Refusal to leave the planet We want to stave off extinction . . .we have to start the migration to the stars Rocket River
oh, I thought you meant technological revolutions, don't know why when I re-read it. I think it's going to be possible to provide a Western world level of energy and consumption for at least 4 billion people by renewable means, solar, wind and safer nuclear options. We are going to need to be able to desalinate and move sea water economically though. But meat as we know it will probably not be an option. <div style="background-color:#000000;width:520px;"><div style="padding:4px;"><iframe src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:arc:video:colbertnation.com:1d53302b-af3f-4448-81ca-dedf5013e560" width="512" height="288" frameborder="0"></iframe><p style="text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><b><a href="http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/">The Colbert Report</a></b><br/>Get More: <a href="http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/full-episodes">Colbert Report Full Episodes</a>,<a href="https://www.facebook.com/thecolbertreport">The Colbert Report on Facebook</a>,<a href="http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos">Video Archive</a></p></div></div>
LOL... I assumed that this would be common knowledge by now! Planet X (Nibiru) will bring complete annihilation to planet Earth! But don't worry we still have at least 3yrs before this happens!.... Proof: Spoiler ....... ....... .......
Large asteroids hitting the earth, large enough for a global mass extinction, happen every few hundred million years. This is obviously probability. The last one happened some 65 million years ago which ended the 150 million years of dinosaurs. (I believe those numbers are correct). So, we don't really have to worry about another one like that for quite awhile. In the next couple centuries, we will know if our destruction of the earth will doom us and most living creatures - people born recently might even know why the end of their lifetimes. I'm not saying it's going to happen, but if it does, we will know fairly soon. I don't know if it will end humanity, but our numbers will decline by a monumental fraction.
Globalization will eventually erode and destroy middle class societies across the plant. This will leave 98% of Earth's population poor and uneducated. The other 2% will be educated and immensely rich. The 98% will attack and kill the 2% in a desperate attempt to gain food, wealth, and power/control. This will leave the planet with an entire population of uneducated people who are incapable of maintaining any form of advanced civilization. In a state of anarchy, we (the hungry, uneducated masses) kill each other out of desperation. We will be de-evolved back into creatures of chaos and instinct.
realistically the only one that could really kill off all humans is an asteroid or aliens. A disease might wipe out 99% of the population but 1% will be immune or somehow not contract it. Humans are intelligent enough that they could easily adapt and prolong their existence.
We will be killed off by the artifical intelligence we create. Like in Battlestar Galactica, I Robot, or Her.
Im putting a vote in for a nuclear death. That **** is real son, humanity playing with fire on that ****.
Wouldn't giving high reproductive rate people access to better jobs and food actually raise the population levels? It does in Alief. The asteroid thing is "on average" which in the realm of statistics means it could happen next year or never. But I think the possibility is so catastrophic that it would behoove us to gear our space program to be ready to deal with the event. Global climate change and sea level rise is a more certain event, but it will be a slow motion catastrophe that we can adapt to with a mass migration, Giant tornados and hurricanes and Florida under water won't wipe out. In fact, Austin with a beach would be nice. http://vrstudio.buffalo.edu/~depape/warming/EastCoast100-4800.jpg
