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Do you think human race will make it to the 41st milenia
If no how long do you think we got?

Yeah. We have intelligence to keep our species alive.
Unlike the dinosaurs.

yep.

Nope.

yes

No, the end is nigh.

(by nigh I mean in the next few ten thousand years.)

I'm pretty sure we won't make it past 2012. That film was a documentary sent from an alternative universe.

garret wrote:Yeah. We have intelligence to keep our species alive.
Unlike the dinosaurs.

A Texas sized asteroid impacting the surface won't really care how intelligent we are. I would like to think we will make it that far but some things are way beyond our capabilities to control.

The dinosaurs did survive - they evolved into creatures that are wildly different, but they survived.

I think something similar will happen with humans. People get that technology is advancing very quickly, but they don't realise that rate of advance is getting faster and faster. The extent that technology changes our lives and begins to change us is only going to increase. The humanity that lives in the year 40,000 may be unrecognisable to us.


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Ahtman wrote:A Texas sized asteroid impacting the surface won't really care how intelligent we are. I would like to think we will make it that far but some things are way beyond our capabilities to control.

There's around 700,000 objects in the solar system that can cause a catastophic impact, which the boffins say gives about a 1 in 5,000 chance of an impact in the next century. So in the next 40,000 years you're looking at 400/5000 chance of a catastrophic impact - and given the rate of development how many more centuries will need to pass before improved detection and space capabilities make asteroids a removeable threat.

Possibly,


Humans are pretty nifty at surviving and adapting, the problem is that our activities and actions in helping us survive are encouraging and possibly speeding up our own demise, we have put ourselves at the top of the food chain but are more than ever susceptible to minor changes in circumstance.

CadianXV wrote:I'm pretty sure we won't make it past 2012. That film was a documentary sent from an alternative universe.

well then if that is the case I am hanging out with John Cusack foreverz.

Jesus said we would live forever.

People live on in each other's hearts.

The titanic song says my heart wil go on.

Some people will become ghosts and thus linger on forever, does that count?

Ahtman wrote:

garret wrote:Yeah. We have intelligence to keep our species alive.
Unlike the dinosaurs.

A Texas sized asteroid impacting the surface won't really care how intelligent we are. I would like to think we will make it that far but some things are way beyond our capabilities to control.

A Texas sized asteroid impacting...in Texas?



Frazzled won't be amused.

Quite frankly, we deserve to die before then. That, however, can be interpretated in two ways;

One, that we are horrible creatures destroying our planet, therefore deserving to die.

Or Two, we are a kind, loving species who should not have to fight an endless horde of heretics and Xenos.

I don't care how you see it, just my opinion.

Short anwser: No.

Long anweser: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

I give us about 10 to 25 years before all hell breaks loose.

More importantly, will we be around long enough to discover why kids love cinnamon toast crunch?

I don't think we'll still be around, but by then the internet will have achieved sentience and spread across the galaxy, preserving our essence in the form of memes and lolcats.

The Dreadnote wrote:I don't think we'll still be around, but by then the internet will have achieved sentience and spread across the galaxy, preserving our essence in the form of memes and lolcats.

I can just see an Alien race, basing their perceptions on us from 4chan.

So long as we have invented flying cars, I think the human race can face extinction happy.

It will be exactly like 40K, but humans will have evolved into Squats.

Khornholio wrote:It will be exactly like 40K, but humans will have evolved into Squats.

Oh dear, we all know what happens to Squats. Best start working on really effective bug spray.

There is good chance that we will survive,but if a meteor strikes the planet before we have a technology to stop it then yes we are scre***.

sexiest_hero wrote:Jesus said we would live forever.

People live on in each other's hearts.

The titanic song says my heart wil go on.

Some people will become ghosts and thus linger on forever, does that count?

"Will we survive" assumes that we are like a ship on a rough sea, at the mercy of fate. But we are not at the mercy of the material universe. Matter proceeds from spirit, which was there first. Spirit therefore governs matter; that is why there is a God. So don't worry, we'll be fine, our lives are a lot weirder than you might imagine.

If we can make it far enough so that we have the aforementioned flying cars AND no more names, only numbers, then we'll have to consider that a job well done, and anything after that is just gravy.

Once the bees die out, we're screwed. So no, we won't survive another 1000 years, let alone to the 41st millenium.

The Dreadnote wrote:I don't think we'll still be around, but by then the internet will have achieved sentience and spread across the galaxy, preserving our essence in the form of memes and lolcats.

So, we'll become the Therians from AT-43? I could actually see it happening.

Alright, people, let's get working on those Dyson Spheres, pronto!

I believe no, though it will not be our own doing, some natural occurance and we just happened to be in the way.

Meteor...

Space Dinosaurs...

You know, just something that we could not stop.

Nah. Were gonna have 3 winters in a row that freeze the earth and then giant wolves are gonna come out and kill us all.

By the year 40,000 humans will have abandoned their biological bodies and transcended into mechanised form meaning we can survive in deep space and thus, live forever. Of course the downside is we lose 99% of the thinks which make us human. But hey, can't have everything.

If we do, the 41st Millennium won't be full of Spayse Mayreenz and Emprah Churches. Mostly due to the fact that the ghost of GW would rise from the grave and send a C&D letter to the entire human race.