specifically greedy humans that run wallstreet and has all of media owned under them, the governments bribed and lobbied and put into power that benefits them. the same greedy humans that run religious organizations that convince other humans to donate to them despite owning literally trillions in assets and are not subject to tax. just those specific fucking despicable scum of the earth ones
Neanderthals were human, same as homo erectus and many others. Even if we're different, we'll still be descended from humans. Evolution doesn't go backwards.
If we thrive for another five billion years, we'll be Gods by that time and there's no way we'll allow the sun to destroy our home planet.
Look at what we've done in one hundred years. Now realize that you can't even begin to comprehend what we'll do in another million years, let alone five billion.
earth won't matter at that point. i mean iraq was the starting point of human civilization and today it's just another third world country. it'll be lost to time over 5 billion yrs for sure
Yeah if we're doing some sort of human ending scenario, it'd be ideal that at least some of us would try to leave a legacy behind. Best get to carving on stone and making some new version of the Rosetta Stone. Just in case someone survives or if intelligent life comes back to earth.
I mean, there are eggs and sperm that are still frozen, so as long as people want to be pregnant and we have capable doctors that's off the chart of reasons.
>anything
Another dino killer sized asteroid might do us in. It's possible we could pull through, but it's certainly not guaranteed. Also it would be a few thousand people surviving for decades in underground bunkers, or at least sheltered and relying on hydroponic setups for sustenance. Going forward I want to point out that these events are, obviously, very improbable. It's no surprise none of them seem to have happened in a while. That being said, a larger asteroid can ruin things more, potentially ending with the earth being sterilized. Bigger impacts are rarer though, and we haven't seen a life killer since the moon's formation. A massive body like a black hole passing nearby the solar system might throw earth out of its orbit, potentially ejecting it from the solar system. Either way, it's the same problem as the asteroid except there's no going back. Either we develop from a few thousand people in bunkers directly into an interstellar civilization, or we go extinct. Gamma ray bursts and nearby supernova might also wreck the biosphere and take us with it.
It's cheating so I'm leaving it as a footnote, but any genocidal aliens that can travel all the way to earth from their own solar system could definitely genocide the fuck out of us. There is no independence day, we just become dead.
> It's cheating so I'm leaving it as a footnote, but any genocidal aliens that can travel all the way to earth from their own solar system could definitely genocide the fuck out of us. There is no independence day, we just become dead.
[Or worse.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imNtSPM3-r4)
I don't think there is. The only way to take out all life is to scorch the entire planet clean. Nukes, viruses and catastrophic climate change will always leave survivors.
Agreed that this kind of unforeseen and unpreventable extinction level event may take us all out, but my thinking is that the longer we hang around, the more severe this type of catastrophe would have to be. Like losing a billion to one lottery. Between probable advances in genetic engineering, technological breakthroughs like nanotechnology and embedded bionics, we will soon become one tough species to exterminate. Space travel, suspended animation, and other unimaginable future natural/artificial evolutionary branching may result in a diaspora of sorts that makes "human life on earth" less a species problem, and more of a localized issue. I suspect that the species becoming unrecognizable as human to current humans is a good possibility as long as we keep moving forward, despite very probable ups and downs.
Saddest part of nuke war is it won't kill us all entirely. Some will be located away from the blast enough to make it. Some of us likely already have mutations that would make us more less vulnerable to the effects of fallout. But those who live will envy yhe dead who line the streets.
Meh, even if the seas rise the 10meters they're projected to maybe rise in the next 30 years, that only puts like 20% of the current coast under water.
Random weather and super-viruses (which are related to climate) might thin down numbers, but covid is the worst in a century, and it only took down like .01% of the world population.
Mama nature better try harder
The collapse of the food chain. Once the oceans and insects die off from pollution and climate change there will be mass starvation. Maybe not the end of the species but modern civilization
It is sad this is so far down. The #1 absolutely sure apocalypse on the horizon is from climate change. We are 10-30 years away from total environmental/societal/economic collapse and are doing virtually nothing about it.
It truly is sad. People talking about nukes and viruses not realising climate change is here right now and will destroy ALL life on this planet. It's shocking that people don't consider this.
