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Will humans ever be extinct?

  • Will humans ever become extinct, just like the dinosaurs did. And if humans do become extinct, will other life forms exist. I'm wondering this because, back then, dinosaurs ruled the world, they became extinct, and now humans rule the world. ...Can this keep going?

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    This feels to be a highly philosophical question beyond answering it on an empirical basis- which is not to say it can't be answered on a basis of logic and understanding. Calculations abound can predict our ultimate demise and as I'm about to say, many people have made hypotheses of such events. Of course, there are plenty of natural disasters and events that can threaten our imminent removal from existence; many of which are the same theories that people had for the dinosaurs themselves, such as the giant meteor, subsequent food shortage, immense volcanic activities, etc. One of the things to keep in mind is how different we are from the creatures that reigned during their era. No other living being has ascended to our level of intelligence so far, such as the fact that I am typing this here. The logistics of a computer are purely mind boggling. A velociraptor is coined as having immense intelligence for its age as a predator, but was merely an animal. Now, with that in mind, it's hard to say for sure if we will or will not become extinct in the future. It's obvious to say that it's a possibility, like in the ways mentioned above; or if we won't through shear technological advances that protect us from things that seem impossible. Science and astronomy tells us that our universe is continually "decaying." Suns are born from immense planets like Jupiter receiving more and more material and "igniting" to spheres of energy, they grow old and large, and eventually explode. I recall an article stating that, in the event of a "local" case of this happening, with our Sol, the sun would swell up, turn red, and burn the life off our planet with intense heat and radiation. However, cases of these kinds of events (suns exploding, planets going super nova, neighbor galaxies colliding with our's) are so immense in size that we couldn't wrap our minds around it even if we tried, and take so very much time to actually occur that we wouldn't see the affect of it for millions, possibly billions of years. Somewhat more realistic causes of our apocolypse turn gaze on human conflict and nuclear war. Such controversy has shead away some since the closing of the Cold War, yet nuclear weapons still exist and some nations are continuing to boast about their ownership and possible testing of them. Many fictional renditions of the world after such an event as nuclear war has gone over have risen out of the Red Scare era and are still being made today. They are just that: fiction. But for what it's worth, some of them depict accurately the possible difficulties society will face if a decline back into an old era of mankind would present to us. Tribal and feudalism, etc. Now, to answer the latter part of the question on whether other life forms will continue on living, such could be possible. This is with the exception that the event that killed us off did not destroy the environment behind us. Perhaps, the next creature to "replace" us in terms of some sense of dominance would not be as intelligent, immediately, but there would be a chance that intelligent life would return, again, after some several million years. The only possible thing that could wipe us out completely would have to be a massive disaster, however. Ecologically speaking, we are at the safest place in the "food pyramid." With us being omnivorous, we have a large pool of energy to draw from and have been well away at cultivating more of it (food energy) in case of shortage. Few, if any, other creatures in this world actually raise livestock or farm. As part of a basis of species becoming endangered, take a look stastically at which animals are usually on the endangered list or have gone extinct: they are usually top-tier predators. This is because of the literally tiny pool of energy they have to draw from and how wasteful energy consumption is within the animal kingdom. By the time the energy from the sun has traveled down the "food chain," first to plants (which have a -terribly- bad rate at which they "consume" the energy from the sun), then to the herbivores, then the carnivores, then the next carnivores, and so on-- it's been consumed, wasted, and expired while hunting several times over until it reaches them. Most species of animals die out, in this sense, due to starvation. Humans have no fear of this becoming a concern, besides in the most poverty stricken areas of the world.

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No I believe its not going to happen We humans are wise enough to protect our race we will never extinct we might loose many peoples in some natural revolutions but we will never extinct because we know how to survive natural revolutions are the main reason of extinctions In thnext 100 years we are sure that there will be no important natural revolutions and in the next 100 years we have the ability to control anything even the sun right now NASA have very amazing ways to stop revolutions and natural problems like global warming that you wont believe it remember WE ARE HUMAN , WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE

Kasrart

There is ony two ways that I think of of there being no more humans 1. We stop haveing sex with echothet but some thing tells me that this is not going to happen or 2. The Americans fire a nukeler rockets at russa and the russans do the same to the Americans

Humans are very widespread on the Earth, and live in communities which (whilst interconnected) are capable of some kind of basic survival in isolation. Therefore, pandemic and deliberate killing aside, to achieve human extinction, the entire planet would have to be rendered uninhabitable. This would typically be during a mass extinction event, a precedent of which exists in the Permian–Triassic extinction event among other examples. In the near future, one anthropogenic extinction scenario exists: global nuclear annihilation; and two possible natural ones: bolide impact and large scale volcanism or other catastrophic climate change. Both natural causes have occurred repeatedly in the geologic past and there is no reason to consider them unlikely in the future. As technology develops, there is a possibility that humans may be deliberately destroyed by the actions of a rogue state or individual in a form of global suicide attack, but this is balanced by the possibility that technological advancement may resolve or prevent potential extinction scenarios. Another scenario is the emergence of a pandemic of such virulence and infectiousness that very few humans survive the disease. While not actually a human extinction event, this may leave only very small, very scattered human populations that would then evolve in isolation. It is important to differentiate between human extinction and the extinction of life on Earth. Of possible extinction events, only a pandemic is selective enough to eliminate humanity while leaving the rest of complex life on earth relatively unscathed.

Soorena

Nothing lasts forever. Eventually, something is bound to happen. It might be tomorrow. It might be in 20 years. It might be in 50 million years. It might be in 500 billion years. But eventually the universe will either collapse or be consumed by dark matter, or everything will sit inside a black hole. This really depends on wether the universe is infinite or not. But I think your mind set is that we are going to remain on this planet which is completely false. In one scenario, we die on this planet, wether by meteor, disease, or nuclear war. In another scenario, we leave Earth, either because we want to or because we wouldn't survive much longer on Earth. In this case we would live on a spaceship or colonize on a planet or moon, weather it's our moon, Mars, or a very distant planet. If we are smart we would spread out on different planets to increase our species chances of survival. We may gain ET allies along the way. This would also create many different species of humans as we live in different environments and as we evolve. But as I said before, the universe will end eventually and so our species will end.

MathMan101

A news article about 3 months ago mentioned the views of a prominent scientist, they did not name him. Anyhow the theory is this....Technological evolution advances far more rapidly than biological evolution. Advanced civilizations in the Universe eventually create highly intelligent machines, robots & androids, cyborgs. The machines eventually can repair themselves, produce improved models of themselves, making them immortal. Mankind is fragile compared to these machines. Eventually the machines replace mankind. The UFOs we see are most likely manned by such androids or robots, immortal , able to travel vast distances & able to withstand the extreme g-forces involved. ( They were originally created by some distant civilization on some other planet , very likely extinct now) So, I believe if man is around long enough, his machines will replace him.

Paraiba Blue

I sure hope so. If they never go extinct, every individual's accomplishments and existence will become infinitely non-important eventually.

nothingness

Yes but that will be millions and millions of years from now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_extinction

pat m

at the rate they are going they will become extinct in time using up all the resources and multiplying to fast other animals that are left may be will survive but not humans unless they change there ways.

doakpersoncat

This probably will keep going. either global warming will kill us, or our species will adapt. (EVOLUTION!!) (:

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