How long will the human race survive?

Question

The earth wont last forever. In some billions years ahead, our sun will give us its last breath of energy until it vanishes into nothingness. And if we stay around, it seems we will share its fate. Will we die with it or move on somewhere else? When do you think that the last living human being will pass...?

Answer 1

Hi. Until it becomes extinct.

Answer 2

In my opinion, the human race will not last long. Look at the world today, aren't we just as barbaric as we were when Jesus of Nazareth came on the scene? We've only become more efficient at killing and even more efficient at keeping secrets. Homo sapiens are, cosmologically speaking, like babies going through the terrible-twos. We are just too unstable to say anything with certainty about our furture.

Oh and when the sun does eventually die, it will destroy Earth, not just vanish into nothingness. But don't worry about the Earth being vaporized by the Sun. Even if our species were forunate enough to have survived a million years, we would already have mastered space travel, whereby we can escape the death of our sun.

Answer 3

As long as the human race lives only on this planet its extinction can be caused by many factors, even before the final breath of the Sun.
One way to increase our probabilities of survival is to spread colonizing the Space and/or other planets or satellites of the solar system.
Then of course, when our Sun will become dangerous we should emigrate to other systems in our Galaxy.
And so on.
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Answer 4

Biologically we could be around for a while. Our species is about 275000 years old and other species of humans lived for 1000000 years before going extinct. Evolution is ongoing and eventually a new species of humans will come along. Who knows if they will be able to coexist with us. Or if they will want to. Maybe they will be able to see beyond our petty territorial desires, give earth to us, the "old ones", and just go off claiming the rest of the galaxy for themselves.
Which leaves us to the practical survival of humanity.

We are destrying the world at an alarming rate. We are actually the worst thing to happen to life on earth since the K-T event 65 million years ago! So unless we shape up, get ourselves together and begin to treat the planet like a spaceship with finite resources, which it is, instead of a magical box of toys with infinite resources we could be diggin our own graves. We are very fragile. Our agriculture is not flexible and will not be able to withstand any dramatic changes. And we are changing the climate in a very dramatic way. A collapse in our food production, just one year of global cropfailure, could spell the end of us. Because even as we speak 800 million people constantly live on the edge of starvation. If anything were to upset the fragile balance this group of 800 million would become an army of 800 million desperatly doing anything the can to survive. Because if their already limited foodsupply were suddenly cut off they wouldn´t just sit around and wait for death. So one year of global cropfailure could spark a war that rivals anything humanity has seen so far in destruction and death. In all likelyhood mushroom clouds would further damage foodproduction and fuel the conflict. When the radioactive dust finally settles humans just might be gone for good along with a good portion of all life.

Answer 5

in 2015 the infinitely taxable pockets of 60 million Baby Boomers are retired and demanding $1.5 trillion/year in Social Security and Medicare benefits. One doubts any technological civilization will make it past 2030. Failing Ragnarok, by 2050 all 60 mi^3 of petroleum will be consumed - no more petrochemicals, polymers, pharma, fuels.

Don't worry about the future. the future has been confiscated from the productive and force-fed to the reproductive. The future has been assassinated. Add a little entropy to the mix,

http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/splat.htm

Answer 6

I'm not sure if we will die, but scientists have been trying to find a way to transform the atmosphere on Mars to allow people to live there. At the moment, Mars is too cold and the atmosphere too thin to sustain human life. And maybe another Big Bang will happen after the solar system vanishes. ????? lol

Answer 7

I give humanity a few thousand years. With our ever increasing population, we'll use up more and more resources until ultimately we have nothing left. I think it will take around 10 to 15 billion people to drain the earth totally, thus resulting in starvation and cannibalism until we fall below a certain point and we either die of sickness or of hunger.

Answer 8

It is fairly certain that the human race
will not survive much longer than
november of 2008.

If hillary wins the presidential election
that will doom us to certain destruction.

Answer 9

We will destroy our own planet long before the sun does. We will be the victims of our success.

Answer 10

JUST THINK. IF WE STARTED ARE TECHNOLOGY ABOUT 2000 YEARS AGO AND WE ARE GETTING BETTER AND BETTER THEN THINK ABOUT ANOTHER 2000 YEARS. NOT THAT BUT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT BILLIONS. OF COURSE WE WON'T DIE. WE WILL ONLY NEED ANOTHER 2000 YEARS UNTIL WE GO TO OTHER STARS. HUMAN RACE WILL LIVE FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 11

human race will survive until god comes back to get us then that will be the end of earth and if you are saved the begining of heaven.