How long will humanity survive?

Answer 1

Thousands of years at least.

Answer 2

If we continue on the way we're going and stay on Earth, I give humanity another hundred years, two at the most before we try to blow ourselves to bits.

We need to solve the problems that nations and ethnic groups have with each other but most importantly, we need to set up permenant colonies on the Moon and Mars with a view to going extra-solar.

Now that we think we've found evidence of running water on Mars and knowing that there is H20 in the Martian ice caps, we won't need to take much with us which will cut down on a lot of the weight. The water will help us set up hydroponic centres which means that we'll be able to grow food and start to create our own oxygen recycling system.

If we can get all this started then in a thousand years, we may have been able to terraform the Martian landscape and our descendants may have adapted to the environment so keenly that they may not need EVA suits.

We already know of scores of Jupiter-sized planets, we can set generational ships off towards these planets under the assumption that there may be smaller planets not far away. Even if they aren't there, by the time the ship reaches the co-ordinates, the crew's descendants may already view the vehicle as their home.

Many of these ships could become arks, harbouring the very essance of humanity and ensuring that our values - such as they are - survive.

Answer 3

about 4 years

Answer 4

As long as we allow it too.

Yes I am afraid that Humanity will kill Humanity more than likely. I am actually quite surprised that we lasted through the 70's and 80's without frying the planet by MAD. Now it is more than likely that we will die out due to either a Man made cause or because we do not alter our attitudes to the planet.

Answer 5

Of course there will always be survivors to rebuild and carry up new civilizations and technologies - History tells us that.
But the sudden demise is surely the overpopulation, war, famine, disease effect, as is at critical mass, now.

Without religion, stable cultures, and with (Psychological warfare - Our media's effect on us by Communists) competition for resources (Gas, fish, farming, etc.), then there is NO WAY to get young men and women from looking to the fastest, cheapest, most enjoyable recreation of all - SEX.
Take a population count, and see what I mean.
The "Good" news is that Red China has vastly overextended its resources, and will probably collapse from pollution, water depletion (Or Mother Nature's return with a vengence to their flood season - Wipe out the Walmart factories of the Pearl River/3 Gorges Dam area), and inherent Communist corruption this upcoming flood season of June and July.
If you want to invest in the Stock Market, buy Mexican Trucking stocks (as they come to fill our newly needed factories) and Canadian raw resources, as we reform our "AMERICAN" borders for ALL Americans.
(If you don't speak Spanish or Bacon French, NOW would be a great time to learn!)
And what a relief it will be! Gone ! Will be over 40 years of their tampering with our political, social, moral, religious , historical and sexual ways of life!
Their big egotistical #1 in Space deal has already been slapped on the wanky, in a very quiet, but definitive way.
Now, the Commie leaders will have to deal with a very, very, unhappy population that will demand to know why their leadership brought them to the brink of starvation.
(Answer? Historically, massive unemployment has been the way Dictators have raised armies, started wars, conquered other lands, and engaged in mass atrocities.)
Now is a good time to be a young American, believe me.

Answer 6

Not much longer unless the world deals with the USA, Gets rid of Bush and prevents early defence missiles from being sited in Europe.

Answer 7

it would properly be so straight forward as an outbreak that spreads really. The Plague of the middle a lengthy time period become an celebration, yet people did not fly airplanes and spread ailments a short as today. we should not be right here perpetually. No living species does. Our species possibly right here for yet another one hundred,000 years. people did live on the merely accurate ice age, which will live on hardships, yet possibly no longer in tremendous numbers..

Answer 8

We are.
We were.
We will be.

Creation forms when energy bits
called "quarks" explode and interface
with invisible forces known as Laws
Of Physics.

Time and space are merely by-products
of this reaction.

Answer 9

Depends. Right now things that could kill us are like a Dieing Star, nuclear holocaust, pandemic, global warming, asteroid, etc. Some scientists believe that earth is 90% through it's habitable state.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/NeatAstronomy/

Answer 10

Judging by some of the questions you hear on yahoo answers, not very long

Answer 11

5 billion years.hydrogen is turned into helium in the suns core but when the sun runs out of hydrogen something very hyper bad will happen...
...the sun will lose it magnetic field and its gravity...it will start growing in heat and size...it will get so big that is will touch the earth...all the earths oceans will evaporate the same second...the same thing will happen to people,animals,plants...then the sun will start to get smaller and it will as small as the earth...it will turn into a white dwarf...a spoon out of a white dwarf weighs 1,000 tons.