how long do you think humanity will last? i say give us ten years and we'll all be dead.

according to almost all religions, and some scientists, and future tellers, the world will end in december of 2012

thats the myan calender ending

I believe the world will end 7 years after the rapture occurs. But that's just my opinion. If I wasn't talking about it religiously, then I would give it a couple more thousand years.

at the rate wer'e going how could it last a couple thousand?

yeah cuz liek we humans , "not cavemen" have lived for onyl like 5000 years or sumthin...

id say were still gonna live for more than 10 years...

if what i hope is right, 2012 should actually be the year we all advance in evolution... otherwise an unknown force will take over or we'll just all just die from the earth happening... i dunno i wikipediad it and found out alot of theories on 2012 lol... rather good theories in my opinion...

what ever... i have a feeling we might live either until 2052-2678 i chose those years because they just seem to fit...

otherwise rounded wise i would say we will all die around 2050-2680 so im making a big estimate... im being cheap big deal...

i honestly believe we realy arent going to live into the year 3000... i honestly think it is near impossible... from all the threats and dangers not just on earth but in the universe... a set things could happen to the earth...

nuclear warfare, global warming, an asteroid big enough to wipe out the earth hits us, a heavenly body (such as a star) explodes and sends off a huge load of radiation that will literally fry the planet, something religiously might bring the world to an end (i.e. anti-christ all of that...) alien life come and will either invade and inslave us or kill us all (with the possiblility that aliens exist and ever do come to earth... and theres still a possibility they might not be hostile...) we advance in technology abit to much (say we create something that kills us... kinda like in battlestar galactica), the whole terminator movie becomes reality... (that would SUCK...)

i cant really think of anything else.. my point is... im pretty sure we have from anywhere around 43-673 years before we die... there is just no way we will live to the year 3000... i just cannot see anyway it would be possible...

humanity is probably going to end within 2012 and 2030. from pollution and stuff and deforestation of rainforests, give it til 2011 and there wont be much left. Meaning more carbon dioxide into the ozone, so it burns up. In several years, the ozone will burn up completely and be more vulnerable to the suns radiation, and meteors. Also, less oxygen. And because of the rapidly growing amount of people, even less oxygen. 6/6/06 was the devils day, whether in real life or runescape. real life, near my area some number of car crashes happened. And in runescape, of course the fally massacre.

supposedly this year through 7/7/07 its supposed to be really good. after then, the rest of the year is supposed to be bad. idk

Well we do get the options of death!

1. we start a war with japan, north korea, and russia
2. Bush will accusse the United States of having Weapons of mass destruction
And if somehow we live through those, we have till the sun burns out.

This is quite a stupid topic, really, no-one here knows when the world will end, so why ask?

But anyways, i believe humanity will die, but not for a long while yet, we aren't tremendously evolved i believe.


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cocroaches are more evolved than us.

But I'd give humanity thousands of years yet. Can't tell you whether we'll be in a utopia or a dystopia by that point though.

Ghhahahhaahhhaa Filtered.

You can't really tell when the human race with become extinct, chances are it'll happen when we either make the earth uninhabitable or we end up fighting over the last remaining oil.

There are alternatives to oil.

Iceland for example, are nearing their target of having every car in the country converted to running on bio-fuel. There's also nuclear power for energy and bio-plastics and sythentics that have recently been developed.

Mexic0 peeples are so liek smart i beweive in dem 4 gud

Meh, anyways, I don't believe in that mayan crap anyhow.

I think the Human race could be sustainable indefinitely.

Our only real problem is other humans. With the looming advent of usable space travel/ the gradual increase in average intelligence who knows where we'll be in any number of years. We may start colonising other worlds soon.

If we can avoid meteors/the sun dying out/ resources depleting that is...



2012 isn't a prediction for the end of the world.

2012 is the prediction of something better actually... supposidly theres a chance thats when the earths magnetic field reverses... or other thoeries have stated that it may be the year in which we all evolve in evolution (something like that not exactly though)

if the human race doesnt have something bad happen to it on 2012 then we'll most likely have had something insane have happened to us and we might just actually end up living alot longer than ever expected!

or the worst might come out of the best... eitherway...

2012 will be a major point in earths history considering its something good... or it might all just be nothing that were getting all worked up about... and it will still be remembered as the mayans screwed up...

but anyways... theres alot of things that factor how long the human race will live... we might just live even longer than the earth if we do actually travel and live on other planets... theres a ton of factors that could disprove alot of what were geussing, technology is probably the most beneficial to us... but im not going to start on that... you all know that technology has gotin us pretty far...

