What if the level of subtropic weather gets worse, will nature recreate the beasts that lived here before (through human-kind) and how will we survive ourselves in the years to come?
2006-06-26 13:23:11 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
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2006-06-26 13:31:13 · answer #1 · answered by Terry The Terrible 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whether it is an asteroid or burning fossil fuels or an increase in tectonic and seismic activity or nuclear war, the one thing you can count on, if the history of earth as we understand it is anything to go by, is that the world will change, speices will go extinct and new speices will arise as a result of mutation and adaptation. 95 percent of the speices that have lived on this planet are now extinct. Most became extinct long before humanity evolved. The average lifespan of a speices is about ten million years. Our speices is less than a million years old. Will we survive ourselves? Maybe not. But chances are humanity will survive for at least a few more generations. There are six billion of us on this year. Quite a few of us could die off in a radical, rapid climate change, and still leave enough behind for a viable gene pool. What new speices will arise from the climate change? That'll depend on what speices move into the vacated ecological niches. Once all the giant sea reptile died off, it left a niche open for giant sea mammals to evolve, but the whales and reptiles that occupy the same niche seem fairly similar. Will the next giant sea speices evolve from cephlapods? There are already giant squid, so maybe whale size octopi could be in the future. As for the land animals, who knows what will grow larger and what will shrink as new environments are created.
2006-06-26 21:13:16 · answer #2 · answered by Rico Toasterman JPA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
interesting point., but somehow i dont think that will be what is the ned of the world as we know it today.. perhaps consider that meteor that is travelling now in earth orbit. it is called NT72002 ? anyway it is destined to hit earth in some time, they have already calculted the years that it will hit if it misses the first time etc.. 2019 - 2035 - 2051/ that is why usa sent up that rocket ship last year2005 in jan it took till june to reach the meteror.. the rocket ship it split in two - one to explode some of the meteror and the other to recorde the damamge as they dont know if it will explode it or will it absorb the explosion as they not sure what the meteror is made of.. interesint really.. so they know something is on its way.....
"Mr Opik calls on Tony Blair to discuss the matter urgently with George
Bush - a naive plan, it seems to me, since it's 75,000-1 against Bush
knowing the difference between an asteroid and a haemorrhoid ("Tony, is
that one of them lumpy things you find on Uranus?")."
--The Mirror, 26 July 2002
2006-06-26 20:50:34 · answer #3 · answered by nikkiidaniels 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dammit! That used to be MY theory. If you want a clear answer, look into something called School of the Americas. It's located on an Army base. It's actually a lot worse than merely "kill or be killed".
2006-06-26 20:28:09 · answer #4 · answered by Search & Destroy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the dog-eat-dog mentailty never really went away in the first place.
2006-06-26 20:24:58 · answer #5 · answered by Starlight 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