I'm thinking that by the time our sun turns into a "red giant" and gobbles up the closest 3 or 4 planets, the human race will have evolved enough to be able to travel to distant planetary systems by warping space with artificial gravity generators and colonize a compatible planet so that we could continue to evolve. The only other threats are nuclear war and asteroid collision.
Nuclear war has been avoided for almost all of the 70 years that the technology to blow ourselves to Hell has been available, but who knows? Our current president doesn't seem to care who he pisses off as long as his family and buddies continue to get rich. I would vote for a Buddhist for president, but they don't seem to be interested much in money.
The asteroid collision can be avoided with our current technology and should be more a global focus than religious, political and financial confrontations. There are scientists monitoring the Earth orbit crossing comets and asteroids, but they are underpaid because our "leaders" don't think that asteroid collision is a valid threat.
I do believe that our race will survive these threats, because by nature (and evolution), we are survivors. We just need more intelligent people in positions that enable them to make these decisions.
2006-11-06 00:49:09
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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I don't think our world would last until another is discovered for replantation or leaving this one for.
We're on the brink right now for ww3 most probably some idiot is going to get scared and push the button in some third world country and that's going to be it. Stop and think about it, how many atomic explotions can there be before the world is poisined?
We have to come together in peace, for our own good. We;re poisoning our world now with global warming that the governments are ignoring, big business is ignoring, we're ignoring.. Look at what's happening in the world with the wars.
We have to wake up and smell the roses or there won't be any.
'nough said.
2006-11-06 00:32:57
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answered by cowboydoc 7
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see you later as we don't destroy ourselves or the planet, we (or our descendants) we at last migrate from this planet and colonise the galaxy. I laugh each and every time I hear human beings communicate appropriate to the problems of area return and forth etc, as quickly as we've been exploring area for little over 0.5 a century! How short-sighted are you able to get! supply up being idiots and open your minds, human beings. are you able to certainly have faith that we are going to nonetheless be pootling around area in rockets in a million years from now? do no longer you think of technologies would have moved on from that? it somewhat is like the Romans poo-pooing the thought adult males ought to stroll on the moon, because of the fact no horse and chariot ought to ever return and forth rapid sufficient to get there! Adam, galaxies collide each and all of the time. Please coach your self in the previous answering.
2016-10-21 08:41:20
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answered by reatherford 4
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Consider this: Terrorists will eventually acquire nuclear weapons. It is only a matter of time(less than 100 years). It will be devastating. It could be catastrophic.
2006-11-06 00:29:23
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answered by maxima 5
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we are all going to die... that is a certainty...
The human race has clearly reached the end of its' useful life as far as the world is concerned... so I'd say that we are pretty much doomed as a species...
How long did it take the dinosaurs to die out?
I'd say we have a similar amount of time left!
2006-11-06 00:28:24
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answered by Harrison N 3
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I really don't think that the human race can evolve beyond what it is now.
2006-11-06 00:30:26
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answered by Anonymous
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We don't die out. We change ourselves. We will use genetic manipulation to alter ourselves so that we do not suffer from disease or radiation or require as much food. We will live naturally, though, for thousands of years. Little strings called telemeres at the end of our DNA strands wear down as we get older. When they wear out, we are at the end of our lives. But, if a parasitical virus, hypothetically, has lodged itself at the coupling of those telemeres and the DNA strand, and if it had locked down our telemere's natural 9700 year lifespan, and if we kill that bastardly parasitical virus, we will live 9700 years as we natually should, beginning with 200-300 "extra" years just to give people a little while to adjust to the concept. We will abandon some of our cultural institutions due to discoveries about energy and the nature of the Universe and astonishing advances in technology that are already occurring. For example, children will live independently much earlier, as young as eight years old, due to advances in Kevlor-like materials that affords ultimate protection when "worn" as a small house that is essentially a living space/life-womb/computer, from elements and all other dangers. In other words, our traditional concepts of Family and Home will change. Those little "suits/apartments/transportation units will prompt us to genetically alter ourselves to become smaller in order to consume less but mostly due to fashionable asthetics of the time favoring smallness. Eventually, we opt for ultimate smallness. Those suits which will fly or submerge and protect from the dangerous levels of radiation that are beginning to strike the earth from the sun and comic bursts. They afford us a lifestyle so mobile that we travel constantly all over the face of the earth, like a global, migrating species of bird. We collect images of the world and trade them with each other, amassing huge banks of images and experiences, something like You Tube is becoming. When we learn how to genetically access our default memories, we trade and collect those, too. Then, we begin to collect the genetic memories of other life forms, plant and animal. Eventually, due to changing significances in size and relativity, we opted to genetically become very small. Although the suits allow us ultimate connection with each other, we begin to exchange physically our collections of memories until huge banks of memory form. And then, again genetically, we begin to physically incorporate the memories of all the plants nad animals on this planet. We learn how to maintain individual consciousness in the collection of memories that we pass along through other lifeforms, essentially being able to experience first hand, for example, what a tree experiences, or a mosquito, or a field of grass. We learn how to access the memories of all living things before us , the memories that get passed down through genes. And, then, it happens. We negotiate with viruses and hitch a ride, consciously with them. Quickly, we abandon our bodies and become massive collected consciousness in viral entities. We get bored one day. And we leave this planet, with our planet's entire collective memory of every living thing that has ever been, on a solar wind. I don't. I'm staking my claim on this planet right now. Forever, it will be green and undisturbed. Essentially, she will have lost her fleas. Hypothetically, of course.
2006-11-06 01:45:41
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answered by Anonymous
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