How long before Humans become extinct?

The Time Machine
Soylent Green
Planet of the Apes
Blade Runner
Idiocracy
Jeremiah
Children of Men
The Postman
Water World
The Road
The Expanse

There is a long list of books, TV series, films and film franchises projecting what may come.
 

Interesting to think about but at my age being one of the humans to colonise another planet to propagate life isn't going to happen

I think part of the reason for deep space exploration is because there is a realization that resources on our planet will run out. Or at least dwindle down to the point of survival of the fittest will be the rule of the day.
 

dilettante said:
China's population drops for second year, with record low birth rate
Click to expand...
Didn't the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) institute the one child per couple policy a while back? This was its purpose, to reduce the population. Couple that with capitalist economic prosperity and who wants to have babies? Instead, everyone is having a big party and great time. And, just remember, in China the CCP is ALWAYS right! So there had better be no complainers. Or else!
 
Packerjohn said:
The world is vastly over populated. Look at all the wars going on in the Middle East and toward Pakistan. Remember that there is only limited land. I believe 74% of this planet's surface is water.
Click to expand...
By logic and addition it all adds up this way. But, Malthus did the same and it did not come out as he predicted it would. So maybe simple logic and arithmetic really cannot calculate it as correctly as you may think. You have forgotten the one element that made Malthus wrong - the tendency of humans to think about other ways and dream the impossible. You need to work on an optimistic perspective rather than the simple one you have.
 
We most likely will just slowly go away. Never extinct, just fewer and fewer.
Give it all a break, who wants to compete with the Smiths and Janes?
Make em go away and problems solved. ..... :ROFLMAO: .....
Pharmaceutical's most likely have worked it all out.
Opportunities, which allows advancements are gradually getting sponged off the boards.
We went to the Moon near 65 years ago and struggle still. No rapid rise here.
One battle, one fight, one war after another.
 
Last edited:
hollydolly said:
Now with the very fast introduction of Al in all it's forms I think we're looking at the human population becoming almost extinct in a very short period of time..
Click to expand...
You may be coming from a fundamentally mistaken premise. The human race is not suicidal. Take for example nuclear weapons. As yet we haven't killed ourselves. We've come close. And, there are some pretty scary people running around who could. But, for all of it we haven't nuked ourselves.

Given this I think that AI is just another new invention that some are declaring means the end of mankind as we know it. But, I give you this - when the automobile was invented all the horse drawn wagon makers thought the world was about to end. And, yes THEIR world was about to end. However, THE world did not end and human kind went on and adopted new and still newer things that really rattled a lot of people. But, we are still here.

Old people tend to adopt a doomsday perspective because they know they are near their end. The young are at their beginning filled with energy and optimism as well as faith in themselves. So long as the old are followed by the young the human race will do just fine generation after generation.
 
Unlike when I grew up, 1950s/1960s, humans Worldwide per more recent modeling, will not all die from an all out nuclear war. Most of the southern hemisphere will survive though recent modeling shows 5 billion of we 8 billion may die in the north.

Even the worst genetically designed virus won't kill all those with food supplies in areas able to totally isolate.

Before runaway global warming occurs, humans will die off and suffer too much for that to reach extinction levels.

Natural causes like large bolides or galactic near supernovas are too rare. Long term fatal human genetic changes, given our advanced DNA science would be solved.

That leaves singularity level AI robot scenarios that yes conceivably in a war against humans are about the only possible one that could hunt every last one of us down planet wide. That scenario only works if AI could operate robot factories in countries secretly that I doubt will ever happen because that is so obviously dangerous that humans given little choice, would just totally nuke any region where that arose.

One last scenario is in the distant future, an ability to create some kind of planet wide long half life radiation cobalt bomb or group of bombs that would kill not only all of us but also all advanced life. Then yes some insane person with a finger on such a button could get us all.

So IMO, NO,unlikely within near geologic time of millions of years. Beyond that AI robots may be hard to prevent.

Also note, I doubt humans will in our present biological form ever be able to live for lifetimes beyond our planet elsewhere in the Solar System, much less for generations because our bodies are far too dependent on the Earth despite much science fiction in media otherwise. However a million years into the future, genetically modified humans or hybrid AI/humans may. David
 
Last edited:
I've heard we have 300,000 more years before we go extinct, I'm not saying life will be gone it will just evolve into another form. The sun is due to burn out and go supernova in 5 to 8 billion years from now, the last couple of billion years is supposed to be pretty nasty.

Life will go on in a different form, a billion years is an incredibly long time if we die out we'll never know anyway, if we get off this rock and it's entirely possible who knows what will happen?
 

You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top