How will it end?

[Dac]

At the rate mankind is creating technology to kill him all the more faster wat do you believe will cause us to be eradicated from this earth...personally it would be from overpopulation followed closely with world hunger and thirst..

[Funka Genocide]

I'm a bright eyed optimist, so I say the eradication of man from this planet will be due to an intergalactic exodus which will occur sometime before the Sun explodes. Spreading the human species throughout the universe. As good as we are at killing eachother, were even better at making more of us, I mean seriously, what would you rather do?

[Fifthfiend]

How will it end?

Not with a bang, but a whimper.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

Its really hard to say. I mean we're perfectly capable of killing ourselves off, between our Nukes & making the Earth less & less habitable.

But then again, maybe once the problems get so bad that politicians can't claim they no longer exist, things might start to happen and we'll come back from that brink.

Frankly, prediciting the end is a bit hard, as there are too many variables to predict.

Then again, maybe it'll be the Giant Star Goat which gets us in the end.

Sky Warrior Bob

[Martyr]

Even after nuclear war, overpopulation, lack of food and water, fossil fuel depletion, and any other disaster, humans probably won't die off. We're dumb, but we're hardy. I don't think we can kill eachother off completely. There'll always be some survivors who can rebuild.

So, how will it really end? There's 2 schools of thought:

1. Somebody's religion turns out to be correct, and therein lies the solution.
2. Evolution is correct, and, because humans have peaked amazingly, they'll be overthrown when the crocodiles gain the capacity for high technology.

There is a fourth, I guess...
That is the asssumption that, by the time the sun goes out, humans will have no ability to travel to a habitable planet. This is largely possible because we are always at risk of running out of Earthly resources that we need to study the stars. But even still, we should be able to inprovise forever, or so I'd think. So this end is unlikely.

[MP37a]

Let's see the possible ways I believe the human race could end:
1.) nuclear war
2.) giant asteroid
3.) the moon falls out of earth's orbit causing a shift in earth's gravity causing mass flooding and earthquakes
4.) an alien species came and killed us
5.) the apocalypse
6.) the sun will burn out which we'll find out in the next 8 minutes
7.) a new disease will break out that causes the dead to rise and prey on the living
8.) Mutants did it
9.) Robots did it
10.) Killer Tomatoes did it
11.) I did it

[cruelty13]

I am also quite optimistic. I really don't care much if I die older then 50 or 60, and I will commit suicide if the world will definetly end. But I think humans won't just die out. I believe humans will evolve on and humans won't die out, Homo Sapiens Sapiens will die out and be replaced with something smarter, better and possibly peacefuller. There might even be many species.

[Ll!H]

Originally Posted by cruelty13

I believe humans will evolve on and humans won't die out, Homo Sapiens Sapiens will die out and be replaced with something smarter, better and possibly peacefuller. There might even be many species.

humans don't do a whole lot of natural evolving anymore. we've transcended survival of the fittest, producing a system where the weakest are given the most care. society itself becomes an entity feeding off and catering to the least adapted mutations possible. these people whom nature would have weeded out are allowed to further their inadequate genetic information. cripples, mentally deficients, homosexuals, and generally stupid people (while except for the latter, i really don't disagree with their continued existence) technically shouldn't be here. all results of condensed population. but that's ok, rock on man.
any evolution in the future of the human race will be the result of genetic engineering, creating humans who's very architecture will be designed for a specific task. we could go back to the system where a family's last name will designate their occupation. so, in a way, the evolution of man will result in a degradation of the societal entity, reverting it to a well-oiled but infantile being. but, unavoidably, someone will rise up and argue with this system. a revolution and coupe results, and a new America-like system is attempted, but as each human can still only perform one task well, this system will be poorly supported and will ultimately fall itself. many many many people die. so, the evolution of man will actually be its destruction. let's hope we don't evolve, eh?

[Illuminatus]

http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/exitmundi.htm

[videogamerz2000]

All I have to say is..... the Matrix.