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Extraterrestrial event? (including any kind of event that comes from off world, natural or otherwise)
Climate Change, warming and/or ice age. gradual death of the human race.
Mega Volcano, we die because of lack of sunlight.
huge earthquake that causes major plate tectonics.
some other kind of natural disaster event?
Human intervention, nuclear war, machines take over etc.
Another race becomes dominant/sentient and kills us off.
Global Killer virus (Zombies)
God/biblical vengeance
No one thing will cause the extinction of the human race.
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I'm voting for Mega Volcano!
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Ron Paul becoming president of the USA.
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Meteor strike.
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ACF Trolls stop trolling.
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Volcano(s) or a large Meteor/Asteroid strike is my guess.
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too many fat chicks blocking the sun?
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Earthquake/volcano combo.
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Global killer virus
NOT zombies, zombies is stupid
However, having studied a bit of medicine and microbiology, there are some very nasty viruses in the world. On top of that there are some pretty nasty people that have played with genetics and viruses enough to know how to makes things that kill you dead, spread easily, and completely bypass the human immune system.
Smallpox has probably killed more people than any other disease or war. Supposedly the WHO eradicated it but there is no guarantee some idiot doesn't have a large supply of in a freezer somewhere.
Everyone knows about Ebola and there have been no cases in humans in the US but ....
The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed somewhere between one half and three quarters of a million people in the Unites States alone. One in four people were affected. Some estimates go as high as 100 million people died world wide in a relatively short 2 year span of the relatively simple flu.
What are the chances of some bug or virus out there, somewhere in guano filled cave in South America or Africa, migrating from bat, or a flea, to a bird or a pig and jumping to humans in a strain or mutation never seen before, more virulent, that that travels in the air like smoke, and there is absolutely no defense or vaccine to combat it ...? It's all happened before. It's not science fiction. It could happen again.
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I think enough would survive to repopulate with most of those.
The utterly terrifying ones are extraterrestrial. Right now we are vulnerable to comets and asteroids, but in time I think we can guard ourselves against those. The unimaginable ones though... Massive solar flares, cosmic radiation, black holes. Everything is just dead.
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human intervention
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4 more years of barry ubama
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Meteor strike. I don't think climate change will cause it. We should be in an ice age right now but we are artificially delaying it. I still don't think an ice age would wipe us out, we would just lose a lot we have gained. I think the only climate change that would wipe us out would be if the ocean temps went up enough to release methane to the atmosphere. That could happen, but we can not cause it. Only changing currents due to continental drift would cause that. And I think a meteor strike will take us out first.
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One day I'll get tired of being stuck in traffic due to retards who can't figure out how to merge, and that'll be it for this entire planet.
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If mankind is destroyed before interstellar habitation, it'll be because of a medical problem.
I doubt it'll happen, though.
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I dont think it is going to happen until we use up all the planetary resources. And since this problem will be obvious before total extinction, we will continue. But like mike said, if we figure out how to travel to different places in the universe, it might just never happen. People are too good at surviving
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"Human intervention, nuclear war, machines take over etc."
can't change human nature
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The ancient alien astronauts will return and kill us all.
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Humans are stupid. The end.
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When I die, you all go POOF.....this is all just a dream. MY dream.
Damn, I suck at dreams.
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ACF Trolls stop trolling.
the buildup of methane gas not expended over the internet will cause an explosion that will blow the planet in half
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Extinction? Extinction will only happen with an extraterrestrial event that in effect "destroys" the planet.
Almost any situation that happens on planet, be it biological, geological, or climate will leave some survivors.
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Most definitely a super virus. Our overuse of medicine will result in a disease immune to anything we have.
Granted this may not lead to extinction, but there is always that possibility. More so than extraterrestrial events imo.
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ice age due to asteroid strike or massive volcano
or giant solar flare roasts us
probably top 3 most likely to happen.
