The End of the World!

[Captain Maxx Power]

Of course not. The planet's not going anywhere soon. However, we as a species certainly are.

[Renmiri]

There are a lot of things that could end life on earth, ours and of most mammals and birds, etc... Some things would "just" wipe out most of the human population: Violent solar flares. A comet impact. Global warming above 15 degrees per year. A nuclear winter. A giant volcano explosion (or chain of volcanos). A plague.... Earthquakes along a fault - think 2004 tsunami x 100. End of Oil, causing famine and economy collapse and wars.

But then again, no one on previous centuries had any guarantees of living all their life without a catastrophe. And very few cultures lasted long without wars and stagnation.

So in the end, why stress about it ? What will come will come when he / she / it / luck / fate wills it to come. Eat, live love and be merry till it comes. What else can you do ?

[Tofu Rocket]

No... but death by gamma ray burst would be interesting. Kinds like Sephi's Supernova... a visualization.
YouTube - Nasa pictures reveal deadly black hole

[G13]

Haven't you learned anything from comic books? We'd just turn into a civilization of Hulks.

[NorthernChaosGod]

That'd be amazing.

[RedPouch]

What a deadful and depressing topic...

There are a lot of things that could end life on earth, ours and of most mammals and birds, etc... Some things would "just" wipe out most of the human population: Violent solar flares. A comet impact. Global warming above 15 degrees per year. A nuclear winter. A giant volcano explosion (or chain of volcanos). A plague.... Earthquakes along a fault - think 2004 tsunami x 100. End of Oil, causing famine and economy collapse and wars.

This stuff is scary to think about for some of us though. For someone like me, thinking that this stuff is likely to happen in my lifetime makes me worry tremendously about the future and what will happen to me and those close to me during that time. I have a gnawing sensation that humanity will end through one of these catastrophes in the next hundred years or so. Technological evolution has opened many new doors, but has also caused many severe problems, some irreversible, others not likely to be reversed due to how reliant people have become on technology. Add this to how people in modern societies have become, and it seems even worse.

I don't have high hopes for our future...
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[Tofu Rocket]

Haven't you learned anything from comic books? We'd just turn into a civilization of Hulks.

That would be a plus, I never could open a tightly closed jar of sickly sweet pickles. Although I doubt I would survive 524949614432 points worth of damage in order to get that ability on my enemy materia. You must have forgotten that Sephi uses l33t hax

[Renmiri]

There's nothing you can do but live your life the best you can. Make the people you love happy. Be kind to strangers. Live each day in a way you will remember fondly. Try to make the world a better place for the people around you. And for you.

If something bad happens, those fond happy memories will mean a lot to you and your loved ones. Will help you endure whatever it is that is coming.

If nothing bad happens, your happy memories will be part of a good life.

Win- win IMHO

[Psychotic]

I hope so.

Yes! Look back six hundred or so years, with feudalism and castles and whatnot, and look at how advanced we are compared to those ignorant medieval swines. The people of 2600 will look at us with similar contempt, to say nothing of the people of 3600, or the people of 10600. Hell, imagine the people of 100600!

We must be the last and greatest generation of humans. Humanity simply cannot be allowed to progress because I refuse to be inferior to poncy future people in their shiny silver suits and hovercars.

[Jiro]

I'm sure if we work hard enough then we can blow up the planet. I'm with Paul - if I can't have my goddamn ray guns then nobody can.

[Rye]

Nah, man. It's going to be fine.

[Psychotic]

Don't worry, Jiro, I have a plan, assuming the internet is around forever.

Hey, future people? I slept with your great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandmother. And she bellowed like a wildebeest. Whatcha gonna do about it? Build a time machine and come back here and kick our asses? Ha, yeah right, I think evolution has caused you to lose your balls.

(SPOILER)Hopefully they will be so enraged that they'll come back to 2010 to murder us all, and will materialise any second to zap us all into oblivion. They will then cease to exist and we'll be victorious! And dead. But mostly victorious. I'm also counting on the fact that the knowledge of how to read spoiler tags will be lost to future generations.

[Rye]

Wildebeest~

[G13]

I'm sure if we work hard enough then we can blow up the planet.

I've got a few ideas for this. Anyone who's interested meet me in the breakroom. We have brownies and punch and some snickerdoodle's Sharon made.

[Cuchulainn]

Alaska can come too.

you know the score.