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

[Dorkamongus]

I don't know about the whole human race, but I know for sure America's screwed when the Yellowstone super volcano goes off.

And if it happens when I'm alive, then I'm dead for sure, since I'm way too close for comfort, even I'm over 300 miles away... I'll still get buried in the ashes.

Sobering thought.....

 

[Sarahcidal]

Aliens attack Independence Day style.. Hopefully Will Smith will be ready.

 

[Lord Kloo]

War - Most likely

Global Warming - In the UK anyway we're gonna freeze in the next 50 years when the gulf stream stops..

Disease - We're overdue but it would have to be a disease immune to antibiotics..

Resource collapse - Oil's sell-by date is fast approaching

Asteroid, solar flare, super volcano and anything else which can drastically change the climate or has explosive power..

Nazi re-invasion in 2018.. wait... what..

Science goes wrong and does something stupid to the gene pool and DNA..

Those little micro-organisms that NASA found the other day that turn phosphorous into arsenic..


Generally my bet is with any of the above for short term, for a inter-world human empire I'd say it will be our own in-fighting or vastly superior alien races..

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

Hopefully, We'll be able to expand out into the farthest reaches of space instead of killing ourselves on Earth and ending it here. So in that case i would have to say Heat Death [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_Death].....

Also, i cannot Believe i just wrote something THAT optimistic. The cynic in me....can't LOOK at me in shame right now.

 

[temporalcrux]

I predict humanity will die of old age.

 

[Lord Kloo]

I don't know about the whole human race, but I know for sure America's screwed when the Yellowstone super volcano goes off.

And if it happens when I'm alive, then I'm dead for sure, since I'm way too close for comfort, even I'm over 300 miles away... I'll still get buried in the ashes.

Sobering thought.....

You might not get covered in ashes but you could and likely will die from the resulting temperature drop or starvation causing by falling temperatures..

Have fun preparing for the apocalypse, you've got a maximum of 100,000 years to get ready..

 

[nuba km]

after we run out of fossil fuels in about 60 years there will be a lack of energy so only the rich can have it our modern way of live slowly come to an end and we die of disease due worse natural defences and stronger bacteria and viruses.

 

[The Heik]

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.

No one is crazy enough to use nukes, and more so we've got so many countermeasures against them that anyone who did use a nuke would never have it reach it's target.

Disease is also unlikely. Humans are nothing if not indomitable, and we'd either have a few people avoid it, adapt to it or find a cure.

As for the sun dying, we've got a billion years before the sun expands to a size that would render Earth uninhabitable. At that point we've either moved to another system, or we would not longer be classifiable as homo sapiens sapiens (not a typo).

I think that asteroid collision is the most likely. Earth has already been majorly hit once, and there are a lot of things that are traveling around space. Many of those things aren't much of a threat (we get get hit by minor stuff all the time and it's got no effect) but there are a few that would be near impossible to destroy or deflect, and if one of those is in line for a strike, then we're screwed.....

 

[The Stonker]

We will either get cybernetic immortality, meaning that we will not end.
Or we go up in a supernova.

 

[craddoke]

Since I sometimes pretend to be an optimist, I'll say we evolve into something new...

however, because I'm really a pessimist at heart, that something new will be the morlock.

 

[Dorkamongus]

I don't know about the whole human race, but I know for sure America's screwed when the Yellowstone super volcano goes off.

And if it happens when I'm alive, then I'm dead for sure, since I'm way too close for comfort, even I'm over 300 miles away... I'll still get buried in the ashes.

Sobering thought.....

You might not get covered in ashes but you could and likely will die from the resulting temperature drop or starvation causing by falling temperatures..

Have fun preparing for the apocalypse, you've got a maximum of 100,000 years to get ready..

I did a little research about this, and where I live is almost constantly downwind from Yellowstone, which means the majority of ash blasted up from the volcano will be headed in my direction.

But yeah, if it isn't the ash, the sub-zero temperature, blocked sun, and starvation will get me.

 

[kickyourass]

At the rate we're going my best guess is if something doesn't happen to stop it, this population thing will run out of control and most of the world will end up starving to death

 

[NerdElf]

The day Notch dies while choking in his big ocean of money will be the last day we will live happilly on Earth.

 

[P3LICANT]

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[blackflare]

id say every country in the world will build bigger and bigger weapons of mass destruction probably america end up on top. Then something will happen like a wide scale cherynoble and we will all die from some unpleasentness.


Or

I will be the cause of it with my superior knowledge of laziness which will spread across the universe and wipe us clear off the map. Every last partical of humanity gone. When people are just to lazy to feed themselves.



or we will just fall because of politicans incompentance

 

[CombiBlood]

The race will end cause the hero will fail that's why.

 

[The Funslinger]

The chav population will flow across the world and drum out everything else. At this point, "humanity" will no longer exist.

 

[Mass Effect]

I think in the effort to maintain each countries resources (after exhausted every other option) will nuke each other for resources, thus killing most of the population and similar to fallout we lose all records of before this war, so we are completely oblivious when the sun, the asteroid Stephen Hawkins spoke of or the Andromeda Galaxy crashing into ours.

That or we augment and enhance ourselves untill we are almost 100% android - which gives us an almost unlimited brain capacity to find a way to survive, and "Tom Roberts" if we are sentient, thinking after this process then aren't we still alive?

Or option 3) Like in the Mass Effect universe history - after discovering space travel we encounter aliens (Turians in Mass Effect at the Shanxi relay) which start a war with us (and instead of an alien council intervening we are wiped out).

 

[blackflare]

The chav population will flow across the world and drum out everything else. At this point, "humanity" will no longer exist.

A dark future awaits us. Maybe if we wait long enough they will wipe themselves out with inbreeding or take each other out.