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Most probable Extinction event?

Poll: Most likely cause of our extinction?
This poll is closed.
huge ass asteroid go boom with earth!
27.78%
 5 27.78%
death by war (and everything that entails)
16.67%
 3 16.67%
virus/bacteria
5.56%
 1 5.56%
unforseen GM byproduct (eg: sterility, etc)
0%
 0 0%
other natural or manmade environmental catastrophe
33.33%
 6 33.33%
Other? god? VR sim turned off?
11.11%
 2 11.11%
I fucking hate polls! Fuck Off!
5.56%
 1 5.56%
Total 18 vote(s) 100%
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Most probable Extinction event?
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#11
RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 9:50 am
The ultimate reason: someone will unplug the matrix machine.
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RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 9:51 am
(July 25, 2015 at 6:41 am)ignoramus Wrote:
(July 25, 2015 at 4:26 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: If the earth  was hit with a 1000 km asteroid, it would be like shoot an orange with a .22 Personally I think the most likely end is from a artificially enhanced virus getting lose on accident and the government being more concerned with covering their own ass then helping the world stop it.

Someone's been playing too much Resident Evil me thinks!

Actually I was thinking more of a situation where its a simple mistake with a already made bio weapon.
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#13
RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 10:05 am
(July 25, 2015 at 9:51 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:
(July 25, 2015 at 6:41 am)ignoramus Wrote: Someone's been playing too much Resident Evil me thinks!

Actually I was thinking more of a situation where its a simple mistake with a already made bio weapon.
I hope the vector is monkeys. Rapidly reproducing rabid frothing jumping screaming zombie monkeys.
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RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 11:10 am
Nuclear war, with either The Middle East and/or North Korea at the centre of it.

I'm convinced it's coming
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RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 12:16 pm
Nature is quite good at fixing itself, so I am not too worried on that end. If the earth does perish, it'd most likely by a human screwup.
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RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 12:29 pm
(July 25, 2015 at 11:10 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Nuclear war, with either The Middle East and/or North Korea at the centre of it.

I'm convinced it's coming
It is but it won't make humans extinct. The middle East will be a big parking lot sure, but the rest of the world will probably survive okay.
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The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
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That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
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RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 12:45 pm
I gotta go with the asteroid impact mainly because of the likely reactions of earthly powers.

The US will want to blow it up.
Russia will want to annex the eastern part of it.
China will try to buy it.
The E.U. will offer it asylum and welfare.
And Texas will declare it a government plot.


We'll still be arguing when it hits.
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RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 12:46 pm (This post was last modified: July 25, 2015 at 12:46 pm by Brian37.)
I think polution, climate change and over cusumption of resources has the potential to lead to a nuclear war. That certainly can knock us back into the stone age.

Outside that, knowing the planet has had 5 mass extictions since the start of evolution, even without our own hand, it is highly unlikely our species will survive up until the death of our sun.
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Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 1:28 pm
Our species will survive to the end of time. Technology will allow our descendants to prevail.
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RE: Most probable Extinction event?
July 25, 2015 at 3:32 pm (This post was last modified: July 25, 2015 at 3:32 pm by robvalue.)
I feel like nuclear war is the most obvious. I can't believe it hasn't happened already (there have been very near misses I understand).

I'm also somewhat concerned about unfriendly AI. We have a tendency to not realized the long term effects of our technology until it's fucking us in the ass.
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