How long until the destruction of the human race?

How long until the destruction of the human race, if ever?

The way I see it, with technology getting more and more advanced, and the ideas of mankind getting more and more radical, our destruction is inevitable.  How long do we really have until we kill ourselves off?  How long until an atom bomb is invented that is small enough to fit in your pocket (a terrorist\'s dream)?  How long until a bomb is invented (discovered?) with so much destructive force that it could incinerate our earth in the blink of an eye?  Or for things we don\'t have control over...How long until aliens from space come down and take over our planet?  How long until that great and dreadful day of the coming of our Lord?  How long until earth is hit with an enormous meteor killing everything (as many scientists say, it\'s not if we get hit by a meteor, but when)?  How long until our Sun gets too large to live under, or does some unexpected and deadly thing?

Or is our destruction really inevitable?  Is the human race destined to die, or will we always find ways to survive?

Make sure to post your response so if that day does come, we can look back on this and see who was right.

As long as it happens when I\'m dead, imagine living with that?

well the sun is expected to go into a red giant stage in 2 billion years (I think), then our galaxy will collide with andramoda.  So I would say at the most we got 2 billion.  But I believe the human race will be gone long before that, so I\'de guess we have anouth 150 years, they way were going currently.

A good reason not to have children...

i think we have till 2050. i dont want to sound pesimistic but with the way things are going with this planet our destruction is inevitable.

good job of not being too pessimistic
just inevitable destruction, no biggie

Soon.. Next week probably? Yea right.

I dunno, WTF do I look like Nostradomus? I do know that mankind as we know it will not live to see the next millenium tho. You don\'t have to be psycic to figure that one out.. we\'re just predictable.

If we have lasted this long, whats to say we can\'t last this long again?

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Yeah, we\'ve been around since the dinosaurs.  We rule!!!

By the time Ive finished typing this post.

Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
If we have lasted this long, whats to say we can\'t last this long again?

Because in the thousands of years up until now people couldn\'t hurt more than a few other people at a time... now we can nuke eachother or perhaps shoot off some Ebola virus. I\'ll give mankind another 100 years tops - unless we somehow evolve very quickly and get WAY more intelligent than right now - and thus sees the light in living peacefully...

Not sure.... but it starts tomorrow.

I give us well more than until 2500.  I\'d say its thousands upon thousands of years before we even get close to becoming extinct as a species.

You say that our technology advancing is a bad thing, but I see it as a good thing.  We realize already the deadly weaponry that has been created, and are moving to correct that.  Research on bigger and more powerful bombs has decreased dramatically, and we are working on spending billions on missile defense systems.  

Overall though, I don\'t think there are enough people who want to see the human race end for it to ever happen.  There are people willing to give their own life for a cause, but I don\'t know that there are too many who would want to give everyones life for one.  That would just be pointless and stupid.  We have survived thousands upon thousands of years already, and I think we have come to the point where we will be able to survive thousands upon  thousands more, even under the worst of circumstances.  If people began to nuke places, there would be areas designed to house people safely in such conditions.

And besides, how many nukes you think it would take to kill everyone in the world?  There are enough to kill a ton of people now, but with how people could take shelter from the radiation, I don\'t think we have enough to kill everyone in the world.

And I also think that it may be less likely than ever that we will be whiped out.  The way we control the world, we would never let another species evolve to become the dominant one.  Our progress in areas like space travel will only lead to a greater and greater chance of our survival.

As for aliens, why do we assume that they will want to kill us all?  They would almost certainly be friendly.  Otherwise, it is hard to advance as far as they would need to in order to get here.  Besides, it may not even be possible to travel that far.

And as for the apocalypse or any other religious theory...I don\'t buy any of that stuff.

I give us many thousands of years at the very least.  I clicked other, because I didn\'t think after 2500 accurately represented that belief.  Maybe if it were after 25000, I would have clicked it.

Besides, Time is all relative anyway.  If we ever are able to travel up to the speed of light, there could really be no limit.

december 22-23, 2013....... I mean the mayan calendar can\'t be wrong.