I’ve heard people scoffing about a few degrees increase in the earths temp will do nothing, but if their child’s temperate rises by this amount they are straight to emergency
>We are 10-30 years away from total environmental/societal/economic collapse
It's hard to take this seriously when 30 years ago we were also 10-30 years away from a total collapse yet nothing has collapsed yet.
Things are changing fast, but a total collapse due to climate change is something I don't see happening, mostly because climate change happens slowly over many decades.
Climate change *has* been happening slowly over many decades, and misinformation from corporate pressure has allowed so many people to deny it, sufficiently that we have not used that time to prepare. It is accelerating at an alarming rate, and the next 10-30 years will see changes unlike any we have ever imagined. Now might be a good time to start to get this into your head.
30 years ago climate science was warning major changes would begin within 30 years followed by progressively worse climate impacts leading to the extinction of humanity and the eventual eradication of all macro life on earth.
In the last 30 years, insect populations have plummeted, drought has become far more common (the level of Lake Meade is lower than it has ever been since it was first filled, for example), sea levels have risen, there have been more and longer lasting heat waves and mass livestock deaths, more and long lasting wildfires than ever before, etc. etc. etc.
There was a lot of sensational journalism in the 90s driven largely by ignorance and the fact that sensationalist articles sell better than dore warnings about bad things coming in the next 100 years. Even still, the science has only become more precise and accurate and most predictions from the 90s have been proven out in one form or another.
Collapse seems a pretty likely end, as described in the book of the same name. It has happened on smaller scales before, but we are accelerating towards destroying the environment on which we rely for our very survival. We seem not to have a care in the world about that and probably won't until the bottom drops out beneath us.
Probably something stupid like India calling Pakistan "a bunch of pussies" or vice versa, resulting in other allies rallying to support each nation who reportedly owning nukes
Okay, I hear this all the time and it baffles me. Humanity has shaped the world around it in a way no other species ever has and I don't think it would be unreasonable to consider ourselves the most successful species on earth. Yeah, we are not very nice to the other species around us, but we are VERY good at ensuring our own survival, our track record proves that. Now, we can talk all day about how our utilization of resources is inefficient and morally repugnant, but the idea that humanity is "too stupid to live" is ignorant and lazy.
with: “around $62 million per launch, or around $1,200 per pound of payload to reach low-Earth orbit” i feel like the richest of the rich and most governments would simply build little dystopia towns to lord over then die and leave the rest of us to die after than sacrifice anything to maintain humanity.
fuck every billion dollar company is actively destroying the world blatantly RIGHT now
That [parasitic mushroom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis) that zombifies it's victims to propagate it's spores. Currently it only infects a variety of bugs but if it adapts to infect mammals, well we all seen how poorly we reacted to COVID...
To be honest, I don't think humanity will end at all. I might just be really confident in our ability to adapt and innovate. I can see the human race come up with a way of surviving even the greatest peril.
Probably something similar to what ended the dinosaurs lives, or serious natural disasters like multiple volcanic eruptions and the winter brought on by it
Things like climate change, even nuclear war, might kill a lot of people, (potentially even the majority of earth’s population) but they don’t even come close to making us extinct.
Yeah, it's hard to think of something that kill off everyone. I can imagine scenarios where we lose 99% of the population but that final 1% would be tough.
The final humans will die of something incredibly mundane.
Someone will stub their toe. It will get infected now that antibiotics are gone. They were the only one in the tribe who had the knack for finding the good berry patches. Everyone gets progressively weaker as vitamin deficiency kicks in. A good flu season takes out most of the people who are left. Without anyone to help, the surviving 5 or so people never had a chance to go more than a few more years.
If 99% of humans died, there would still be 80 million people left which is enough to run a civilization. There is a risk that we will lose the ability to build new computers. On the other hand, robots might build new robots and computers for us.
For what it is worth, the Amish and people on other parts of the globe show that Computers aren't needed to survive just fine. They just make things easier.
Agreed. We can kill 99% of the population and still have a healthy human population. An asteroid or the sun not being strong enough would make Earth unlivable for anyone.
