Poll: humanity and it's future

[Jfswift]

We'll be around another 100 years however anything beyond that I seriously doubt. I hate to sound pessimistic but there's just too many idiots in this world. Anytime a problem exists it gets ignored until it's so severe that no amount of action will really help anyway. For this reason I don't really want to have children. I think that's cruel.

 

[Paksenarrion]

Humans are just like cockroaches, except smell worse. Can't kill them all, can't find where they all hide, and they scatter when you flip the lights on.

Better kill yourself quick then, traitor. You can catch yourself, can't you? The rest of us will make the best of our world and become a space-faring race while the worms eat you.

Well thanks for blowing our cover. Normally, when we make such statements, the humans just laugh and scoff at it like cynical BS, but you just go and rip that can of worms wide open, THANK YOU. Now we'll never finalize that spaceship because you blew the cover.

By the Galactic Emperor-...RULES ONE AND TWO! DO NOT DISCUSS THE INVASION. DO NOT DISCUSS THE INVASION!

 

[Popadomus Ohio]

i really sincerely hope that humans stay alive long enough for me to become journalist and mock them. i need someone to hate. but yeah, i think we might be fighting to the death in a barren wasteland over a handful of raisins (those will be the currency by 2075, you'll see) by 2200. so we have a couple of hundred years.
unless the tories form a parliament. then i give anyone with an income that is less than £30,00 about 2 weeks to live.

 

[Cody211282]

Oh, for the love of God, people have been clamoring about the end of days for centuries. If it's not global warming or the population growth we're so fearing now, it was homosexuality and the lack of human hearts to sacrifice that we feared would be the cause of our supposedly forthcoming demise back in the olden days. Christ, are you kidding? We'll be good for millenia.

Oh thank god a voice of reason in the madness!


Humans are like cockroaches because we just refuse to die, It would take one hell of a lot to kill us all.

 

[Cody211282]

I don't think so. With the environmental damage we've caused, the Ozone Layer/Global Warming, chances are most of us will be under water within a few decades. All it will take is one huge Hurricane to flood everything once the sea level is high enough from the icebergs that are melting. :/

even if every single piece of Ice melted it would only raise the oceans about 3 feet, plus last report on the arctic shelf said they were getting thicker so no worries.

 

[Kagim]

We will last. Humans refuse to kick the bucket. As a species we will continue to grow. Eventually we will likely make it into space as well. People say we don't evolve anymore and for the most part yeah, its true. Though there are still people who refuse to stop growing and becoming smarter. Physicists, chemists, biologists. They continue to change and grow and challenge the rules that bind our world.

The human race as a species will survive. Like others said our culture in itself will change. Our race as a whole though will not die. After three or four global disasters that our planet have we managed to hump or way back into the dominate species i have a hard time believing now were suddenly going to be wiped out.

Wait what? Which 3 or 4 disasters are we talking about? I feel that I'm missing some crucial information.

also:

Hiroshima blasts had people living till the end of there lives

lol

The three our four global incidents involve the human race getting pounded by meteorite during the extent of our existence on earth. We have been almost forced to extinction several times due to what some people would call an Armageddon. Yet here we are.

And sorry, maybe i should have been more descriptive.

Victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki lived to long old ages. Many people who had been badly irradiated and horribly scarred still living into there 60's and 70's.

So, there are about 4 instances in which earth has been hit by meteorite storms?
If so, do you have sources?

I was laughing because everyone lives to the end of their life.

Ahh typos and not paying attention.. my worst foes. Change Involve to include for me. Thanks. Anyways... The four events I am talking about are....

The clovis comet http://www.thisiswesternmorningnews.co.uk/livingcornwall/Comet-strike-end-world-scenario/article-265193-detail/article.html
The Toba Event http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

Of course the other two thing i was talking about Were the Massive global Plagues that almost ended our race. The Spanish and black death. That can count as one if your being picky thus why i said 3 or 4.

 

[Cody211282]

I don't think so. With the environmental damage we've caused, the Ozone Layer/Global Warming, chances are most of us will be under water within a few decades. All it will take is one huge Hurricane to flood everything once the sea level is high enough from the icebergs that are melting. :/

even if every single piece of Ice melted it would only raise the oceans about 3 feet, plus last report on the arctic shelf said they were getting thicker so no worries.

Really? Where can I find this report, I'd like to read it. :]

Here is what I found, I took out some quotes if you don't want to read the entire thing.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/10/07/arctic-ice-thickens-nyt-environment-writer-commits-global-warming-here

"According to the center, second-year ice this summer made up 32 percent of the total ice cover on the Arctic Ocean, compared with 21 percent in 2007 and 9 percent in 2008."

also a few other stories on it can be found here

http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/cold-science/2002-01-18-wais-thicker.htm

"New measurements show the ice in West Antarctica is thickening, reversing some earlier estimates that the sheet was melting."

and here

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2006/10/11/antarctic-ice-sheet-and-the-plot-thickens/

"there is little evidence to disprove their conclusion that the mass of Antarctica?s grounded ice sheet steadily grew from 1980 to 2004."

 

[Valiant The Gamer]

Oh noes, A ice age!
That could happen...

 

[arcticphoenix95]

lets face it humans don't exactly have the best track record in the universe but we may not be the worst in terms of intelligence, self preservation, technology, etc. today's topic you ask: the human race. what will we be discussing specifically? will we be able to survive the hundred years? (please explain why or why not)

Who else has a better record than us? We shall endure.

remember, we're not the only beings in the universe.....

