What are the odds that humans will eventually die out and what do you think will be the most likely cause?

Answer 1

It's a certainty that 'humans' (as we know ourselves) will someday have evolved into something else. How long it will take is anybodies guess, but our oldest homonid ancesters go back about 7 to 10 million years.

Doug

Answer 2

The human race nearly did die out, it went down to a mere 3000 (I think) or 300, summat like that. Makes you wonder how they managed to get through eh?

I have pondered on this many times. I think the human races biggest downfall is that people work against each other. Only when the poo hits the fan do they learn to work with each other.

Imagine what you would have to do to survive though? Let's put it this way, you will not survive long if you are vegetarian!

The planet is going t**s up, as it is prone to doing anyway by way of mother nature, let alone human intervention. It will be survival of the fittest and those with enough brains. Mostly it will be the most physically strong/barbaric/unemotional/ cold and calculating among us who will survive the longest.

Answer 3

You can bet the ranch that either our government or another one will release a biological weapon and it will spread world wide in weeks killing every man woman and child on this world. Even if a vaccine were possible they will not go into production and distribute it because it would cause mass riots and fear. Your only possible escape will be Divine Intervention! Has anyone noticed that they never did find who sent those letters with the anthrax spores inside! And regardless what the feds say about how you need complex equipment and knowledge to create such weapons,none of that is true! Anyone can do it with common resources and very little knowledge of biology! Good luck your all on your own soon!

Answer 4

Despite all the doomsayers, I suspect the human race will be around for a very long time. People tend to see the problems of the human race more that the progress. The news is full of scary headlines, but most people do what most people have always done: quietly go about the job of making a better life for their children.

Answer 5

Odds are very good. Give it a decade. Most likely causes could be the middle east battle for Jerusalem, russia feeling left out, leading to WW3. Hunger will then kill off the rest.

Answer 6

The odds on humans dying out are 100% certain. Guaranteed. Absolutely nailed on. Eventually......

Most likely cause - global warming, rendering our planet uninhabitable. How long we survive depends on how seriously we take the threat today.

Answer 7

The odds are slim that humans will die out . Humans will survive in the long run because we are survivors by nature

Answer 8

100%. Eventually, one day, humans won't exist. It will probably be millions of years from now when the sun dies. No matter what, humans can't exist FOREVER. There are obviously other possibilities like disease, global warming, or meteors... or whatever those things were that killed the dinosaurs.

Answer 9

What I do know is that when all known life dies out, ants will still be scurrying about their tasks. A friend of mine put some food with some ants on it into his microwave and gave it two minutes on full power. The food was cooked and the ants were groggy but still trotting about. Please believe me and don't go out catching ants to give it a try, they are busy enough without having to put up with silly experiments. Besides it must be painful for them, being nuked for peoples amusement.

Answer 10

It is inevitable, there have been numerous mass extintions in history not just the one that saw the end of the dinosaurs. The earth goes through changes sometime naturally, sometimetimes through external forces and many species don't survive. Insects to the best of my knowledge are the only creatures that have.