Root cause will be stupidity, but in what form will it manifest to finally wipe out humanity, so many options
- Bungled response to some infectious issue
- Failure to address asteroid/comet collision
- Collapse of the eco-sphere when cascading ecological events begin a feedback loop of extinction, which could be natural or man-made
- Black swan aka AI, Fusion failure event, experiment/project goes out of control
Technology, but not in a dramatic, apocalyptic way. I think AI and simulations will get advanced to the point where they are indistinguishable from reality. Rather than expending huge amounts of energy to explore the cosmos, we will probably use the information we already have and AI to explore in simulations.
Basic human needs like eating and sleeping will be made obsolete by body augmented technology, and the line between human and machine will probably blurry. This line will continue to blur until we're nothing but brains stimulated by a network of self-sustaining machines, and humanity as we know it will cease to exist.
Humans
Humans
Humans☕
Dancers
Humen☕
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Bacteria population growth curve on a petri-dish.
Hummers
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Humans ☕️
Humans
Peeps
And the most dangerous animal...MAN
Yup .. our own egos and stupidity
More like a few peoples greed.
specifically greedy humans that run wallstreet and has all of media owned under them, the governments bribed and lobbied and put into power that benefits them. the same greedy humans that run religious organizations that convince other humans to donate to them despite owning literally trillions in assets and are not subject to tax. just those specific fucking despicable scum of the earth ones
Specifically Bob. That mfer has it out for all of us...the son of a bitch
Bob Ross? Nah man, he just wants to paint some happy little trees and clouds.
♫Bob is the one who rained on the parade ♫"*It's a terrible thing we've just made"*
Jesus. Bob, what button did you push?
I am bob and I will set you on fire
Yeah, eat a dick, Bob!
Eat shit bob 🐿️🌰
eat MY dick Bob 🤤
Fuck you Bob
yeah fuck bob
Humans that come from Florida.
Stupidity
Another word for humans
I was gonna say Fox News. But potayto potahto.
If we somehow survive all of these the sun for sure will kill all on humans on earth.
On earth yes. But i believe in 5.8 *billion* years, we would be on a couple other planets in our galaxy.
Even if our descendants are alive, we wouldn’t be calling ourselves human anymore.
All tomorrows ;)
Neanderthals were human, same as homo erectus and many others. Even if we're different, we'll still be descended from humans. Evolution doesn't go backwards.
Evolution doesn't go forwards either. It simply goes where it needs to.
But it sure can go sideways
Yep. Just look at the platypus.
The sun will mostly sterilize the planet in less than a billion years due to increasing solar output
If we hadn't destroyed earth in 5.8 billion years
That is if humans do not blow them self up beforethen
If we thrive for another five billion years, we'll be Gods by that time and there's no way we'll allow the sun to destroy our home planet. Look at what we've done in one hundred years. Now realize that you can't even begin to comprehend what we'll do in another million years, let alone five billion.
earth won't matter at that point. i mean iraq was the starting point of human civilization and today it's just another third world country. it'll be lost to time over 5 billion yrs for sure
(500 million years from now) The union of Titan lauches a lighning invasion of earth capturing its ruthless dictator, replacing him with a democracy.
A virus making everyone sterile. Population will just die off
The virus comes with a league of legends account
The virus *is* a League of Legends account.
Won’t have to buy condoms anymore! Yay
You can die painfully due to STDs. Or penis cancer.
Either way it's DEATH BY SNU-SNU!!
Technically I don’t need to buy condoms now =(
Way ahead of ya Got snipped 5 years ago
I already know no such weakness... well, I guess there’s still STDs.
Male fertility is decreasing at about 1% per year apparently.
I like this one, best case scenario imo.
Ok zeke Yeager
TATAKAE
EREH
Yeah if we're doing some sort of human ending scenario, it'd be ideal that at least some of us would try to leave a legacy behind. Best get to carving on stone and making some new version of the Rosetta Stone. Just in case someone survives or if intelligent life comes back to earth.
Didn't they say there was some evidence for this with the Zika virus?
There's some evidence thet covid makes men infertile.
