

I frankly have no idea. It would be interesting to see how this species does die, I think everyone would agree that this planet is better of without us.

Or alternatively mabye we'll find away to migrate out of this solar system and poison the rest of the universe.

You say no zombies, but you include disease which leads to A LOT of different zombie-like (aka "Infected") ideas. I personally think it's going to be something like this because I personally want it to be this. I've logged in enough hours of L4D to have a general idea of what to do. Find 3 other people and use them as meatshields while I lead us to safety.

But since you don't allow this... I'll go with my second favorite option:

An evil organization gains enough power to threaten either one of the top 5 biggest countries or the whole world. (This organization could be a country, but I'd rather it be an evil organization so it isn't affiliated with anyone and makes them seem more mysterious). First they hack computer systems around the world and eventually gain control of the internet. Second, they start actually attacking people (bombs, germ-weapons, etc). Eventually they actually start making demands before deciding to just say "fuck it" and blow us all up anyway. Personally, I'm hoping for something like the Injustice Gang or the Legion of Doom because that would be pretty sweet.

 

[SwagLordYoloson]

Zombies, no doubt about it

 

[The Seldom Seen Kid]

The invention of digital sex.

 

[Torrasque]

This is a serious question. What do you think will finally kill off the human race?

Asteroid collision? Disease? Nuclear weapons? Sun dying?

I frankly have no idea. It would be interesting to see how this species does die, I think everyone would agree that this planet is better of without us.

Or alternatively mabye we'll find away to migrate out of this solar system and poison the rest of the universe.

Asteroid collision: Earth would explode/end in about 2 minutes, so it doesn't matter if that happened or not. We wouldn't know.
Disease: Identical to the Z word *cough*. We'd all slowly die off, but some of us would be immune. No matter how lethal the disease is, there would be a very small percentage of humanity that was immune.
Nuclear Weapons: Mankind does not have the capacity to explode itself to death. The radiation would suck, yes, but if you had a nuke for every person, there would still be survivors.
Sun dying: It would take 2 minute and 26 seconds for life on Earth to end when the sun stopped. If it just fizzled out (ignoring the laws of physics) all processes on Earth would stop; climate, wind, oceans, plants, animals, etc. If the Sun exploded (like it would if it "died") then it would take about 1 minute and 50 seconds for the explosion to reach Earth and annihilate Earth.

So rly, does it matter?
I don't think the Earth will end, and if/when it does, I don't care, because I won't be able to stop it.

 

[Ordinaryundone]

We won't die. Humanity will continue to expand, and grow. We will build mighty ships, like the days of yore, and set out into the abyss on our continuing mission to discover strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no man has gone before!

At least, I hope. Humanity has far too much potential to just give up and let ourselves be destroyed by whatever doom manifests itself. We will be, in the end, the greatest creation of this planet; its greatest resource and its greatest contribution to the tapestry of existence. I for one will be very, very disappointed in my decedents if they all get wiped out. Earth deserves better than to just be forgotten to history.

 

[dlsevern]

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I just wanted to clear this up, I was directing this at anyone on the Escapist, I just meant that I believe the world will end due to mankind's stupidity.

 

[TheDarklite]

I reckon it will go all Mass Effect-esque and we will get killed by giant space machines several kilometers long.

It seems to be the only logical conclusion >.>

 

[Flac00]

In a fiery ball of peanut butter

Creamy or crunchy?

Creamy, crunchy is for Mars.