What will eventually end mankind?

[The Vinyl Ripper]

What with all the super cheerful threads here I thought I would inject a little more levity..

What are your thoughts, I have more exotic ones but heres's a few to start with.

Biosphere collapse after oceanic die off mid century?

Asteroid impact?

Deliberate asteroid impact?

Genetic experiment gone unexpectedly awry?

Nuclear war?

Bio war?

Eventually the sun will turn red giant and everything out to Mars will be history.

Jesus comes back, who gets what? "Jesus is coming, and boy is he seriously upset".

[blogslut]

1. Short answer

Mankind will end mankind. The planet will go on without us until the sun goes supernova.

[kdmorris]

7. Dangit.. I was gonna say that!!!

Thought thief!!! :bounce:

[blogslut]

10. ...

:hi:

[defendandprotect]

48. Correction to short answer . . ..

Mankind will end mankind -- via Global Warming/pollution.

and the planet will not go on without us --

Our destruction is so thorough that it looks like we'll be talking down this beautiful blue planet.

It will not keep turning and there will be no way for nature, animal life to recover here.

[laylah]

72. Great minds think alike! n/t

[wildhorses]

2. some kid will walk by and say --

'wonder what this button does?' :shrug:

and

BOOM :nuke:

there goes the world...

up in smoke.

the end.

:smoke:

[Middle finga]

3. Alien invasion from out of space

[Middle finga]

5. Another presidency from the Bush family

[The Vinyl Ripper]

8. The Predator from silence stalks hypothesis, eh?

[LiberalAndProud]

4. Apathy ... and I don't care.

[scorpiogirl]

6. Greed and stupidity.

Whatever form those may take.

[shanti]

41. my choice as well

greed takes food from the mouth of another....

"hungry man is an angry man" - bob marley

[HeeBGBz]

58. That's my choice also

A lethal mix.

[Philosoraptor]

9. Driving while texting.

[The Vinyl Ripper]

15. That's just Darwin doing his usual thing..

And the slow ones who don't avoid the texters are all part of Darwin's grand plan too..

[AngryAmish]

11. Chuck Norris

[SayWhatYo]

46. hahaha :D score!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

12. Robert Frost explained it for me

Fire and Ice

Some say the world with end in fire
Some say in ice
From what I've tasted of desire,
I go with those who favor fire
But if it had to perish twice
I'd say that hate is also great
And will suffice

(from memory, so not all words may be correct)

[donsu]

13. the neo cons

nt

[Solon]

14. The real question is, what will be the last words of the last person on Earth at that time?

"Hey guys, watch this!"

[Posteritatis]

30. That'd be the last words of the first last person, no? (nt)

[TahitiNut]

16. Womankind

:hide:

[donsu]

21. yes, we won't be able to reproduce

sperm will not be viable, it's starting to be iffy now.

(and why would we want to bring an infant into a poisoned earth)

[Redneck Socialist]

26. Dang, you beat me to it.

I didn't read all the responses before I posted. Ya gots ta get up pretty early around these here parts if'n youse wanna be clever. x(

[TahitiNut]

34. I sure know what you mean.

Hundreds of us wannabe comics sitting in the branches like buzzards just waiting for a straight line. Swoop!
:silly:

[AZBlue]

44. Nope.

We'll be the savior.
;)

[pscot]

17. we're likely to choke on our own waste

and eventually may be sooner than we think.

[Journeyman]

18. A Tralfamadorian test pilot presses a starter button. . .

experimenting with new fuels for their flying saucers, and poof! -- the whole Universe disappears.


It's only Earthling conceit, and science fiction, that has you enthralled with the ferocity and might of our spectacular weaponry (and colossal stupidity).

[LiberalEsto]

19. Cow flatulence

the Moo of Doom

[krispos42]

20. It is doubtful mankind will end

Civilization may collapse for any number of reasons. Global warming. Nuclear winter. Superflu. Asteroidal or cometary impact. Housing market dissolves. US defaults on $9 trillion dollars of debt. Mega solar flare.

But there will always be a few humans left to start over.

Only the largest events will be able to sterilize the planet and kill ALL the humans, along with just about everything else. All other events would leave a few million or a few hundred thousand survivors to come back.

[The Vinyl Ripper]

56. Chicxulub did the dinosaurs in..

And they had been around *way* longer than humans have..

[YellowRubberDuckie]

22. Mankind.

Honestly, we're a parasite. This world is going to be here long after we have been wiped from the face of the planet.
Duckie

[AZBlue]

43. Took the word right out of my mouth.

[Donnachaidh]

23. mega-religions

And their knuckleheaded followers.

[Redneck Socialist]

24. Womenkind probably

:evilgrin:

Humanity will destroy the environment, then tear itself apart in increasingly violent wars for control of ever diminishing resources. Eventually some super virus will wipe out the few pitiful survivors.

Cheery 'eh?

On Edit: Damn, tahitinut beat me to the snark. :-(

[SayWhatYo]

50. gotta be quick...