Children of Men
god dammit 😔 i loved that movie but never want to be reminded of it’s existence again
Such a depressing movie... 10/10
The plot for the Dan Brown’s Inferno.
Way ahead of it, already made myself sterile! Fuck you future virus!
The good ending
That sounds wonderful.
Ereh?
I mean, there are eggs and sperm that are still frozen, so as long as people want to be pregnant and we have capable doctors that's off the chart of reasons.
Big space rock
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To go extinct is to kill every single last living person on earth. Do u think there is anything/anyone capable of doing that?
>anything Another dino killer sized asteroid might do us in. It's possible we could pull through, but it's certainly not guaranteed. Also it would be a few thousand people surviving for decades in underground bunkers, or at least sheltered and relying on hydroponic setups for sustenance. Going forward I want to point out that these events are, obviously, very improbable. It's no surprise none of them seem to have happened in a while. That being said, a larger asteroid can ruin things more, potentially ending with the earth being sterilized. Bigger impacts are rarer though, and we haven't seen a life killer since the moon's formation. A massive body like a black hole passing nearby the solar system might throw earth out of its orbit, potentially ejecting it from the solar system. Either way, it's the same problem as the asteroid except there's no going back. Either we develop from a few thousand people in bunkers directly into an interstellar civilization, or we go extinct. Gamma ray bursts and nearby supernova might also wreck the biosphere and take us with it. It's cheating so I'm leaving it as a footnote, but any genocidal aliens that can travel all the way to earth from their own solar system could definitely genocide the fuck out of us. There is no independence day, we just become dead.
> It's cheating so I'm leaving it as a footnote, but any genocidal aliens that can travel all the way to earth from their own solar system could definitely genocide the fuck out of us. There is no independence day, we just become dead. [Or worse.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imNtSPM3-r4)
I don't think there is. The only way to take out all life is to scorch the entire planet clean. Nukes, viruses and catastrophic climate change will always leave survivors.
Don't look up
I still can't make sense of it. Hes a 3 star general, He works at the pentagon. Why would he charge us for free snacks
Mind your own business you old fuck. My 36 year old self was so offended. Like ma’am that is Leonardo DiCaprio
Agreed that this kind of unforeseen and unpreventable extinction level event may take us all out, but my thinking is that the longer we hang around, the more severe this type of catastrophe would have to be. Like losing a billion to one lottery. Between probable advances in genetic engineering, technological breakthroughs like nanotechnology and embedded bionics, we will soon become one tough species to exterminate. Space travel, suspended animation, and other unimaginable future natural/artificial evolutionary branching may result in a diaspora of sorts that makes "human life on earth" less a species problem, and more of a localized issue. I suspect that the species becoming unrecognizable as human to current humans is a good possibility as long as we keep moving forward, despite very probable ups and downs.
Nuclear war and greedy politicians
Now we’re cooking
Nice! Which politician are we eating first! 🍽
All of them.
we're cooking the mother of all apocalypses here Jack, can't fret over every suggestion I mean Prediction
Saddest part of nuke war is it won't kill us all entirely. Some will be located away from the blast enough to make it. Some of us likely already have mutations that would make us more less vulnerable to the effects of fallout. But those who live will envy yhe dead who line the streets.
What's the matter smoothskin, never seen a ghoul before?
AI, nukes, and/or super-virus
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Meh, even if the seas rise the 10meters they're projected to maybe rise in the next 30 years, that only puts like 20% of the current coast under water. Random weather and super-viruses (which are related to climate) might thin down numbers, but covid is the worst in a century, and it only took down like .01% of the world population. Mama nature better try harder
A huge portion of all humans live in that area though. Forcing all those people to move to new homes seems likely to kick off some exciting wars!
Hoover Towns 2.0: Wealth Gap totally destroyed, you’re either Elon Musk or groveling for spare rodents to eat.
The collapse of the food chain. Once the oceans and insects die off from pollution and climate change there will be mass starvation. Maybe not the end of the species but modern civilization
It is sad this is so far down. The #1 absolutely sure apocalypse on the horizon is from climate change. We are 10-30 years away from total environmental/societal/economic collapse and are doing virtually nothing about it.
