Switch Posted September 9, 2003 Share Posted September 9, 2003 yep... hey! maybe thats why god made so many planets. he knew we'd screw em all so we'd need a lot of backups :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltiraaz Posted September 9, 2003 Share Posted September 9, 2003 that depends on whether we can survive the next few hundred years without blowing ourselves up, or making our planet uninhabitable. Really, really good point. The whole in the ozone is growing so rapidly it scares me to think about it, (not kidding, it actually frightens me :ph34r: ) but I do try and conserve energy where I can, just to help put my mind at ease. :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddGuy Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 im being completely honest here; I think we'll end up just like the Dwarves in Morrowind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marxist ßastard Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 That'd require Lorkhan... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thanateros Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 Well, eventually our existence will fade, when is the real question and under what circumstances. Certainly if we keep progressing as we have been our fate will be sealed much soon than I would like; I think it a waste of creation for humans to so carelessly rape the earth they were put on to use as their home. I believe we could learn a lot about how to survive in a more primitive environment by looking at the millions of other species who have survived without populating exponentially and have ascertained a remarkable equilibrium with their surroundings. What scares me the most is how we justify accelerating our demise. People argue that because of population growth we need more cities to hold them and we need to cut down more rain forest so cattle can graze. Admitedly I am a huge fan of eating meat, but when you look at the energy lost from cow to human it's astonishing. 90% of the energy consumed by a cow is lost when a human eats its meat, so with all of the grass that the cattle grazed on only 10% actaully gets converted into energy we as humans can use. If we became more agrarian that 90% would go straight to us, but food is just a minor point of a big picture with a lot of different factors. As a race and species, humans must, in unison, recognize and address major problems that threaten the population. At the top of my list would have to be our population; face it, at the rate we reproduce and with no natural predators keeping our population in check we're headed for a massive famine. That's a little of what I feel on the subject, I'd be happy to explain it more but to do so would end up in a 10 page post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 My opinion? WWIII and we're all a giant glass crater before 2050! But seriously, I doubt anything short of destroying the planet will ever truly erase humanity. Yes, we can make life an absolute hell, but something will remain, and rebuild. And the odds of asteroid or sun explosion death are so small and far away that we'll probably have expanded to other worlds long before it happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesaynothin Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 Either we kill orselves in a large nuke-war, or we day on the sixth day of the sixth month on year 6... that means we are dead.. huh? Wow, I'm dead! I can fly!!! *jumps off a cliff and breaks a leg* seriously, I think we are going to kill ourselves. then some satlellite will come back a year after we're all dead with a foolproof plan sent to us by aliens for peace. happy story, huh <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switch Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 well, destroy ourselves with nukes, IMHO, wont happen, unless utter lunatics get hold of some nukes and decide 2 go on a killing spree IMHO most likely i think what will happen is the pollution will eventually make the earth uninhabitable, like i said in my previous post. what with america who refuse to cut down on emissions as much as everyone else is planning to, and all the other stuff going on, i reckon the planet wont last til 2103 :P us however, if we're lucky, will have built technology 2 go 2 other planets by then (if theres any out there that are inhabitable without having 2 use terraforming). tho if we havent learnt a lesson from what happened 2 earth we'd prolly just end up going on a planet killing spree <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiel Posted September 13, 2003 Share Posted September 13, 2003 Oddguy has a good point. Imagine if some we destoyed ourselves very quickly with a terrible new invention or something and then millenia later a medieval like society explored our strange otherworldly skyscrapers and cities, hmm spooky, you can imagine them thinking we had been struck down for the same reason as the Dwarves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltiraaz Posted September 13, 2003 Share Posted September 13, 2003 So many movies have been made to that tune... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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