 

[Blindswordmaster]

lets face it humans don't exactly have the best track record in the universe but we may not be the worst in terms of intelligence, self preservation, technology, etc. today's topic you ask: the human race. what will we be discussing specifically? will we be able to survive the hundred years? (please explain why or why not)

Who else has a better record than us? We shall endure.

remember, we're not the only beings in the universe.....

Until we are proven wrong, we are alone.

 

[arcticphoenix95]

lets face it humans don't exactly have the best track record in the universe but we may not be the worst in terms of intelligence, self preservation, technology, etc. today's topic you ask: the human race. what will we be discussing specifically? will we be able to survive the hundred years? (please explain why or why not)

Who else has a better record than us? We shall endure.

remember, we're not the only beings in the universe.....

Until we are proven wrong, we are alone.

yeah, we are the ONLY beings in a VAST, GIGANTIC, COLOSSAL, universe. and i suppose that ALL OF THOSE ufo sightings are ALL just bullshit huh?

 

[Blindswordmaster]

lets face it humans don't exactly have the best track record in the universe but we may not be the worst in terms of intelligence, self preservation, technology, etc. today's topic you ask: the human race. what will we be discussing specifically? will we be able to survive the hundred years? (please explain why or why not)

Who else has a better record than us? We shall endure.

remember, we're not the only beings in the universe.....

Until we are proven wrong, we are alone.

yeah, we are the ONLY beings in a VAST, GIGANTIC, COLOSSAL, universe. and i suppose that ALL OF THOSE ufo sightings are ALL just bullshit huh?

UFO sightings are unidentified for a good reason. Logic dictates that we're not alone in the entire universe; however, seeing as how we have no evidence to support that we're not alone, we must assume we are. Therefore we are alone and waiting to be proven wrong.

 

[arcticphoenix95]

*looks at u.s military....again*, just give us the evidence we all know you have it.

 

[Blatherscythe]

As long as no crazy dictatorships arise, no deadly viruses, aliens, no enviroment changing phenomoneon and no nuclear holocaust, then I think we're in the clear.

 

[Captain Blackout]

This is actually an interesting question, especially with as many people that are believing that 2012 is the end of the world. In my personal opinion, it could go either way. Humanity may not have the best track record but we've managed to survive for thousands of years so far. It all really depends on how we handle ourselves now.

2012 seems like absolute bullshit. unless there were people who are working on that. *gives funny looks to u.s military, again* i'm on to you..

I have this theory, see. Eventually humanity will reach critical mass in terms of population, technology, and media. These three will combine and either humanity will ascend or die. I think the Mayans knew this, and just did some basic math based on what they'd seen in their own culture. Hell, if Moore could predict the advances in computing power, which is based on market forces and technological potential, niether of which he could precisely account for, why couldn't the Mayans, using a portion of the cultural power, figure this kind of thing out.

I did for for survival, though. We are adaptable as it gets as far as most animals go at our scale (discounting other groups, such as insects and bacteria). Civilization, on the other hand....

10, maybe 20 years? Oh wait, I forgot to carry the 2. Civilization has 2.5 years left, roughly.

 

[Javv_]

of course well live another hundred years, just let me die then let it all go to hell

 

[StBishop]

We will last. Humans refuse to kick the bucket. As a species we will continue to grow. Eventually we will likely make it into space as well. People say we don't evolve anymore and for the most part yeah, its true. Though there are still people who refuse to stop growing and becoming smarter. Physicists, chemists, biologists. They continue to change and grow and challenge the rules that bind our world.

The human race as a species will survive. Like others said our culture in itself will change. Our race as a whole though will not die. After three or four global disasters that our planet have we managed to hump or way back into the dominate species i have a hard time believing now were suddenly going to be wiped out.

Wait what? Which 3 or 4 disasters are we talking about? I feel that I'm missing some crucial information.

also:

Hiroshima blasts had people living till the end of there lives

lol

The three our four global incidents involve the human race getting pounded by meteorite during the extent of our existence on earth. We have been almost forced to extinction several times due to what some people would call an Armageddon. Yet here we are.

And sorry, maybe i should have been more descriptive.

Victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki lived to long old ages. Many people who had been badly irradiated and horribly scarred still living into there 60's and 70's.

So, there are about 4 instances in which earth has been hit by meteorite storms?
If so, do you have sources?

I was laughing because everyone lives to the end of their life.

Ahh typos and not paying attention.. my worst foes. Change Involve to include for me. Thanks. Anyways... The four events I am talking about are....

The clovis comet http://www.thisiswesternmorningnews.co.uk/livingcornwall/Comet-strike-end-world-scenario/article-265193-detail/article.html
The Toba Event http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

Of course the other two thing i was talking about Were the Massive global Plagues that almost ended our race. The Spanish and black death. That can count as one if your being picky thus why i said 3 or 4.

Well I'll be...

I feel some what enlightened. Thank you.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I definatly don't think humanity is in its last century. I don't think some huge catastrophe will happen anytime soon, but I can't predict everything. And even if something does happen I don't think humanity will die off entirely. We're just to stubborn as a race to give up so easily, I think at least some people will survive and carry on the species homo sapiens sapiens. Of course this does bring up the point that we need to get off this planet. No need to keep all our eggs in one basket and all.