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Will the human race ever become extinct? Majorly depleted? Will it happen soon? How will it happen?

Here are some theories to get your dead brains rolling:

- Cosmic disaster
*meteor
*gamma ray burst
*death of the sun
*tilting of Earth's axis
*unforeseen cosmic disaster on a greater scale than we can comprehend

-Natural disaster
*volcanoes
*ice age
*earth quakes
*floods

-Human Disasters
*zombie virus
*WWIII/nuclear holocaust
*overpopulation/food scarcity

-Godly Intervention
*Christian/Jewish/Islam apocalypse

Now I'm asking you all as scientists to put forth your best scientific guess because I need to prepare.

You're missing one of the key possibilities here... an artificial intelligence takeover!

Even if there were a globally spread virus or depletion of resources, chances are a few pockets of humans will survive.  I think it will take a drastic change in the ecosystem (eg temperature) in order to fully wipe us out.



That being said, I think the most likely scenario for human eradication is: Oprah will eat us all.

kyle:
You're missing one of the key possibilities here... an artificial intelligence takeover!

How many years out are we from this? Will staying away from modern technology increase a persons chances for survival?

god you guys suck

nicole:


How many years out are we from this? Will staying away from modern technology increase a persons chances for survival?

I don't know/care but if I had to guess, I'd list the most probably apocalyptic events as such:
Deaths by dehydration due to an over-exhaustion of the worlds fresh water supplies.
Super volcano fucks the shit out our atmosphere.
Artificial intelligences takeover, and/or humans permanently enter a virtual world.

But really that's only if by 'end of human world' you mean large population decline due to a singular event. Humans are far too resilient to let the entire species die from any type of feasible disaster.

Alien subjugation.

kyle:
Humans are far too resilient to let the entire species die from any type of feasible disaster.

lmao
ever
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Adam:
Alien subjugation.

Now we're talking
Ignatuns or Reptilians?

Don't worry, the world isn't going to end. God just hates Japan.

Killed by a hundred-foot marshmallow man, because Ray tried to think of the most harmless thing from his childhood; thereby setting into motion a chain of events that leads to the sugary destruction of all humoids from this planet leaving the ant as ruler of the world. That's my guess at least.

nicole:

Now we're talking
Ignatuns or Reptilians?

Tralmafadorians.

Virginia:

Killed by a hundred-foot marshmallow man, because Ray tried to think of the most harmless thing from his childhood. There by setting into motion a chan of events that leads to the sugary destruction of all humoids from this planet leaving the ant as ruler of the world. That's my guess at least.

nobody steps on a church in my town!

Supernova and then either

I will have an older gentleman pick me up in his telephone time machine and whisk me away

OR

The Stargate would have been found in Antarctica and one of you science folk will offer me a spot in the SG1 like Vala Mal Doran

OR

I would be dead by then and who cares?

Virginia:


Killed by a hundred-foot marshmallow man, because Ray tried to think of the most harmless thing from his childhood. There by setting into motion a chan of events that leads to the sugary destruction of all humoids from this planet leaving the ant as ruler of the world. That's my guess at least.

What if we create some sort of weapon that roasts him and makes him explode?
We would need a lot of chocolate and gram crackers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vHQDt4mOqA
N-joy!

Numerous Earth-destroying doomsday scenarios have recently been analyzed, including breakdown of a metastable vacuum state and planetary destruction triggered by a "strangelet'' or microscopic black hole. We point out that many previous bounds on their frequency give a false sense of security: one cannot infer that such events are rare from the the fact that Earth has survived for so long, because observers are by definition in places lucky enough to have avoided destruction. We derive a new upper bound of one per 10^9 years (99.9% c.l.) on the exogenous terminal catastrophe rate that is free of such selection bias, using planetary age distributions and the relatively late formation time of Earth. [http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512204]

http://www.nickbostrom.com/