[mudesi]

25. Global warming (nm)

[Forkboy]

27. Porn threads.

[SidDithers]

28. Religious Holy War...nt

Sid

[Posteritatis]

29. Mankind itself, *or* the heat death. (nt)

[blues90]

31. Stupidity , lies , ignorence and greed will end mankind .

[Jed Dilligan]

32. Evolution nt

[warren pease]

33. Hatred, stupidity, short-term thinking, greed, lust for power, and...

American Idol. In no particular order.


wp

[baldguy]

35. If we get ourselves off the planet, never.

[The Vinyl Ripper]

57. That's looking less and less likely though..

[Warren DeMontague]

61. According to who?

Seems to me compared to where things sat 30,000 years ago, it's infinitely MORE likely.

[WillyT]

36. Gay Teletubbies

That and Global Warming.

:shrug:

[krispos42]

38. No no no, the Teletubbies just took out the American Nuclear Family

Now Elmo, I think he has plans going on in his little furry head!

[SayWhatYo]

47. gay spongebob too.

[krispos42]

37. Vogons

I read it the the five-volume "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" trilogy

[Jamastiene]

39. Mankind. n/t

[HughMoran]

40. I'm gonna go with mankind kills mankind, or an asteroid

:shrug:

[Faux pas]

42. Chinese imports. n/t

[slowry]

45. David Morse n/t

[SayWhatYo]

49. reality tv

seriously, aliens are going to pick it up on their satellites someday, and feel sorry for us and end our misery.

[Beerboy]

51. Human manipulation of a homo sapiens sapiens bug.

The end and the extinction of humanity will be a result of warfare and terrorism, for sure.

[madeline_con]

52. Extinction due to unsustainable population growth. eom

[Hobarticus]

53. Ted Nugent. nt

[lutefisk]

54. A man called "Junior". . . the one with the reverse Midas touch

...and the power to destroy life on planet Earth.

These times are far more frightening than the era of mutually assured destruction. Junior and Dick are behaving like there is no tomorrow...
:scared: :nuke:

[Beausoir]

55. Space. The universe. n/t

[Beerboy]

59. If disco 1975-78 isn't the key to everlasting doom,

then I'm out of ideas. So close...:evilgrin:

[Warren DeMontague]

60. Nothing. Eventually we will develop the technology to go back in time and create ourselves.

Intelligent Design!

[sam sarrha]

63. you have to see the movie ..ZARDOZ.. it is cheap at ...Link>

http://search.deepdiscount.com/search?w=zardoz&af=cat1_dvds

one of my top 10 movies... i was just going to go there and buy 'Medallion' ... my #1 movie, when my wife saw it she cried, she finally understood me...

[ldf]

67. zardoz

sean connery at his absolute hunkiest!!!

and to at least SEEM like i'm paying attention in class....

any war will probably leave a handful of humans somewhere. of course the nuclear winter may be a real bitch.

but our corporate masters, in an effort to wring maximum profit out of minimal investment, will create, then accidentally release THE super bug. carried on the winds, no one will be safe.

OR

religous fundamentalists of all stripes will gain the upper hand, and god will smite it's planet like a love bug smashing against the windshield of a luxury sedan, speeding across paynes prarie on I-75, during a hot summer florida day...

mankind will end mankind. we destroy a lot more efficiently than we create.

[sam sarrha]

68. that is why the Buddhists call this ... Samsara ..link>

http://www.buddhanet.net

[sam sarrha]

62. Jeb Bu$h get elected in 2008.... kiss you ass goodbye

[Deja Q]

64. Some astronomers have claimed an asteroid WILL hit in 2036...

Or was it 2032? Either way, roughly 30 years, we'll just launch Bruce Willis and his big bomb into the stratosphere and that'll take care of it.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

65. Doesn't the Mayan calendar end in 2012?

I have to go with asteroid. Although I would think a little cluster of hardy individuals somewhere might survive. Hopefully not people of my ilk - my husband jokes that if all humankind were as mechanically adept as I am, we MIGHT just be getting to the wheel about now.

[IDemo]

66. Peak oil should take care of ~80%, and climate change....?

Humans are like cockroaches, there will always be a hardy band here and there regardless of what happens.

Now, about that Yellowstone super volcano,,,

[MilesColtrane]

69. Complete Extinction?

There will be an extinction level asteroid or comet impact at some point on Earth, and Bruce Willis probably won't be around to save us.

There's also going to be viruses that could destroy most, but still leave a few humans around.

Barring those things, and the attendant collapse of technilogical advancement, I'd have to go with Grey Goo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo

[Le Taz Hot]

70. Please see my sig. line.

n/t

[undeterred]

71. The internets- the tubes will get clogged and no one will be able to flush.

[lonestarnot]

73. But we will still be able to sweep.

First the heat, then the sores, thirst, hunger, disease, famine, and war but the earth will not end.

[JanMichael]

74. These guys:

[Lorien]

75. Climate change within the next 30-50 years.

this includes famine, drought, war, social unrest, weather disasters, etc.