__Bonk__
Posts:
53,947
Registered:
Jul 25, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 53,339
User ID: 1,364,654
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
 
-----signature-----
I keep my eyes fixed on the sun!
A change in feeling is a change in destiny.
|
|
Link to this post
|
paulg_68
Posts:
30,961
Registered:
Jul 27, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 30,669
User ID: 1,364,918
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
Genetically modified post-humans.
And humanity won't go extinct. They'll keep a few of us around in the zoo.
-----signature-----
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc "Everyone has a chance to become rich." - Groucho48 "Most of the human wealth on earth exists between the ears of live human beings." - theredkay1
|
|
Link to this post
|
Onslaught.
Title: I've always wanted a title.
Posts:
56,272
Registered:
Feb 13, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 55,112
User ID: 68,094
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
Hard to say. At this point, if humanity goes, we're set to take a bunch of other species down with us...
Then again, that's usually the tale of any extinction even that takes out the entirety of the most advanced, widespread life form.
ugh.. I've got my contacts out and my typos are even worse than usual as a result.
-----signature-----
"Mmmmrmmrrrmrrmrmrrrrmrmrrmrmrmrrmrr"
-GinsuWife
|
|
Link to this post
|
RHWarrior
Posts:
5,026
Registered:
Sep 30, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 5,021
User ID: 1,372,077
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
-----signature-----
"Drink coffee - do stupids things faster with more energy! ...and I'm all out of beans..." -me
"You guys need to stop dick riding wow and compare everything to it. It never invented a godamn thing, just made it popular. " -tinkly
|
|
Link to this post
|
NuEM
Posts:
15,394
Registered:
Mar 2, '04
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 13,662
User ID: 900,449
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
|
Google
-----signature-----
|
|
Link to this post
|
sweeny_comodore
Posts:
9,066
Registered:
Aug 23, '07
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 8,113
User ID: 1,248,480
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
|
skynet
-----signature-----
Jesus? No, but there is indeed a god shaped hole in the heart of man, why is yours so empty? -- snarf igraine the original monotheism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus
|
|
Link to this post
|
Urk_VN
Title: Orderly Randomizer
Posts:
8,320
Registered:
Oct 30, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 7,922
User ID: 733,088
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
On a realistic note, most likely chimpanzees. They're pretty similar to us in many ways, and should humanity not be around to impede them, they'll most likely form civilization similar to ours (or not).
On a less realistic one,
sweeny_comodore posted:
skynet
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
Typhis1
Title: Raging Alcoholic?
Posts:
11,413
Registered:
Dec 24, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 11,006
User ID: 751,737
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
paulg_68 posted:
Genetically modified post-humans.
And humanity won't go extinct. They'll keep a few of us around in the zoo.
We'll make great pets!
-----signature-----
Since light travels faster than sound, People appear bright until you hear them speak. - Anonymous For any food lovers try out the site below! http://www.thehungrymouse.com/home
|
|
Link to this post
|
__Bonk__
Posts:
53,947
Registered:
Jul 25, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 53,339
User ID: 1,364,654
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
|
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpkmtweNQ-U
-----signature-----
I keep my eyes fixed on the sun!
A change in feeling is a change in destiny.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Typhis1
Title: Raging Alcoholic?
Posts:
11,413
Registered:
Dec 24, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 11,006
User ID: 751,737
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
|
The Goa'uld!
-----signature-----
Since light travels faster than sound, People appear bright until you hear them speak. - Anonymous For any food lovers try out the site below! http://www.thehungrymouse.com/home
|
|
Link to this post
|
Aerlinthian
Posts:
66,222
Registered:
May 7, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 65,491
User ID: 94,919
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
Typhis1 posted:
The Goa'uld!
Our extinction would not be to their benefit..
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
Modeeb
Title: A Ghost In The Machine
Posts:
47,242
Registered:
Apr 19, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 39,997
User ID: 670,238
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
|
cyborgs
-----signature-----
"What is here is there. What is not here is nowhere." Vishvasara Tantra
"Ever tried, Ever Failed. No matter. Try Again.
Fail Again. Fail Better. Samuel Beckett
|
|
Link to this post
|
silvadel2
Posts:
4,970
Registered:
Jul 13, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 4,970
User ID: 57,980
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
|
Not enough time -- by the time such life evolved intelligence, the earth would become uninhabitable. We are it. There are no more chances if we have a dinosaur moment.
-----signature-----
Lost postcount 17k; Lost years 9.6; Lost Title: Priceless
The most expensive things in life are free
Asheron's Call 3 // Horizons 2 -- Dragons of Dereth (one can always hope)
1920x1200 is a Monitor. 1920x1080 is a TV without a tuner.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Koneg
Title: Evil Genius
Posts:
31,388
Registered:
Dec 4, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 28,579
User ID: 530,943
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
silvadel2 posted:
Not enough time -- by the time such life evolved intelligence, the earth would become uninhabitable.