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Global killer virus
NOT zombies, zombies is stupid
However, having studied a bit of medicine and microbiology, there are some very nasty viruses in the world. On top of that there are some pretty nasty people that have played with genetics and viruses enough to know how to makes things that kill you dead, spread easily, and completely bypass the human immune system.
Smallpox has probably killed more people than any other disease or war. Supposedly the WHO eradicated it but there is no guarantee some idiot doesn't have a large supply of in a freezer somewhere.
Everyone knows about Ebola and there have been no cases in humans in the US but ....
The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed somewhere between one half and three quarters of a million people in the Unites States alone. One in four people were affected. Some estimates go as high as 100 million people died world wide in a relatively short 2 year span of the relatively simple flu.
What are the chances of some bug or virus out there, somewhere in guano filled cave in South America or Africa, migrating from bat, or a flea, to a bird or a pig and jumping to humans in a strain or mutation never seen before, more virulent, that that travels in the air like smoke, and there is absolutely no defense or vaccine to combat it ...? It's all happened before. It's not science fiction. It could happen again.
My vote is similar, but assumes the release (accidental or deliberate by some nutjob) of a weaponized virus from some lab.
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computers becoming self-aware
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No one thing will cause the extinction of the human race.
There are several events that can, all by themselves, end the human race if they ever happen. A few are even on your list. Science tells us they WILL happen as their chances of occurrence are not zero, the only question is which event will it be. The one event we are 100% positive will end us, if we are still around that is, would be when our sun finally runs out of fusionable material. As it turns into a Red Giant and swells, immense heat and solar winds will blast the surface of the Earth into molten slag until the Sun finally collapses into a White Dwarf. Sadly, our Sun is far too small to go out with the style and panache of a supernova. It would need to be at least 8 times larger to do so.
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Tai-Daishar_MT posted:
Jezza_Belle posted:
No one thing will cause the extinction of the human race.
There are several events that can, all by themselves, end the human race if they ever happen. A few are even on your list. Science tells us they WILL happen as their chances of occurrence are not zero, the only question is which event will it be. The one event we are 100% positive will end us, if we are still around that is, would be when our sun finally runs out of fusionable material. As it turns into a Red Giant and swells, immense heat and solar winds will blast the surface of the Earth into molten slag until the Sun finally collapses into a White Dwarf. Sadly, our Sun is far too small to go out with the style and panache of a supernova. It would need to be at least 8 times larger to do so.
Supposedly in about a billion years the temp of the planet will be so that the water starts to evaporate, 4 billion before the sun goes all red giant on us. Point is, the sun is getting hotter, so we don't have to wait for it to consume us before it ends us.
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Its gonna be a surprise. 
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No idea, the amount of things that can wipe us out is high.
What I do know is that I don't care much. When I die, as far as I am concerned, humanity is extinct. I wont care. If I do care, it will be because my awareness somehow goes on in some spiritual form, in which case humanity can not become extinct, ever.
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Republican warmongering. Since they are to stupid to believe that humans are in fact having negative effects on the environment I am positive they think nuclear war is survivable.
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I'm putting my money on "Mass Effect 7 will release and inadvertently turn the entire world population gay. Breeding will stop and the human race will simply wither and die with a generation".
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For total extinction I think it will probably be some type of climate change or astronomical event.
In the meantime, I think some virus/bacteria/fungus or combination will eventually cut our population down drastically.
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4 more years of barry ubama
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One upping.
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nano-bots / grey goo
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Robots, obviously.
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we already experienced a super volcano explosion at least our ancestors did while being technically human. it didnt wipe us out then what makes people think it would wipe us out now when we have so much more knowledge/tech then they did.
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One we cause ourselves.
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I might kill them all one day.
I could do it too.
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Short of our sun going nova, nothing.
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we already experienced a super volcano explosion at least our ancestors did while being technically human. it didnt wipe us out then what makes people think it would wipe us out now when we have so much more knowledge/tech then they did.
It depends on the super volcano that goes, the caldera in Yellowstone is something like 65 miles across. It could be a global killer, with ash blocking out the sun for years.
