Terminator

[Trinidad]

I'm one of two votes for we will survive forever.  After all, it only takes one Adam and one Eve.

That makes me wonder about the gender of the two of you. :D

 

Rik

[Hanoi5]

I'm one of two votes for we will survive forever. After all, it only takes one Adam and one Eve.

 

The rest of you probably pass invitational 2 notrump bids on a regular basis.

 

I am the other. And I also hate 2NT, such a stupid contract.

[Al_U_Card]

The French expression "Jamais deux sans trois" has a lot of potential interpretations but that would be a new one....lol

[luke warm]

Europe may be in its last warm spell for a while.

do they know that? and have they told al gore yet?

[Al_U_Card]

Europe may be in its last warm spell for a while.

do they know that? and have they told al gore yet?

Al Gore will be a major source of "Cap and trade" credits, all by himself...

[y66]

I voted for comet/meteor. Tossup between that and hydrogen depletion of the sun. Disease, war and warming will keep population size in check until then so maybe it won't be so bad when it happens. :)

[vuroth]

White Plague

[Gerben42]

We will survive until the hydrogen depletion of the Sun

 

By this time, humans as we know it won't exist anymore. Evolution and all.

 

Comet/meteor impact

 

Even an unexpected impact won't end all humans. Some of us will survive living on submarines or laboratories. Thanks to emancipation, these areas are not populated just by men.

 

Alien invasion

 

No way. They would already have done so.

 

Boredom

 

Don't see how that will work.

 

AIDS

 

Not going to happen. Thanks to sexual education and contraception, AIDS is under control in most places. Which raises the point: what should be the penalty for those who try to keep condoms away from people in AIDS-infested areas (including but not limited to the Pope and some South-African politicians).

 

Influenza

 

No influenza-virus has even gotten close to 100% mortality rate.

 

Some other transmittable disease

 

Even in scenarios like "I am legend", some pockets of humans will survive, somewhere. Most likely in Polynesia or so.

 

Global warming

 

Too slow, we will adapt. Besides, we'll move to Mars before the oceans start to boil off.

 

Some other polution-related problem

 

Moving to Mars again...

 

Food shortage induced by over-crowding

 

Will cause billions of deaths, and is probably going to happen this century. But this will reduce the population to a billion or so.

 

Freshwater shortage

 

Ditto. Likely to happen, likely to reduce us to a billion or so.

 

Energy shortage

 

We can do without. We have before...

 

Depletion of some other essential resource

 

We will do without, I guess.

 

Bee extinction

 

Won't be fun, but someone will figure out a solution.

 

Extinction of gut bacteria

 

Again, don't see how this would affect a lonely island in Polynesia.

 

Extinction of some other essential species

 

Might not be fun at all, but won't kill us.

 

Decay of the human genome

 

If by this you mean evolution, then yes. In 5 million years, the humans then will be as different from us as we are from our common ancestor with the chimpansees.

 

War

 

Not efficient enough.

 

Other

 

The greatest danger is some invention that would systematically and intelligently try to kill all humans.

[jjbrr]

I think a large enough comet would almost certainly end all humans.

[luke warm]

I think a large enough comet would almost certainly end all humans.

wormwood

[jjbrr]

I think a large enough comet would almost certainly end all humans.

wormwood

The New Testament is also a candidate for global killer?

[OleBerg]

Hoped this topic was about the movie. :)

 

Fortunately, no problem twisting my post in that direction. :D

 

In the Terminator movies, humankind is close to destruction, because an artificially intelligent system (Cyberdyne) gains control, and the humans can't "switch it off".

 

I fear something slightly similar might happen: The exclusion of common sense and discretion in favor of laws that must be obeyed, no matter how stupid.

 

Thus another "system", uncontrolled laws, will rule.

 

So when Global Warming, Extinction of some kind, or something else, which we could stop threatens our civilization, it will die "according to rules", as no person or group will be powerful enough to "switch it off".

[Fluffy]

Decay of the human genome

 

If by this you mean evolution, then yes. In 5 million years, the humans then will be as different from us as we are from our common ancestor with the chimpansees.

I hate to talk about evolution, but I am afraid we are not getting natural selection nowadays, everyone has human rights, and those who are different are getting help from the government.

 

I don't mean to say helping them is wrong, but we are moving on every direction, not just forward.

 

 

The Aliens would had done it yet?, probably for our life time/history, but before the sun depletes its a huge enough time.

[Winstonm]

Decay of the human genome

 

If by this you mean evolution, then yes. In 5 million years, the humans then will be as different from us as we are from our common ancestor with the chimpansees.

I hate to talk about evolution, but I am afraid we are not getting natural selection nowadays, everyone has human rights, and those who are different are getting help from the government.

 

I don't mean to say helping them is wrong, but we are moving on every direction, not just forward.

 

 

The Aliens would had done it yet?, probably for our life time/history, but before the sun depletes its a huge enough time.

I nominate this post for the Shube Award as year's best.

[Winstonm]

I think a large enough comet would almost certainly end all humans.

wormwood

The New Testament is also a candidate for global killer?

I thought he meant Karen Silkwood's brother, Worm. :)