Uh - whut?
The Earth has a few billion years left to it - and it only took ~350,000 to go from Australopithecus to Human so... what the hell have you been smoking?
The idea that bees or bugs will be next is also ludicrous. They haven't the body mass to do it and unless the planet devolves to the point where oxygen levels get to about quadruple what they are now they never will.
Probably some species of primate.
-----signature-----
* First rule of a gun fight: Have a gun.
|
"Any sufficiently advanced idiocy is
indistinguishable from trolling." -- Arthur C Clarke
|
|
Link to this post
|
__Bonk__
Posts:
53,947
Registered:
Jul 25, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 53,339
User ID: 1,364,654
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
ha what a joke. Humanity evolved in just three million years from lower animals. The earth has a couple BILLION years left in it before the sun goes red giant
A couple of BILLION years.
-----signature-----
I keep my eyes fixed on the sun!
A change in feeling is a change in destiny.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Moe_Nox
Title: In Moe We Trust
Posts:
22,319
Registered:
Feb 4, '07
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 19,181
User ID: 1,203,840
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
RHWarrior posted:
-----signature-----
The Nanny State cometh Currency should be bacon cheeseburgers and blow jobs... - Reese Life at the Outpost: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1771556
|
|
Link to this post
|
Mastara
Posts:
8,982
Registered:
Dec 29, '04
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 8,312
User ID: 1,011,569
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
|
roaches
-----signature-----
Boooooommmm Heeeaaaddddshhhhooooottttt! http://www.carellaross.com/img/truth_its_the_new_hate_speech.jpg Mastatheimposta - 10L2 SB Merlin
|
|
Link to this post
|
silvadel2
Posts:
4,970
Registered:
Jul 13, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 4,970
User ID: 57,980
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
|
Life will not be possible LONG before 3 billion years. Large scale organized life, even sooner.
-----signature-----
Lost postcount 17k; Lost years 9.6; Lost Title: Priceless
The most expensive things in life are free
Asheron's Call 3 // Horizons 2 -- Dragons of Dereth (one can always hope)
1920x1200 is a Monitor. 1920x1080 is a TV without a tuner.
|
|
Link to this post
|
__Bonk__
Posts:
53,947
Registered:
Jul 25, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 53,339
User ID: 1,364,654
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
Not true. Life will be possible for another two billion years at the very least. In two or three billion years conditions here will be so hot and radioactive that perhaps life will be extinquished.
In that amount of time civilizations like ours could rise or fall multiple times from basically nothing
-----signature-----
I keep my eyes fixed on the sun!
A change in feeling is a change in destiny.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Allstarslacker
Posts:
9,760
Registered:
May 23, '06
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 9,653
User ID: 1,140,793
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
I think man's greatest legacy will be the created intelligence we leave behind.
I do not think we will ever leave this planet as a species, but I do think we have a good chance of creating an intelligence capable of traveling out into space and possibly seeding life on distant planets.
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
__Bonk__
Posts:
53,947
Registered:
Jul 25, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 53,339
User ID: 1,364,654
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
I agree. I wonder if machine intelligence will be our legacy was a species. I wonder if machine intelligence is the dominent species out there in the universe. It surely is superior in many ways and not limited like traditional species.
-----signature-----
I keep my eyes fixed on the sun!
A change in feeling is a change in destiny.
|
|
Link to this post
|
eodoll
Posts:
17,153
Registered:
Feb 14, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 15,943
User ID: 645,592
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
|
Robots - virus and bacteria are also always evolving, they will be here forever
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
Urk_VN
Title: Orderly Randomizer
Posts:
8,320
Registered:
Oct 30, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 7,922
User ID: 733,088
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
I watched a documentary a while back where they mentioned the sun was going to get hotter as it ages, prior to becoming a red giant, which means it may get hotter on Earth as well. Whether life can adapt or not I suppose depends on how quickly it changes. I'd hope that humanity's descendents by that point would have figured out how to get off the planet and explore/colonize other planets by that point.
The sun isn't expected to become a red giant for about another 5 billion years, but something is expected to happen way before that. The Milk Way Galaxy is supposed to collide/merge with the Andromeda Galaxy in 2-3 billion years, so I wonder what would happen.
At best, the solar system may not be affected much, but the Earth could be thrown out of the Sun's orbit by a passing star/planet. A black hole, star or even gas giant from Andromeda may swallow up the Earth/Sun, or Earth gets hit with a Gamma Ray Burst, so there goes all life on Earth, from roaches to humanity's descendents.
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
Caoilin
Title: Instigator
Posts:
56,728
Registered:
Nov 20, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 54,027
User ID: 513,313
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
|
crocodiles survived all the previous extinction events so i'm gonna vote for them.
