If we continue as we did until now, we're doomed in several different ways at the same time. Fortunately, as I'm trying to make known, we are not alone and thanks to the greatest men behind history and evolution of humanity we will overcome these growing pains. And in further centuries we will create the most brilliant civilization ever seen, very different from this one and based on justice and global brotherhood. There is already much of benevolent activity going on around the world, the forces for and against the change of global disorder are roughly equal and the side of life and change will eventually succeed. We have the power to save ourselves and the principles of that are well known and simple indeed. We will survive, though it will surely be close.

 I say no. I think we will be spreading out into space though.

I will confirm that humans are indeed DOOMED.... to be human...

A fate far worse than death...

The question is: can nukes wipe out the human race?

I say no, because our leaders are smarter than that. I'm sure the first nuclear holocaust will happen as soon as the next nuke is launched, now that everyone has nukes we can't simply recreate the Hiroshima bombing without dire consequences. But the thing is; we're so terrified of a domino effect that we won't launch nukes, but maybe some other country might start the train going in the future (cough... North Korea). Now we also need to keep this in mind; I highly doubt we'll aimlessly launch nukes like mindless ogres yelling "AMERICA ANGRY!! AMERICA SMASH!!" Even Bush wasn't that stupid. We'll likely target nuclear arsenals within enemy countries to stop the charade.

But now this brings up another question: what new weapons will arrive in the future?

Well, chances are that in the future we'll successfully find a way to develop anti-matter bombs which are 100% more effective than nukes. Anti-matter is definitely something to fear, let me put it this way; I live in Massachusetts, if I were made of anti-matter, I and the ground under me would be entirely converted into energy causing an explosion that would probably be felt in Illinois, more or less. Although we can create anti-matter today it costs billions of dollars to do so in small amounts, we probably will be terraforming Mars by the time we can make cheaper anti-matter bombs.

How we think we are different, even as atheists, as any other species is absurd. We will die out, and so to the planet and sun. The difference between theism and atheism is that we accept that there is no magic involved in stating that the ride will end.

WHERE we as atheist do fall into the same trap, which I am pesemistic for humanity in general, is that we still have yet to recognize collectively, as a species, that being the alpha male is our goal. Our problem is as Dawkins rightfully states, is that having that sense of control, while giving us safty in numbers short term, is more often than not the moth mistaking the light bulb for the moonlight.

I am positive that we can overcome this flaw in humans filling in the gaps. The issue is WILL WE. The way things look now, we wont do anything differently than a colony of ants that finds a fertile land and defeats all rival colonies to get to it, not knowing they have settled into a riverbed only to be wiped out by the seasonal rains.

As long as our alpha male status divides us and is always a priority, problem solving wont help our species.

I dunno, I think the fact that the EU exists is proof that humans are able to overcome those instincts at some level.

Have other species traveled to the moon and/or sequenced their genome?  I need to brush up on my natural history...

 Is humanity doomed ? I can only hope so.

D'you really think that? I've had moments where I've thought the planet would be better off with no people at all.

Ah, hell - you're right. Things would be fine without people to screw it up.

Anyway, I guess we're all doomed, one way or another.

It's a fact that the sun produces enough energy to maintain 2 billion people on earth. As you all know, we have 6. The fact that we are so over-populated is probably the reason for our demise. Plus the fact that religious groups firmly believe that it's god's will for us to be fruitful and multiply. This is not helping things at all. We're getting very crowded and if we don't do something about this soon, then we will surely perish. Almost all of our problems can be traced back to over-population. There are more people alive now than has ever died in all of our recorded history. That's an astonishing fact and one that needs our immediate attention.. I very much think that nothing will ever be done to counter this because of the religious community feeling that it's their god-given right to have as many children as they can.

One thing we all need to consider is that if we survive long enough to spread to other planets and become a type two or even type three civilization, we'll be by far more advanced than we are today. Today we hardly know anything, yet our technology is progressively growing more advanced. Today we have peripherals to allow us to control our computers at home with our minds, for not knowing much that's pretty good don't you think? Anyway what I'm saying is that progressively we'll grow more advanced, as will we adapt to our surroundings in other environments. In the distant future, we will perhaps discover ways to intertwine parallel universe and cross over to other realities in which our universe has not have died. Although this is all highly theoretical my point to get across is that; it is plausible that we may not die with the universe, assuming we don't die earlier.

Now regarding the death of the Earth: the Earth will die in millions, even billions of years most likely when the Sun does, and yes, I know cosmological collisions cause a lot of damage but to demolish the entire Earth it would take one big ass meteor. Plus, we have people every day looking into the cosmos for asteroids we have to fear ahead of time, years before they'd collide into us, and they have found some things we have to fear, but it's all chance and won't be a worry for roughly 30 years. We already have people working on defenses for such predicaments as well.