We have lived for thousands of years, and I give it thousands of years to come. Whenever the sun dies out will probably be the end unless they create some way to get the suns light and to sheild its self from the explosion.

Many would say that humanity is dead... its just the human race that endures...

No offense, but you're just full of it.

Evolution is a process that happens over millions of years. Nothing close to it could possibly happen in a year.

now they do have computers that can think for themselves and there is an astroid they think will hit the earth if its path gets alterd by about an inch



did i say when the world ends?



actualy if the sun died out it would turn into a black hole and destroy evrything in the solar system.

If humanity continues our wasteful trends and behaviors, examples being deforestation, polltion, etc, humanity is bound to be doomed. Also there is the huge problem with the growth of population versus the growth of food/resources production. Humans will keep on finding out new ways to improve our everyday lives, make our lives easier, etc, but there will always be those who do not care for the planet we live on. Unless we think of someway in which we could prevent the negative aspects of human lives, humanity will not be here to see the end of time.

*cough* did i say it was proven to happen? *cough*

im pretty sure i mentioned that those are just theories... ill check...

nope i didnt... but i will actually go on wikipedia and get the article up... theres tones of theories on what will happen in 2012... one of them is we all advance in evolution... doesnt mean it will happen...

im not full of it... im saying things with out back up proof again...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012

read the december part of the article... it'll explain some of the theories of what might happen...

as for myself... i need to seriously do a fourth check on my posts now... i need to start getting in some evidence on some of these theories to be reframed form being called full of myself

oh and im sure youll need to explore around that article (click some of the links that help explain the 2012 mayan calendar part) just so you'll see most of the theories that have been proposed... or i might just be full of myself in reality

also on the sun... wouldnt it first become a supernova first? like turn into a red giant and then a supernova?

i need to re-check on my science...

Actually the sun is far too small a star to form a black hole. The sun will expand, drawing the innermost planets into itself - being termed a red giant - before shrinking into a white dwarf.

And as for the evolution taking millions of years Zhou - think how far humanity has come in the last 200 years or so. Every generation has completely reinvented itself. We've gotten taller, smarter (admittedly a matter of opinion) and longer lived. The next link in the evolutionary scale could already be about, but dormant, or only in a select few people.

Oh yes Rocker, the idea of overpopulation dooming us all came and went in the 1990's. The only areas with growing populations are in Africa and certain parts of Asia. In the Western world most every country is experiencing an aging population, leading to a tax defecit towards pensions in the UK and several other European countries. And thanks to battery farming we have all the food we'll ever need. To be honest, I'd see global warming lasting as a fad for another 10 years tops before everyone throws that one out like Global cooling and the 'Big Freeze' of the 70's or whenever it was and a population boom.

Humanity is a tremendously resilient race. There's no reason why we should have evolved past the caveman mentality, nor how we've survived all the problems that have arisen both before and after. Yet humanity always finds a way to stumble blindly on.

actualy if the sun died out it would turn into a black hole and destroy evrything in the solar system.
[/quote] Including humanity....so yes.

little known fact. the neandertalls had the same brain capacity as us humans . hallarius isn't it.

it will remain scattered in the brains of distant creatures.

well i guess we would be made into tiny unseen particals..... if you think about it like that we would live forever anless a hydrogen bomb were droped

That reminds me of the Y2k Bug...what a shambles.

And i made a mistake before Orion, i meant to say "No-one will know when humanity will die out, thus this topic isn't really a debate."

Everybody is just posting their views and then correcting others..

Some scientists believe our genes are aging, as in, younger generations are becoming affected by ailments usually aimed at older people.

The only evidence the scientists have is similar to 20 year olds getting Alzheimers etcetera. Despite this they lack enough evidence to prove themselves right yet.


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no one knows half the things wer'e debating about on other subjects

And you've demonstrated that fact remarkably well. Congratulations. Of course there's a slight difference between capacity and how much you know. Neanderthals had the same ability to learn as people today, but they didn't. We learn throughout our lives.



I'd quite like to contradict that, due to most of the debates being about points of view, therein suggesting that every person knows exactly what their interpretation of the subject matter is. What this 'debate' - and yes I do use the term very liberally there - is about is predicting the future. Something quite impossible within our current understanding of the laws of time and space. For all we know, some aliens could come and destroy the Earth due to some botched bureaucracy in building an intergalactic highway the day after tomorrow.

Egg-zactly.

But then again, who are we to know that nobody knows when humanity will die?

We are making a total generalisation that not one soul being in all of humanity knows the answer, whereas, not one soul being in all of humanity knows everybody.