-----signature-----
"Cao is really an asexual cricket from outer space" - Bernion
"I just wish you had man bits" - ShalisR
"i'll be your dirty ignorant redneck if you will be my drugged out cripple bitch" - shaggynuts24
"again, I'm stupid" - Brandun
|
|
Link to this post
|
kedz20xx
Title: Entertained
Posts:
9,072
Registered:
May 7, '08
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 9,020
User ID: 1,295,340
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
|
The Bonk clan will survive and prosper, moving from their huts to stalk females in the Forest of Eharmony.
-----signature-----
I piss excellence.
|
|
Link to this post
|
ineenia
Posts:
5,191
Registered:
Nov 1, '05
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 4,871
User ID: 1,090,042
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
-----signature-----
If their stupidity didn't shelter them from the full shame of their actions,their would be alot more republican suicides.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Corky_Aloof
Posts:
10,689
Registered:
Jun 2, '04
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 8,854
User ID: 929,737
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
-----signature-----
> 
|
|
Link to this post
|
Afio
Title: Belle of the Bull
Posts:
22,285
Registered:
Mar 19, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 19,957
User ID: 659,266
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
Moe_Nox posted:
RHWarrior posted:
-----signature-----
I'm not old, I'm crunchy.
IMHO: "You know your poop,Lyndrek"
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." - Ronald E. Osborn
I stole the above from Bonk's facebook, thanks.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Rikarus
Title: Ultimate Badass
Posts:
25,608
Registered:
Feb 24, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 19,041
User ID: 649,730
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
tant these guys!
-----signature-----
"But we are all that way: when we know a thing we have only scorn for other people who don't happen to know it." Clemmens
|
"Skinny would let his fists do the fisting." RonMexico
|
"/Pwning is serious business" Illy
|
|
Link to this post
|
Sgian_Dubh
Posts:
10,339
Registered:
Apr 7, '03
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 10,142
User ID: 788,270
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
Industrialized civilization was a one-shot deal for this planet.
If (or when) homo sapiens sapiens bites the bullet, another sentient species may arise, but will never reach the same technological level that we have today.
It's sad, really, all this potential and we waste it on meaningless ideology and the pursuit of selfish pleasures.
-----signature-----
"You'll rue the day you crossed me Trebek!"
|
|
Link to this post
|
__Bonk__
Posts:
53,947
Registered:
Jul 25, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 53,339
User ID: 1,364,654
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
BS civilizations will rise and fall for possibly millions of years or more on this planet.
-----signature-----
I keep my eyes fixed on the sun!
A change in feeling is a change in destiny.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Sgian_Dubh
Posts:
10,339
Registered:
Apr 7, '03
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 10,142
User ID: 788,270
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
__Bonk__ posted:
BS civilizations will rise and fall for possibly millions of years or more on this planet.
How are those civilizations going to power themselves through industrialization?
-----signature-----
"You'll rue the day you crossed me Trebek!"
|
|
Link to this post
|
the_great_intex
Title: This is what cool looks like
Posts:
30,622
Registered:
Jun 27, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 27,363
User ID: 692,453
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
-----signature-----
Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity
The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure
Time Circuits... On. Flux Capacitor.... fluxxing.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Allstarslacker
Posts:
9,760
Registered:
May 23, '06
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 9,653
User ID: 1,140,793
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
Our planet is very old, and could possibly give birth to new life for billions of years to come.
We might not be the first advanced civilization on this planet. This may not even be the first time humanity has risen.
There is a lot we don't know.
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
NuEM
Posts:
15,394
Registered:
Mar 2, '04
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 13,662
User ID: 900,449
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
Sgian_Dubh posted:
__Bonk__ posted:
BS civilizations will rise and fall for possibly millions of years or more on this planet.
How are those civilizations going to power themselves through industrialization?
All those resources we "used up" aren't really gone. In fact much of it is floating through the ocean right now.
-----signature-----
|
|
Link to this post
|
Lyndrek
Title: Moderator
Lynx Mod
Posts:
36,955
Registered:
Nov 22, '99
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 34,000
User ID: 5,632
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
not only that, but they could stick with wood burning steam, go to electric without having fossil fuel. burn lots of trees. Fossil fuels just made it easier, Doesn't make it impossible to do it without.
hell our power-plants for the most part use steam to power turbines.
-----signature-----
Moderator
I am not a Dev!
|
|
Link to this post
|
Thugoneous
Title: Watching Caliente, BRB.
Posts:
6,060
Registered:
Nov 2, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 5,795
User ID: 734,292
|
Subject:
What Species will Ascend when Humanity Goes Extinct?
|
|
Witches or warlocks who ever wins the shadow war.
-----signature-----
Lady, people aren't chocolates. D'you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
|
|
Link to this post
|
