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

[Christopher Bryer]

lack of drinkable water will probably be the end of use as a race...a day will come when your water bill comes and it will be like 10,000$.. So then only the super rich and the VIP's will have water..Then animals will start to die and plants and so on and so on.....and then probably a war will start over water and then BOOM.. nukes will get involved then about 200 years later my great,great,great grand child will be selling your great,great,great childes raiders vest for 145 bottle caps at the local shop.

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

Several ways - Nuclear, social collapse, astroid or a severe climate-shift.

 

[TheLiham]

The Flood aren't zombies.

 

[Hoplon]

Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

 

[Barziboy]

One Big Fight Club...


...or maybe the Oryx and Crake method...

 

[crazyfoxdemon]

Starvation due to over population

 

[Baradiel]

Sarah Palin (or some other right-wing nutjob) gets elected as President of the US, thus giving her control over the worlds largest amount of nuclear weapons.

She already seems slightly unhinged. It'd take such a small thing to completely blow her off her hinges.

 

[TheTaco007]

Nuclear war or robot takeover.

I vote robot takeover, that way I can have my conscience transferred into a robot body.

 

[spectrenihlus]

An ultranova.

 

[spectrenihlus]

Sarah Palin (or some other right-wing nutjob) gets elected as President of the US, thus giving her control over the worlds largest amount of nuclear weapons.

She already seems slightly unhinged. It'd take such a small thing to completely blow her off her hinges.

She can never be elected.

 

[Scorch_Phoenix]

zombies....loads of them.

 

[jibjab963]

I say the world shall end by an attack from alien vampire bunnies. I mean, am I the only one that can see it coming? No, but in all seriousness I would have to go with Nuclear Armageddon.

 

[Pandaman1911]

You ever see "The End of The World"? Pretty much that. Somebody is going to get sick of somebody else's stupid face, and throw a big fancy bomb at them (or a lot of fancy bombs), and then they're going to throw a big fancy bomb at the first guy, and then the first guy's friends are going to throw their fancy bombs, and then everybody's just going to throw everything they have at everyone they don't like, and it will be like Fallout except nobody survives.

 

[AMMO Kid]

An infection that makes people eat each other and that is definitely not a zombie virus

 

[strobe]

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

Hopefully we'd have the intelligence to only attempt this on a realistic scale in a controlled environment. Creating a ATP inhibitor would be plain silly and devastating for all life everywhere. Let's hope our scientists behave themselves.

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

Don't know much about these guys, but presumably they would struggle to adapt to other environments.

Lord Kloo's sentence about bacteria that create arsenic is wrong. When I first read it I was all like "What the shit?! Why have I been learning Chemistry? Alchemy works, so how come no-one told me?" but then I remembered that it was bacteria that use Arsenic instead of Phosphorous. This would mean your, Meatman, ATP inhibitor wouldn't work on them.

And for all you "NUKEZ WILL KILLZ ALL" people: a friend reminded me recently that Bacteria are awesome. Just as an "ATP inhibitor" wouldn't kill them all neither would nukes. For the record I don't reckon nukes'll end us now.

As an answer to OP, I don't know but I think we're set for the next 100 years, probably. Maybe we'll get a grey soup death?

 

[BlackWidower]

I think everyone would agree that this planet is better of without us.

I don't agree.

 

[Souplex]

We'll all be crushed under repeat threads.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.87117-Poll-Its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it#1305275

 

[Adventurer2626]

We won't. We're tenacious bastards just like bacteria. After the 12th cycle of civilization's rise and fall we'll finally achieve space travel then the universe is screwed.

 

[BlackWidower]

I wish we could delete posts.