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Post by Vegas on Jan 22, 2018 2:43:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2018 3:09:44 GMT
We become great pets.  |
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Post by Catman on Jan 22, 2018 3:56:42 GMT
All the answers are in the Futurama episode 'The Late Phillip J. Fry' which aired on July 29, 2010.
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Post by johnblutarsky on Jan 22, 2018 20:25:13 GMT
All the answers are in the Futurama episode 'The Late Phillip J. Fry' which aired on July 29, 2010. Oh, man. Now I have to build a time machine to go back and watch the episode (involving a main character who fell into a time machine). |
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Post by Vegas on Jan 22, 2018 23:13:00 GMT
All the answers are in the Futurama episode 'The Late Phillip J. Fry' which aired on July 29, 2010. I almost linked a video of that as my answer.  |
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Post by thefleetsin on Jan 23, 2018 16:36:38 GMT
mankind will loosen its lip-lock around the tailpipe of the internal combustion engine and find something else to suck on. regardless of what fast and furious fans may think.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 4:51:10 GMT
Eventually go extinct. The most popular consensus amongst scientists at the moment seems to be that we're going to be enslaved and/or killed by Artificial Intelligence gods of our own making, which have gotten out of control.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Feb 6, 2018 5:27:11 GMT
Eventually go extinct. The most popular consensus amongst scientists at the moment seems to be that we're going to be enslaved and/or killed by Artificial Intelligence gods of our own making, which have gotten out of control. Definitely a possibility. Or we lose the war against antibiotic resistance. Natural events wiped out the dinosaurs. Humans haven't existed all that long given the age of the planet. We (humans in general) just think that it's all about us. Edit: Or we go with the H.G. Wells model of the time machine - www.imdb.com/title/tt0054387/?ref_=nv_sr_2and turn into morlocks and eloi...  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 5:40:31 GMT
Eventually go extinct. The most popular consensus amongst scientists at the moment seems to be that we're going to be enslaved and/or killed by Artificial Intelligence gods of our own making, which have gotten out of control. Definitely a possibility. Or we lose the war against antibiotic resistance. Natural events wiped out the dinosaurs. Humans haven't existed all that long given the age of the planet. We (humans in general) just think that it's all about us. I think that scientists are on a verge of a breakthrough with regards to antinbiotic resistance, based on some of the things that I've been reading. |
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Feb 6, 2018 5:59:38 GMT
Definitely a possibility. Or we lose the war against antibiotic resistance. Natural events wiped out the dinosaurs. Humans haven't existed all that long given the age of the planet. We (humans in general) just think that it's all about us. I think that scientists are on a verge of a breakthrough with regards to antinbiotic resistance, based on some of the things that I've been reading. What have you been reading, seriously? I have an in-depth interest in infectious disease, wish that I had chosen to study biology and gotten a job at the CDC in Atlanta. I'm always looking for stuff to read about the evolution of drug-resistant antigens... Link? Titles and authors? |
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Feb 6, 2018 11:52:38 GMT
Assuming no god exists, we're doomed and way sooner than the earth blowing up.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 13:04:23 GMT
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Post by theoncomingstorm on Feb 6, 2018 15:15:28 GMT
I was researching this. It's some interesting stuff.
In a few billion years, the Sun is going to grow into a red giant, and the gravitational pull of the Sun will bring in Mercury and Venus burning them to nothing. The Earth may get pulled in or continue to orbit with an extremely high surface temperature.
This doesn't necessarily mean the death of humankind though. Theoretically, by that time, we could have the technology to send the Earth soaring through space until it reaches a new sun (it's possible to survive without a sun for a couple thousand years because the Earth is hot at the core), or we could have space colonies, or other solutions to save us.
What do you think is going to happen in the distant future for humankind?  How would the sun's gravitational pull increase if it increases in volume but not mass? When the sun goes nova it will increase in volume to take in the orbit of Mercury and possibly Venus. However, unless something changes the sun's mass it's gravitational pull will remain the same and the other planets will remain in their orbits, only warmer. |
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Feb 6, 2018 18:32:07 GMT
Wow, thanks for the links! I haven't kept up with my reading for the last year - no time - and the fact that they have altered Vancomycin, that has long been the 'last line of defense', to a more effective form is amazing! Time for me to start hitting the science journals again. I wonder what they've come up with for Level 4 biohazard viruses. I still think humanity will go extinct from a pathogen. I really thought that last outbreak of Ebola could have turned into a pandemic. |
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Post by cupcakes on Feb 6, 2018 19:01:29 GMT
tpfkar Eventually go extinct. The most popular consensus amongst scientists at the moment seems to be that we're going to be enslaved and/or killed by Artificial Intelligence gods of our own making, which have gotten out of control. What's your evidence for this "consensus"?
Can neuroscience understand Donkey Kong? |
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Post by johnblutarsky on Feb 6, 2018 20:51:56 GMT
In a few billion years, the Sun is going to grow into a red giant, and the gravitational pull of the Sun will bring in Mercury and Venus burning them to nothing. The Earth may get pulled in or continue to orbit with an extremely high surface temperature.
I missed this during my first read. theoncomingstorm is correct. The Sun will expand and engulf the inner planets. I'm pretty sure the Sun will not "pull" the inner planets, like you suggest. Either way, life as we know it on Earth should be long gone. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 23:07:13 GMT
tpfkar Eventually go extinct. The most popular consensus amongst scientists at the moment seems to be that we're going to be enslaved and/or killed by Artificial Intelligence gods of our own making, which have gotten out of control. What's your evidence for this "consensus"?
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Post by cupcakes on Feb 6, 2018 23:09:32 GMT
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Post by thorshairspray on Feb 7, 2018 3:12:04 GMT
Wee prefer to say "peoplekind"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2018 3:20:21 GMT
What do you think is going to happen in the distant future for humankind? Extremely likely, we will be extinct within a million years. Very likely much less. I like to hope we'll avoid that, but I don't think so. I take comfort from the idea that rather than dying out as such, humanity may well wind up evolving into something that isn't human. So there will be no more humankind... but there will be our successors. Much as the dinosaurs evolved into birds. |
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Like what's at the core of the bulk of your "arguments".