Now runaway stars is another worry, there's nothing we can do about these, but the chances of such a thing happening is so unlikely you'll probably win the lottery 10 times in a row before it happens.

Now global warming is another worry; well, by the time global warming is causing massive havoc across the entire planet killing everything in sight we'll probably be well into terraforming Mars and perhaps even have small civilizations there.

Now regarding the death of the Sun: the Sun is going to die out in millions of years. And just to give you the jist of how long a millions years is, let me put it this way; the USA is a bit over 200 years old, we went from Puritans on a ship going around yelling "WITCH!" to semi-intelligent people with devices that allow us to fly, be anywhere in the world, be in more than one place, gaze upon the cosmos, and even enter the cosmos. That's 200 years. What will happen in another 200 years? 400? 1,000? 1,000,000? With the progressions since then one can only imagine the possibilities.

Barring the Singularity, every human alive in 2009 will have died by 2140, at the latest. So the current batch faces doom, certainly.

Is that a challenger to replace 2012 as the next "doomsday"?

How horrible!  The death rate is the only thing stopping exponential population growth.

Eventually... Yes I think so. Isn't there like a heat death of the universe... I am pretty sure that will kill off humanity if something else doesn't before that.

It's all a matter of protecting our DNA. When our DNA is damaged small things can happen, or big things, like cancers. If we can protect our DNA we can live forever excluding disasters, and you won't age in a sense either. Age is only a result of damaged DNA, gray hair for example, we only get gray hair because the information in our DNA that knows our hair color is gone therefor we cannot produce eumelanin and phaeomelanin giving off the colors we see. The questions is; How can we protect our DNA? We have to fear all kinds of things like bacteria, radiation, viruses, physical damage, etc.

True, but i personally feel that EXC is coming along faster... ahaha

No no Tapey... see, this is why your still in training

1. Do we want another world war? the answers always YES

2. Never consort with Elves... EVER, Eldar are just space elves, and Dark Eldar being just space elves who like to rape, kill, pillage, and torture... ergo, still elves

3. If you want something right... Do it yourself! We can manage our own population control, without resorting to hiring out, and its cheaper!

4. While i appreciate the effort to inspire mass rape, torture, slaving, and killing... One must never take pleasure in it, for that empowers Slaanesh... its meant to be a Duty, a Duty in the name of Khorne!

Pure logic would say that the planet has never sustained a species in an unchanged form for more than a few million years. Dawkins states that 99.9% of all previous species have gone extinct, and the future does look rather grim for the rest of us: Evolution and refining the gene pool is the only road to go down, but that´s a rather slow process with a species that only reproduces every thirty years. If you look at certain bacteria you´ll find that they rapidly respond to changes in their environment simply by the sheer numbers: Creating an incredible amount of generations and diversities in what is a microsecond in "evolutionary" time. There might, of course, be some sort of animal with a human ancestry surviving up until that day when the sun expands out to our orbital circle and devours us, but that is almost certain to look as different to us in four billion years than we look to our former ancestors four billion years ago. We´ll have to see a few million generations down the line. A huge problem is that we our rate of change is much slower than the rate of change in the environment around us that we create...Which means that if we finally do change one necessary condition for living fast enough, there´s no way we can evolve fast enough to endure it: Meaning fresh air, clean water, a certain temperature corridor, a certain access to different nutrients and so forth. There is just no way that´s gonna hold up in the unforseeable future!

Oh yes: We´re doomed - especially on the statistical level

In relation to the Death Star, why the fighters had wings. Of course there's no lift, no value in flight surfaces. There'd need to be multiple jetlets all over the place. I was watching Starship Troopers the other day and aside from

enjoying the Denise Richards thing (when she wasn't acting) I noticed that during her training flight she came out with the line: "Deploying wings".

Dumb.

Well, X-Wings were quite often employed in atmospheres.
TIE design was more to do with intimidation and cheap production than effectiveness, and TIE fighters were never much more than cover for bombers and interceptors in atmosphere, both of which were more aerodynamic.
Starship troopers...no argument. But at least she's hot. > >

Is humanity(homo sapiens) overrated? I say yes.

Is Our Next (theoretical) Step In Evolution (Homo Superior) overrated? I say no...

I can't see us wiping ourselves out altogether.
I can see our civilisation taking some serious damage, quite possibly a huge amount of deaths, but complete extinction?
That would take quite some doing indeed!!

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