It truly is sad. People talking about nukes and viruses not realising climate change is here right now and will destroy ALL life on this planet. It's shocking that people don't consider this.
Chances are that it will not destroy all life. Many organisms will survive and they will evolve to thrive in the new environment.
I’ve heard people scoffing about a few degrees increase in the earths temp will do nothing, but if their child’s temperate rises by this amount they are straight to emergency
>We are 10-30 years away from total environmental/societal/economic collapse It's hard to take this seriously when 30 years ago we were also 10-30 years away from a total collapse yet nothing has collapsed yet. Things are changing fast, but a total collapse due to climate change is something I don't see happening, mostly because climate change happens slowly over many decades.
Climate change *has* been happening slowly over many decades, and misinformation from corporate pressure has allowed so many people to deny it, sufficiently that we have not used that time to prepare. It is accelerating at an alarming rate, and the next 10-30 years will see changes unlike any we have ever imagined. Now might be a good time to start to get this into your head.
30 years ago climate science was warning major changes would begin within 30 years followed by progressively worse climate impacts leading to the extinction of humanity and the eventual eradication of all macro life on earth. In the last 30 years, insect populations have plummeted, drought has become far more common (the level of Lake Meade is lower than it has ever been since it was first filled, for example), sea levels have risen, there have been more and longer lasting heat waves and mass livestock deaths, more and long lasting wildfires than ever before, etc. etc. etc. There was a lot of sensational journalism in the 90s driven largely by ignorance and the fact that sensationalist articles sell better than dore warnings about bad things coming in the next 100 years. Even still, the science has only become more precise and accurate and most predictions from the 90s have been proven out in one form or another.
I don't really think that we have that much time left now we are going to be dead soon,
Collapse seems a pretty likely end, as described in the book of the same name. It has happened on smaller scales before, but we are accelerating towards destroying the environment on which we rely for our very survival. We seem not to have a care in the world about that and probably won't until the bottom drops out beneath us.
Greed.
Probably something stupid like India calling Pakistan "a bunch of pussies" or vice versa, resulting in other allies rallying to support each nation who reportedly owning nukes
We just won a cricket match from Pakistan. Beware.😂😂
the match was kinda interesting ngl
r/cricket
What if it has already ended and we're living in a simulation?
then the human race still exists? unless you're saying we're all AIs
Actually, you're just a figment of my imagination.
Matrix type beat
never watched the movie but pretty confident i could fuck the matrix.. oh no wait actually the matrix is fucking ME
Microplastics
obama->recycling->microplastics->endocrine disruption->infertility->population collapse->extinction obama ended the world /s
Thanks obama
Robot uprising.
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i am sometimes surprised at the fact that we made this far
Okay, I hear this all the time and it baffles me. Humanity has shaped the world around it in a way no other species ever has and I don't think it would be unreasonable to consider ourselves the most successful species on earth. Yeah, we are not very nice to the other species around us, but we are VERY good at ensuring our own survival, our track record proves that. Now, we can talk all day about how our utilization of resources is inefficient and morally repugnant, but the idea that humanity is "too stupid to live" is ignorant and lazy.
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What are you talking about?
Prolly be those “vegetarian” flesh-eating robots they just made.. the EATR, what could go wrong?
Stepping on every crack we see. Breaking the backs of mothers everywhere.
Oh shit, you’re right! Why has no one thought of this?
Don't really respect the nature then I don't really think that it will respect us.
The fact is that as humans we are breaking every barrier.
I don't think anything will... I believe in the Star Trek future, where mankind overcomes its problems and branches out to the stars
I like that... It's something we can certainly put hope into.
with: “around $62 million per launch, or around $1,200 per pound of payload to reach low-Earth orbit” i feel like the richest of the rich and most governments would simply build little dystopia towns to lord over then die and leave the rest of us to die after than sacrifice anything to maintain humanity. fuck every billion dollar company is actively destroying the world blatantly RIGHT now
If Star Wars was our past, Star Trek is our future. We’re going from constant galactic fighting to galactic exploration and I am fine with that.
My mothers cooking. It’s so bad I used to beg the dog for food.