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Short of our sun going nova, nothing.
Our sun can not go nova. If you meant supernova, it can't do that either.
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Jezza_Belle posted:
aurther-the-leader posted:
we already experienced a super volcano explosion at least our ancestors did while being technically human. it didnt wipe us out then what makes people think it would wipe us out now when we have so much more knowledge/tech then they did.
It depends on the super volcano that goes, the caldera in Yellowstone is something like 65 miles across. It could be a global killer, with ash blocking out the sun for years.
With nuclear power and grow lights we will still survive.
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Tai-Daishar_MT posted:
Hyperimiator posted:
Short of our sun going nova, nothing.
Our sun can not go nova. If you meant supernova, it can't do that either.
It can go out though, can't it? I'm not sure what the technical term is, but we can lose our sun is some form, right?
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sliyurs posted:
Tai-Daishar_MT posted:
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Short of our sun going nova, nothing.
Our sun can not go nova. If you meant supernova, it can't do that either.
It can go out though, can't it? I'm not sure what the technical term is, but we can lose our sun is some form, right?
Yes, it will burn up in boring fashion in a few billion years
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In fact we will lose our sun eventually. Once it exhausts its hydrogen supply in the core, it will begin swelling as it burns the remaining hydrogen from the layers surrounding the core. It will eventually become a Red Giant at the height of its expansion. At this point it will begin burning helium and eventually eject most of its outer layer and collapse into a White Dwarf.
The good news is we will all be dead before this even starts 
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Jezza_Belle posted:
aurther-the-leader posted:
we already experienced a super volcano explosion at least our ancestors did while being technically human. it didnt wipe us out then what makes people think it would wipe us out now when we have so much more knowledge/tech then they did.
It depends on the super volcano that goes, the caldera in Yellowstone is something like 65 miles across. It could be a global killer, with ash blocking out the sun for years.
the one that popped early in human time was bigger then yellow stone by most estimates.
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Interesting. You think the sun will just burn out like a light? I think it will swell up tremendously and cook the first few planets. And while most of the large meteors have collected with other celestial bodies, there are enough rogues out there right now. And we have some passing our path quite often. Don't think we will miss them until the sun burns out. Eventually one will get us. And while some life may survive, evolution will be in full swing.
Our species is so good at adapting the environment that we have remained unchanged for thousands of years. But if the need arises it will certainly kick in again. And who knows where that may lead us. If something cataclysmic did happen we would have isolated pockets of humanity throughout the world and given enough time we would once again have several varieties of humans. Scientist for far too long have tried to line them up in some sort of descending order. I just don't think it works that way. It's like a species of fish getting stuck in separate watersheds....you end up with 2 changed and different species
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I think if we avoid a major bolide impact for the next 50 years we will become advanced enough to be able to deflect or just steer one away perhaps. I mean think of how far we have come since einstein already and now we are just learning more and more all the time. hell i cant even find good info in most science documentaries that are over 10 years old because the fields are progressing so fast. that said if we knocked ourselves technologically backwards by say a mass war/nuke war or just recovering from a super volcano something that already taxed the human race to its max but just wasnt quite enough to get rid of us. then a second such event could likely wipe us out. IE nuclear winter followed 40 years later by a massive commit. earth already went through a phase where it was completely covered by ice so it could theoretically happen again. I do believe at this point it would take an extinction event unparalleled in earths documented history to wipe us out at this point. we have people in every habitat on land and we own each one. should it come down to it we would rape every last ounce of salvageable material to survive and do it from everywhere humans are which at this point is everywhere.
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With the world going on the Rhino horn standard we will quickly realize that we are running out of Rhino horns, a huge war will ensue to gain control of the Rhino horn market. Congo trying to protect their vast Rhino horn wealth will purchase nuclear weapons from the Soviets in return for some horns. While trying to protect their reserves of Rhino they will start a war with South Africa driving the entire world into nuclear war.
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