Therefore it can be said that this debate isn't really a topic to debate, it's merely a brainstorming of ideas which could be debated upon if one felt the need to prove a statement correct or otherwise.


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thank you i have demenstrated it well . everyone knows theyr own perception on this to. where have i hears that superhiway thing before

I give it abnout thousand or so years then we will all break out in termoile and then we will end up killing are selfs while some guy stands around repeating "I sense a disturbence in the force"

I suggest you look at the post above you.

I've heard different things about the sun, ranging from it going black, to expanding and eating up the first 4 planets, and then going black.

All state that its a couple (5 I think) billion years until anything happens.


However, if the guys want something to screw with their minds, males will be obsolete in 500,000 years. Women will be able to produce asexually.

Sadly it is possible. Before we are born we are all women. Then are testicals drop either before or after birth.
So many diffrent possible ways.

Whats with the 2012, we gonna listen to a bunch of primitive Indians when the world ends? Right now I'm

thinking if we piss off Russia alot they can unleash that giant bomb that can blow up everything.

Supposedly they have one. I voted "longer"

Let's see here. I'll give it 293 years, 4 months, 18 days, 2 hours, and 28 minutes.

Anyways, longer than 100 years.


~Muskets

First of all, I wasn't talking about "your" science of the Mayan Calendar. I was talking about what you said on Evolution. I believe that was clearly stated in my post. Let me check, yep. I referred to evolution after I posted.

Second of all, you're backed up by nothing but hollow shells. Your "evidence" doesn't even have enough evidence to support them.

Perhaps it would make you feel better, since you did not want to support anything, to call those scientists full of it instead of you full of it.

And full of it is not full of yourself.

Hydrogen / Other environmentally-friendly fuels are in the making. Hydrogen powered cars' exhaust is water, which you can drink.

No, the exhaust should be hydrogen.

You fill it with water.

Otherwise the streets would be flooded.

Screw cars lets get some boats out.

Boats would be fun no?

And i'm not actually surprised about all this excitement over the year 2012, as every few years or so, a new conspiracy theory rears it's ugly head only to enthuse the bored/lonely/weird/or just plain dumb people.

I am almost sure that the 2012 conspiracy theory has been taken out of context by western theorists.


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TBH, Im a catholic and I dont know what the bible says when the earth will end and etc, but the apocalypse and all hell will brake loose.

But Were close to teleportation, and Mars is being observed if its an oxygen planet, so people might move to there. Or there will be a form of humans travelling at light speed and theyre will be a new galaxy discoverd and many lifeforms to meet and communicate with and we'll end up living in theyre galaxy and abandon earth

I dont think earths going to end any time soon

Let's just say it'll last a ----ing long time.

It's not really a conspiracy theory. It's just a bunch of crazy people yelling that it's the end.

Kind of like Y2K.

I know its off topic... but your wrong mate

One of the rules of chemistry = to Break bonds, you apply energy, energy is absorbed. To make chemical bonds, spare electrons are needed and energy is released.

Hydrogen being forced to separate from the Oxygen molecules in water takes in energy.
Hydrogen bonding to oxygen molecules releases energy.

You pump your car full of hydrogen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle

Thats why when you burn logs, you get CO2 and Ash.... You dont burn ash and CO2 to get logs

(Learn Chemistry and Biology guys, its way cooler than media studies)

Oh, so water vapor comes out?

I'll go read it.

Either way it'll be a lot of water.

The world will last as long as Chuck Norris wants it to.

End.

all hail chuck norris. kakrida speaks the truth.

Well humanity will last longer than sick humanity.


Gunny

a lil long

i suggest we read up on wikipedia the expected events that are suppose to happen in the future... might get a good idea of things that could provoke unexpected events to happen...

spent my 4th hour class today (my computer applications class...i hate it, to easy...) searching up years on wikipedia, went up to the year 2017 i think before i got bored... i think we will live long, im just very curious on whether anything will happen on december 21-23, 2012... im hoping something significant happens... and not some prophecy of the end of the world...

eitherway, theres some theory that is trying to disprove global warming, ill find its article, i hardly believe it though since i find it very unrealistic in my opinion, its the daisyworld theory, its been simulated apparently...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_Theory / gives a short description of the daisyworld simulations... also states how the earth is supposidly keeping itself alive...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisyworld / the actual thing...

also anyone know about this guy who is supposidly from the future? / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
this guy says alot of events will take place in the near future and will supposidly effect us more than we might wish, the whole thoery on time travel though makes things kinda hard to believe until you look at the many worlds interpretation, but even then its hard to believe this guys from the future / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation and the whole time travel article... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel

hmm i think i have appeared to go off topic slightly...