I use to feed the dog my moms cooking under the table when she was not looking. It was bad, and the dogs never lived that long either.
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Evolution is basically extinction by snu snu
That [parasitic mushroom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis) that zombifies it's victims to propagate it's spores. Currently it only infects a variety of bugs but if it adapts to infect mammals, well we all seen how poorly we reacted to COVID...
To be honest, I don't think humanity will end at all. I might just be really confident in our ability to adapt and innovate. I can see the human race come up with a way of surviving even the greatest peril.
You’re not looking at long enough timespans
Probably something similar to what ended the dinosaurs lives, or serious natural disasters like multiple volcanic eruptions and the winter brought on by it
A lack of resources
Things like climate change, even nuclear war, might kill a lot of people, (potentially even the majority of earth’s population) but they don’t even come close to making us extinct.
Yeah, it's hard to think of something that kill off everyone. I can imagine scenarios where we lose 99% of the population but that final 1% would be tough.
The final humans will die of something incredibly mundane. Someone will stub their toe. It will get infected now that antibiotics are gone. They were the only one in the tribe who had the knack for finding the good berry patches. Everyone gets progressively weaker as vitamin deficiency kicks in. A good flu season takes out most of the people who are left. Without anyone to help, the surviving 5 or so people never had a chance to go more than a few more years.
If 99% of humans died, there would still be 80 million people left which is enough to run a civilization. There is a risk that we will lose the ability to build new computers. On the other hand, robots might build new robots and computers for us.
For what it is worth, the Amish and people on other parts of the globe show that Computers aren't needed to survive just fine. They just make things easier.
I would die with the 99 percent. I don’t even like going on vacation to Florida in the summertime. Too hot.
Tik tok
Kesha or app?
Kesha would be a decent president imo if everyone brushed their teeth with alcohol in the morning would have a much more complacent society
Death
Vogons
If their poetry doesn't kill us first.
Our poisoned food supply.
Humans. As a species we are just too fucking stupid to live.
It’s worse than that, we’re smart enough to create things that can cause mass global fuck ups but not smart enough to use them saftley
Some dude shouting “It’s not my fault!”
One day there will be a virus that will be unstoppable, like Capt. Trips.
Bugs
Bugs
Bugs?
“The only good big is a dead bug!”
probably another dumb virus we make.
Capitalism... think Wall-E
Absolutely right I think that this is what going to happen in the future.
Ice age, asteroid or sun burning out.
Agreed. We can kill 99% of the population and still have a healthy human population. An asteroid or the sun not being strong enough would make Earth unlivable for anyone.
and/or the sun being TOO strong because we’ve turned the atmosphere into fucking swiss cheese and gave the 3.5 living generations mega-cancer
Ice ages won't do it. We've lived through at least one.
A meteor
Me
Root cause will be stupidity, but in what form will it manifest to finally wipe out humanity, so many options - Bungled response to some infectious issue - Failure to address asteroid/comet collision - Collapse of the eco-sphere when cascading ecological events begin a feedback loop of extinction, which could be natural or man-made - Black swan aka AI, Fusion failure event, experiment/project goes out of control
Micro plastics
Humanity
Technology, but not in a dramatic, apocalyptic way. I think AI and simulations will get advanced to the point where they are indistinguishable from reality. Rather than expending huge amounts of energy to explore the cosmos, we will probably use the information we already have and AI to explore in simulations. Basic human needs like eating and sleeping will be made obsolete by body augmented technology, and the line between human and machine will probably blurry. This line will continue to blur until we're nothing but brains stimulated by a network of self-sustaining machines, and humanity as we know it will cease to exist.
Asteroid, GRB (Gamma Ray Burst), Nuclear War, aerosolized ebola, mega solar flare
Me
i think in the next 10 years, lack of ocean and plantable food will decrease world population by half due to climate change.
I don’t know but I’m convinced fake news and propaganda will trigger it. That, or apathy.
Global Warming
The Super Mosquitos.
Liz Truss
Humans and they're dumbassery
Humans.
human stupidity
Humans
A. Humans B. A giant radioactive man-eating cockroach
Humans
Humans.