Why do some believe Humanity will go extinct eventually?

Because what begins, ends and what ends, begins. It is all part of the great circle of life/death.

 

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The universe can't sustain life indefinitely, as eventually every star will cease fusing its fuel and the universe will go dark and cold. In the Dark Era everything in the universe, from mankind to supermassive black holes will have been converted into photons and leptons.

Besides, think of the math...suppose there is a 1 in 1 million chance of humanity going extinct in a given year. Assuming that, there is only a tiny statistical chance that we will survive 10 million years (and a 99.995% chance that we will be extinct by then). As long as the probability of extinction is greater than zero on any given time frame, then in the fullness of time, our extinction becomes a mathematical certainty.

The only thing that can save us is divine intervention.

 

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No, God has already warned that there will be an end to it.

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Like death, extinction is a certainty.

 

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Warned ? So what can we do ? Surely nothing..
Is he that sadistic ?

 

We use up everything. We use more energy and natural resources than any other specie, thats for sure. I mean jeez, all a dog wants to do is eat, take a dump somewhere, and move on.

 

And even dogs are a drain.

 

Yes, I even said that eventually we will go extinct. But I think that will be when the universe begins to just run out of fuel, just go dark and dim and dead.


Because, in truth, conciousness and intelligence is more powerful than nature. Humanity's saving grace is that we can know, interpret, understand, and plan and take action. Nature is random. Other animals cannot.


With this, I believe that ultimately with greater scientific understanding, and our species spreading out, we should be able to last quite a long time.

 

That math is incorrect. The chance would be 1/1million every year. It would not become 2/1million in the second year. It'd be a 1/1million chance EVERY year with exactly that chance (assuming we use it), not growing any larger.

 

nuclear ICBMS.

 

Right now there are people preparing to change our DNA. If this becomes popular at a certain point homo sapians will not be around precisely because it can know and take action.

 

I'm sorry, that's what I meant. I may have been wrong in presuming that the gamma-ray burst would occur when it went nova?

We have yet to see this be the case. Our primitive ancestors overcame bigger problems than we have faced.

I think our best hope for long-term survival is to be very, very lucky. No amount of planning is going to save us from an Earth-killing asteroid, or a gamma ray burst. And I highly doubt we'll be able to get far enough away from the sun to avoid its death. I mean, I suppose it's possible, but it's not very plausible. And if we were somehow able to climb aboard a ship headed to the nearest star, you'd then have to hope that nothing went wrong on the trip.

So like I said, there are too many variables to hope for a long-term future for any species, at least in the time frames you're speaking of.

 

Not Homosapiens in general but our entire Human race, our species, regardles sof what it evolves into.

Our line of evolution included.

 

Even if we evolve into monkeys ?

Humans right now may be more closely related to monkeys then to genetically engineered persons.

 

if we evolve into frogs, we will not know of ourselves enough to change any major outcomes of future

 

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I wonder what percentage would choose to be frogs? Even if it's .000001 at the current 6 billion that's 6000 homo frogus.

 

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Too late. What if we evolve into the ultimate couch potatoes, brains in a vat, robots doing the work, and computers stimulating our pleasure centers all day long.

Actually I think this is already the case, it's just we aren't very good at it yet. I am not sure that qualifies as a species.

 

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What scientific name would you give the couch potato humans ?