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When will Humans Get Extinct?

Posted by dosox • 9/02/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: death, extinct, life, man, woman

Do you have any idea when will humans get extinct?

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9/02/08

carlgalloway

You seem to be a very morbid person. However, I don't think humans will become extinct, instead I think we'll use technology to evolve to our next logical level

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1. 9/02/08
  
  dosox
  
  You mean robots will be the next human....
9/02/08

Friday13

On February 30th.

Mark my words.

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9/02/08

sayzlim

Yeah, Let me check my calender...

In 2012 doomsday

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9/02/08

chrisso

They will become extinct when the climate becomes too rough to allow survival of human beings on earth...

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9/02/08

christopherhib

All prophets point to the year 2012 :S so heads up everyone since none of them have ever seen past that date.

However it Could be September 9th 2008, when they finally fire up the LHC for real.

LHC= Large Hadron Collider, They are trying to understand how the universe began with this. The side effect is it creates mini black holes that last fractions of a second, should one of these stabilise. Theres a very real threat it could suck the earth inside out.

who knows tbh? lol

google LHC though, I'm sure you'll find it interesting

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1. 9/02/08
  
  dosox
  
  that sounds embarrassing
9/02/08

boytrotters

When will we become extinct? When "extinct" becomes the next fad... which is any day now.

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9/02/08

dlowe

Is Extinct a new body wash or something?

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1. 9/02/08
  
  boytrotters
  
  Ha! Love it! New "Extinct"! Wash all your cares away. And you. Literally.
2. 9/03/08
  
  dosox
  
  check out the oxrod dictionary. It gives better dictionary
3. 9/03/08
  
  Anniepooh
  
  LOL
9/02/08

thefly

Tomorrow

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1. 9/03/08
  
  Arashmania
  
  yesterday ; )
9/02/08

Theresa111

Never.

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9/02/08

voodooKobra

I don't think humans will go extinct, but it's inevitable that humans will evolve into something else.

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1. 9/02/08
  
  Theresa111
  
  Aliens vs Predators
9/02/08

AmmoBob

It will happen at 06:66 am, 666 days after the Presidential election. So it was written, so it shall be...

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9/02/08

werelax

The last human was born in 1958, the rest robots and alien spawn according to my research.

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9/02/08

thewriterspulse

As soon as I finish my death ray...

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9/02/08

timethief

Have you heard about The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement? www.vhemt.org/
Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense.

Humans, like all creatures, have urges which lead to reproduction. Our biological urge is to have sex, not to make babies. Our "instinct to breed" is the same as a squirrel's instinct to plant trees: the urge is to store food, trees are a natural result. If sex is an urge to procreate, then hunger's an urge to defecate.

Culturally-induced desires can be so strong that they seem to be biological, but no evolutionary mechanism for an instinct to breed exists. Why do we stop breeding after we've had as many as we want? If the instinct is to reproduce, how are so many of us able to over ride it? There are too many who have never felt that urge: mutations don't occur in this high a percentage of a population.

Although most conceptions are unintended, a desire to conform to what society considers normal is probably the number one cause of wanted pregnancies. Many who continue to breed have never considered doing otherwise. Natalist propaganda remains insidiously rampant and rampantly insidious.

Considering how often our species has the urge for sex, it's likely human sexuality serves primarily a pair-bonding function rather than procreative. Human infants are vulnerable for so long that their survival, in prehistoric times, may have depended on a strong pair bond between parents. Bonobos, perhaps our closest biological relative, are reported to engage in sex for social reasons more than for reproductive reasons.

Some folks say, "Extinction is natural. 99.9% of all species of plants and animals that have ever existed have gone extinct."

Puts it into perspective, doesn't it? We shouldn't get peeved about a few million extinctions today. It's all part of the natural process of life on Earth.

By the same reasoning, we shouldn't care about people dying young. Most people who have ever lived are already dead, and all of us will die eventually. It follows that extinction of the human race shouldn't raise an eyebrow, either.

However, if it's true that species alive today represent only 0.1% of Earth's entire biological history, their extinctions are all the more tragic. After evolving at the expense of kabillions of other species, and passing genetic coding on through billions of years, any species alive today, including our own, deserves profound respect and reverence.

In a sense, all living things are at the peak of evolution. Sacrificing the very existence of any life form for something as superfluous and transitory as money is an outrageous crime against Nature.

Today's extinction rate is estimated to be between a hundred and one thousand times the average for the eons, and virtually every species' demise stems from the activities of one species. Guess who.

Our voluntary extinction for the eternal good of all other life on Earth will be the ultimate demonstration of the best qualities of humanity: compassion and reason.

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1. 9/03/08
  
  blogonsmog
  
  "Culturally-induced desires can be so strong that they seem to be biological, but no evolutionary mechanism for an instinct to breed exists."
  
  Timethief - this is one statement I have to disagree with strongly. Evolution dictates which species survive and which don't. If a species does not have a strong genetic will to survive and populate then evolution will eliminate that species. The human population does not have "culturally-induced desires" - we all have genetically programmed desires and without them we would not be here as a species. Surely you must have been a teenager at some point in your life. If so you must remember the uncontrollable hormones racing through your body. It would be impossible to do what you say without neutering each and every child before puberty.
2. 9/03/08
  
  timethief
  
  @blogonsmog
  I do believe we have culturally inculcated desires based on role modeling and peer pressure that encourage us to produce offspring. Without doubt our those who choose to remain childfree do suffer a societal stigma. Anyway, I hope that you do understand that I was just tossing this into the mix.
9/02/08

globalgirl

As you finish the last word on this response, you will no longer exist and all you think you see and experience will only be a figment of your small imagination.

Poof. It's over.

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1. 9/03/08
  
  boytrotters
  
  Now I'm scared...
  
  Poof.
9/02/08

LaurenLanita

Well...I hadn't really thought about it.
I am hoping that I won't be around for it....and since I plan to live a good long time, I'm thinking we can all breathe easy for a while.
But thanks for bringing it up!

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9/03/08

fated82

It will not happen. However, we will go back to where it all began...sticks and stones.

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1. 9/03/08
  
  dosox
  
  I don't think the robots will play with sticks and stones
9/03/08

xmarks

nuclear war
global warming
plague
meteor strike
technology gone wrong (i.e. Terminator)

extinction is a possibility. As technology increases, we make more exciting ways of killing ourselves. We will become extinct but not today.

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1. 9/03/08
  
  dosox
  
  I agreed.
9/03/08

weemundo

Umm arn't we supposed to live till 2012 atleast :/ , i want my Windows 7 DVD :-(

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9/03/08

kdawg68

If I had to guess about a mass-extinction of our species, I'd think that climate change would be a good cause for that effect. Note that I'm not running around claiming that SUVs are going to make us go extinct - I'm thinking more along the lines of "natural" climate fluctuations - like what we saw in 1815 but on a larger scale.

1815 was the famed "year without a summer" for much of the world, ostensibly due to a massive volcanic eruption the year before. Red snow in Italy. Brown snow in the U.S. Blizzard conditions in New England through July and August, followed (naturally) by massive crop failure.

There would have to be some trigger for a massive kill-off. Somewhat frighteningly, this seems to be the way things go on this planet. From the Permian extinction on through the end of the dinosaurs.

Another factor could be the evolution of another species (perhaps even human-like) that out competes us for resources. Here I'm thinking about the end of our closest cousins, the Neanderthal. While highly unlikely that another bipedal humanoid creature would be given rise, I suppose we can't rule anything completely out over the vastness of time.

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9/03/08

annaswan

If humans start to go extinct - I call dibs on my neighbors house...

just sayin...

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