How will the human race come to an end?
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Because nuclear war was and is way overrated as a population killer.0
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To all of you touting nuclear war as an option, I have some phacts from PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET that say otherwise.
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/how-i-learnt-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb/0 -
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Simontheintrepid wrote:To all of you touting nuclear war as an option, I have some phacts from PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET that say otherwise.
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/how-i-learnt-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb/
Most people seriously underestimate how long even a fast extinction would be likely to take - say 10,000 years, which is a blink of an eye in geological terms, but would be time for an awful lot more episodes of Coronation Street.0 -
Which is why, short of a major solar burp, that homo sapians will be around for a long while. We're just too tenacious and hard to kill...0
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Why don't governments do more to prevent people from having (as many) children? Promotion of contraception could be a human race life saver.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... arth-roger0 -
pst88 wrote:All the people with jobs will work themselves to death before having kids whilst the lazy will keep churning out kids who expect everything to be handed to them for free but the people who could do that will already be dead. They'll eventually die too lazy or incompetent to look after themselves.
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You'd imagine as humans become more global and more multicultural that humans will also become genetically more homogeneous.
The little I know about plants and other animals is that homogeneity leaves the entire lot very exposed to one killer disease.
I'd suggest something like that is the likeliest - which goes someway to show how unlikely I think human extinction in any time but the very distant future is.0 -
the killer disease theory is highly unlikely but not impossible - spanish flu or ebola show that a disease can spread quickly and kill but it would have to be on another level to really knock out the whole of earth....
although if we class the human race as Homo Sapien (or whatever the current sociological classification of us is) then the next genetic set of humanoids that replace us could be classed as the end of the human race"I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, how good is that"
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i'd say the first two riders will be disqualified for doping . Then the rest of the peliton will come over the line in a go slow .0
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Hey! What's tha....Purveyor of "up"
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sorry missed this thread been out for a lovely ride on amazingly quiet roads, so is anyone out there ?A punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet ?0 -
Zombie apocalypse or virus infection :-)2010 Lynskey R230
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AIDS. (this is the 80/90's isn't it?)0
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My money is on fossil fuel depletion.
We've proved that as a species, we cannot and will not change our energy-intensive ways.
I think we'll probably end in a war of mutual extinction, fighting over the last deposits of oil somewhere.
There, that cheered you up didn't it! 0 -
Kerguelen wrote:My money is on fossil fuel depletion.
We've proved that as a species, we cannot and will not change our energy-intensive ways.
I think we'll probably end in a war of mutual extinction, fighting over the last deposits of oil somewhere.
There, that cheered you up didn't it!
Which nobhead ain't been getting adequate use from their bags for life, ill 'av em!0 -
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LeicesterLad wrote:
Which nobhead ain't been getting adequate use from their bags for life, ill 'av em!
Not me mate, I always bring my rucksack! 0 -
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The Jackalcp wrote:JC = Jesus Christ
Whooooooooooooossshhhhhh0 -
Loss of resources caused by overproduction of bike frames in Taiwan - I knew it was Wiggle all the time0
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It will be water not oil we kill each other for.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/the-dark-si ... flict.html0 -
Jay dubbleU wrote:Loss of resources caused by overproduction of bike frames in Taiwan - I knew it was Wiggle all the time
And they would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those pesky BikeRadar members.
The Mail and the Express will probably blame Brussels for the end of the world [1]. Or immigrants. Or both. :roll:
David
[1] "How global apocalypse could affect your house price", etc."It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal0 -
The Jackalcp wrote:JC = Jesus Christ
If he turned up for a 2nd time he'd probably get a damn good hiding for the mess and problems he caused after his first visit.0 -
verylonglegs wrote:
If he turned up for a 2nd time he'd probably get a damn good hiding for the mess and problems he caused after his first visit.
I think it was the rest of us that caused all the problems, not him.https://www.bikeauthority.cc/
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Stewie Griffin wrote:It will be water not oil we kill each other for.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/the-dark-si ... flict.html
I don't think any war or dwindling of resources would finish off the human race directly, although there might be a massive 'correction' to the global population.0 -
Technological Singularity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge ... arity.html
"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
..Just so I'm not guilty of a relative-time ambiguity, let me more specific: I'll be surprised if this event occurs before 2005 or after 2030."
So any day now, then.
We'll know it's about to happen when Siri, the new CEO of Apple, announces that the iPhone 7G will have a direct neural interface and a selection of 'Mind Apps'. On the bright side, our Borg-like successors will be able to control the Shimano Di4 shifters on their integrated carbon exoskeletal propulsion systems by thought alone.0
at the grumpy old men on here!
