Painful. DO NOT WANT.Ironman92;1339956 wrote:Teh Cubs win the WS.
This guy.tk421;1339952 wrote:as pessimistic as I am, humans will be on this planet a long long time yet still. The Earth, no matter what we think we are doing to it, will survive for another 5 billion years and die in a fiery death inside our expanding sun. Some greenhouse gases and plastic aren't going to damage this planet at all, the cycle of the sun has more impact on temperature on this planet than we do.
Lest anyone forget, this planet has gone through countless cycles of ice ages and warming up periods, all without any kind of heavy industry to effect the climate. The idea that we have more impact than the sun is laughable.
What if it's this situation?justincredible;1339958 wrote:Painful. DO NOT WANT.
We will evolve and survive. We just won't be humans anymore.gut;1340076 wrote:On a related note, would you rather go out with the bang, or hunkered down in your doomsday shelter waiting for your supplies to run out? Most likely, there's very little to nothing left meaning no hope of recovery....talk about depressing.
sleeper;1339912 wrote:I've actually seen studies that sperm count in males is on the decline. After a certain point, males will no longer produce enough sperm to maintain the population and thus humanity will slowly cease to exist.
Tell that to the Dinosaurs. :rolleyes:Mulva;1340085 wrote:To be completely wiped out? No time soon. 95% of humanity could die out and there would still be 350 million people left on the earth. Extinction would likely be a very slow process.
Basically equal the population of the US. Pretty amazing stat.Mulva;1340085 wrote:To be completely wiped out? No time soon. 95% of humanity could die out and there would still be 350 million people left on the earth. Extinction would likely be a very slow process.
Except nobody knows what killed the dinosaurs or how long it took.sleeper;1340094 wrote:Tell that to the Dinosaurs. :rolleyes:
Christ would take one look at today's world and say "shit, the printing press has put the miracle business out-of-work"ernest_t_bass;1340116 wrote:Christ will return before it happens.
I have faith, therefore I know.Mulva;1340106 wrote:Except nobody knows what killed the dinosaurs or how long it took.
While some high-profile scientists, such as Carl Sagan, have advocated the transmission of messages,[SUP][33][/SUP][SUP][34][/SUP] scientist Stephen Hawkinghas warned against it, suggesting that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on
Hawkings might be fairly prescient there. However, I'd submit alien's with the ability to travel to earth are probably already aware of the resources here. At a minimum, we have probes beyond where we can travel to sending us info so it stands to reason aliens would, as well. And if they are resource constrained, they would be very pro-active in identifying new sources.SportsAndLady;1340132 wrote:This will happen, and we'll all be dead and gone
Could this statement be any more racist?ccrunner609;1340175 wrote:anything that wipes out a large portion of our shitty gene pool would just wipe out all the crap. The dtrong genes would be left and the human race would live on bigger, better.
sleeper;1340181 wrote:Could this statement be any more racist?
CC could be black. It's not racist if a black person said it; it's their word.Ironman92;1340192 wrote:Coulda said the n word.
I wouldn't go that far. I think the Hollywood aspect is that such an advanced culture would view intelligent life as nothing more than animals that pose a mere inconvenience.tk421;1340147 wrote:The idea that a civilization that could travel to this planet would need our resources is Hollywood. There isn't anything on this planet that they couldn't get anywhere else.