If we do not manage to populate other planets, the sun will do it's thing and kill us all when it goes out. (More of a cooking than being blown up, but it's the SUN.)
How will the Human race end? (No zombies allowed)
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Disease is eventually going to make a big comeback. Sure, the last epidemics were the Black Plague and those outbreaks of Cholera, but more and more bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics which will end up with some strain of crazy-super-deathflu decimating the planet. The remaining ten percent of the population will probably end up being eaten by bears or wolves or very nervous fish.
Total ecological collapse, caused in part by global warming's destabilizing effect on naturally occuring climate cycles that current lifeforms are adapted to, as well as the massive pollution of water sources and the exhaustion/desertification of soil around the world effectively making agriculture impossible. It is happening as we type.
Greed will lead to us fully expoliting what we can out of the Earth until there is nothing left. While this happens, we will continue to despoil the most basic of things necessary to our survival - air, water, what's left of the rusted and ever failing chain of nature. When we finally go to war over the very basic of necessities to survive, we will reduce our numbers to a low enough point where continuation of our species will be highly unlikely. The shape that the planet will be in after that will ensure a harsh, painful death for those unlucky enough to survive, as the few remaining humans will fall to disease, predators and the wrath of Mother Nature as the Earth slowly heals itself to the point where it can again sustain and nurture life. It should be noted, however, that the human race is a stubborn lot and may, yet, survive this scenario. If so, humankind will begin to re-establish themselves as the dominant species once again once their basic struggle for survival is conquered.
And then they'll start this whole mess all over again because the tragic flaw of human intelligence is that IT DOES NOT LEARN FROM MOST OF ITS MISTAKES.
And then they'll start this whole mess all over again because the tragic flaw of human intelligence is that IT DOES NOT LEARN FROM MOST OF ITS MISTAKES.
We will, in an effort to create free labour (sort of), take all people who would normally serve no function in society, and use robotic technology to engineer them into the perfect hard laborers. (By this, I mean people who would be born in vegetative states, etc.) Eventually, these enhanced workers will become truly sentient, and being stronger than us, rebel and kill us all and take our place.
I think we'll eventually get so big that we destroy every last thing that exists from inter-dimensional war.
Probably greed, resulting in a war over a few remaining resources which a first world country needs to set off into space and colonize a planet, thus wasting more resources in the war, and thus mankind not being able to colonize another planet and us destroying our selfs.
Stupidity. If there's one thing life has taught me, it's to never underestimate the stupidity of mankind. I'm not sure on the details, but I'm nearly 100% positive that will be the main cause.
Also, thank you OP for not letting this turn into another zombie apocalypse thread. That fad is really getting old.
Also, thank you OP for not letting this turn into another zombie apocalypse thread. That fad is really getting old.
Either the Sun Imploding, or Mankind being Mankind and nuking ourselves over something as trivial as who saw Mountain X first. But even then I'm leaning towards the sun imploding being the final curtain for Mankind and every other species for that matter because even in Nuclear war man will live on though really little and probably very weak but we're a resourceful member of the genus Homo. It's why we're still around and our buddy Neanderthal is gone.