The forever [not] world?.

The answer comes into 2 situations in my mind....


Yes: We still exist as a spieces but are either in huge crisis due to over population or starvation; or are spread out through other planets in a huge population. What is past that is uncertain.

No: We screw up big time and ironicly end up destroying are selves due to nuclear means or dieseas capible of killing a person within a matter of weeks (We can do that all ready easily. Polio anyone?) or what have you.
 
Assuming all these doomsday theories are false (excluding the sun going boom), the human race has the potential to exist for an incredibly long period of time after I pass on. The human race may evolve and the species we knew in our lifetimes will be non-existent.

We may have the technology (epic technological wipe out pl0x?) by the time the sun goes boom, if we even survive to then, this is under the assumption we find a way to make more resources such as water etc. We might destroy ourselves with over population or an intense war. There's no way to know for sure what's happening, but we have 'potential' to live until the next minute (big crunch anyone?) to an extended time after, be that hundreds, thousands, millions etc...
 
LEXAcide said:
I think we will live until that year. And I am sure that by then, we would have figured out how to travel at nearly light speed.
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We won't need to. They'll probably be working on making wormholes and actually "teleporting" in a sense by bending space, because travel at the speed of light as far as I know is impossible. Buuutt, I'm probably wrong *waits for somebody to quote me as incorrect*.

Yeah, I think humans have the potential to last that long though. Hopefully it's not too politically correct or anything and doesn't end up like the book 1984 by George Orwell with people having no privacy and having everything controlled by their government or something. I don't think any wars will do anything bad, I mean what are the chances of a Hitler or something turning up again, most of the world has learned from that stuff. That, and many more people by the day are becoming atheist, which hopefully means less war seeing most wars are sparked by religious beliefs.

But yeah, humans will expand off Earth soon. Maybe not for a couple of hundred years or maybe longer, but it'll happen soon. We'll be gone long before the sun explodes/grows/whatever.
 
Assuming we don't blow up or kill the planet with our stupidity, it'll be around for millions of years.

And like others have said, by the time the sun explodes, our technology would've advanced so far we'd probably be on another planet.
 
ポケモントレーナージャック said:
From what I've studied, I've concluded that the Sun will grow in mass in about 5.5 billion years. By then, it will probably have "swallowed" the Earth and all us humans will die.




It is true that out of all the armies in the world, there are plenty of weapons to destroy every living place on Earth, but I don't think anyone would try to do that.
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Obviously, you're not following world matters because it's obvious people would. :x
 
here is an interesting thought.

I believe that evolution keeps on happening. Evolution is Physical, obviously, and mental too (i would assume). What if we, year by year, grow dumber and dumber until we become no more inelegant than chimpanzee's? I am pretty sure that would eliminate the thought of space travel, wouldn't it? Planet of the apes xD
 
t.A.T.u said:

Obviously, you're not following world matters because it's obvious people would. :x
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Oh, I must've missed the news broadcast when they announced WWIII was imminent.
LEXAcide said:
I believe that evolution keeps on happening. Evolution is Physical, obviously, and mental too (i would assume). What if we, year by year, grow dumber and dumber until we become no more inelegant than chimpanzee's? I am pretty sure that would eliminate the thought of space travel, wouldn't it? Planet of the apes xD
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Evolution: A gradual process of development, formation, or growth, esp. one leading to a more advanced or complex form.
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Yeah, I don't think humanity is going to start devolving either.
 
t.A.T.u said:

Obviously, you're not following world matters because it's obvious people would. :x
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I doubt it. We've had two world wars. Having both of them was a mistake of epic proportions. We've seen what the power of nuclear bombs can do. The leaders of countries can use the threat that they'll use them if so-and-so doesn't stop doing this and so-and-so doesn't stop doing that, but nobody is actually going to use them. It'd cause too much devastation to possibly comprehend. Exploding a nuclear bomb will have repercussions, and it won't just be the country that exploded it that'll be punished. It'll be the entire earth. History is there so we can learn from our mistakes and move on. While we have some fairly incompetent leaders as it stands, they aren't stupid enough to do something like that. And if they are, someone will stop them. As for terrorist groups? Not big enough to wipe out the entire population on our planet.

What does interest me though is nanotechnology. That's a force to be reckoned with.
 
Vendak said:
If you're talking about wars, I doubt humanity is stupid enough...
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*ChoughYesWeAreCough* Think of religion. Some crazed lunatic or group of crazed lunatics decide to wipe out all nonbelievers. They think that the nonbelievers will suffer a fate worse than hell, which is what they deserve, according to the crazy people. They develop a weapon of cataclysmic destruction, and they believe that if they die killing everyone else, they will become gods (Been playing too much halo. XD).

Yes. we will survive to the year 3000. Unless said lunatics get too much power. XD
 
LEXAcide said:
with evolution, there is usually a give-and-take.
Where'as we might become dumber, we could become stronger.
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No, evolution is the process of advancing into a better form. Humanity's mentality isn't suddenly going to start deteriating and if by some random miracle it did, then that would be devolution; because no matter how you look at it, if we're getting 'stupider' it doesn't mean we're improving. Even if we turn into giant, mega indestructible robots at the same time.
It's similar to Dinosaurs losing size but acquiring feathers and ability to fly.
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No, that's 2 physical changes.
 
lol, some evidence suggests our species has been around for about 200,000 years, I think we can last another 1000.

I doubt a nuclear war would kill off every human. Depending on which areas are at war, those are the ones that will be devoid of life. Rural places will still be habitable and surely Antarctica.

If anything, we'll evolve into a new species, but that will take a few hundred thousand or million years. We'll be living comfortably on many other planets by then.

WTF? There is no such thing as de-evolving. Species just become adapted to different conditions. If we loose our intelligence, then that will only be because we won't need it. We'd better become a lot stronger and faster though because that's the only thing keeping us on top.
 
Humans will definitely evolve, but not much in a span of 1000 years :p

Humans, along with birds, are possibly the animals most capable of dealing with changes in their enviornment - humans makes tools, and birds fly to a more suitable enviornment. Unless there was a worldwide catastrophe, it would be unlikely that either would die off completely within the next 1000 years.
 
As it's been stated, the world has been around for billions and billions of years. A thousand years from now, sure it may have changed, but it'll still be there. :|
 
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