Is humanity doomed?

[SoCal Sam]

Yes, we are doomed!
In about 4.5 billion years, our galaxy will collide with Andromeda. They say our sun will make it, but until then it will have grown to a giant that will have roasted us. So, there's no question, we are doomed.

The problem is, how to survive until then.

Earth has about another billion years or so of habitability, which is a lot less than how long the sun will last. That's because as the sun consumes hydrogen, it gets hotter. Eventually, Earth will cook and become Venus like.

 

[SolderIron]

Earth has about another billion years or so of habitability, which is a lot less than how long the sun will last. That's because as the sun consumes hydrogen, it gets hotter. Eventually, Earth will cook and become Venus like.

If we don't wipe ourselves out getting to then, mankind will have evolved so much that it won't be anything like us today. We are talking about at or fraction of billion years. Whatever human becomes will figure out how to move to a safe place until there is no place left.

 

[SoCal Sam]

If we don't wipe ourselves out getting to then, mankind will have evolved so much that it won't be anything like us today. We are talking about at or fraction of billion years. Whatever human becomes will figure out how to move to a safe place until there is no place left.

From a purely evolutionary perspective, mammals tend to evolve into something else or go extinct in what would be short geologic time. Humans have the unique capacity to delay or hasten this evolution. One possible outcome is that humans have conquered disease and increased life span so much so that the planet becomes over populated and runs out of resources. Ah, the irony of progress. We are the ultimate cockroach. Matter what we do to ourselves and our planet, some will survive.

 

[IPADave]

From a purely evolutionary perspective, mammals tend to evolve into something else or go extinct in what would be short geologic time. Humans have the unique capacity to delay or hasten this evolution. One possible outcome is that humans have conquered disease and increased life span so much so that the planet becomes over populated and runs out of resources. Ah, the irony of progress. We are the ultimate cockroach. Matter what we do to ourselves and our planet, some will survive.

Keith Richards

 

[jmchrislip]

George Carlin said it all:

 

[Gibsonian]

In the US Corona not improving, it's going the other direction

 

[SoCal Sam]

How about peer reviewed scientific papers, not **** you find on Facebook.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7074995/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/odi.13484

there are others. All peer reviewed. Where is your proof?

Stow that foul mouth. This is AK.

 

[beat_truck]

If you look hard enough, you can find studies to back up almost anything you might believe. Even studies from credible sources can be skewed or just wrong.

I have better things to do than search the 'net, reading about what might kill me. I might get hit by a car or fall out of bed and break my neck tomorrow.

 

[sKiZo]

In the US Corona not improving, it's going the other direction

Ah. Figured out the problem here. Depends on how you look at things. ;-}

 

[grillebilly]

Ah. Figured out the problem here. Depends on how you look at things. ;-}

The People's Cube...they come up with some great stuff.

 

[Shominy]

Earth has about another billion years or so of habitability, which is a lot less than how long the sun will last. That's because as the sun consumes hydrogen, it gets hotter. Eventually, Earth will cook and become Venus like.

No, not exactly. It is a complicated process not fully understood, involving concentric shells burning H, He, C, etc. and will enter the end with electron degeneration in the core.

Expansion is what consumes the terrestrial planets, not being "cooked" from a central star.

 

[Rockyhill]

If you look hard enough, you can find studies to back up almost anything you might believe. Even studies from credible sources can be skewed or just wrong.

I have better things to do than search the 'net, reading about what might kill me. I might get hit by a car or fall out of bed and break my neck tomorrow.

But you can avoid risks too.

Apparently some people aren't doing that and this is the result:

 

[Rockyhill]

Unfortunately this thread is doomed.

 

[beat_truck]

But you can avoid risks too.

Apparently some people aren't doing that and this is the result:

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More graphs and stats. Yawn. I do what I can within reason and don't obsess over it.

 

[Rockyhill]

More graphs and stats. Yawn. I do what I can within reason and don't obsess over it.

Your choice. Best of luck. Wear a mask and keep your distance. Otherwise RIP.

 

[noogies]

Stow that foul mouth. This is AK.

 

[beat_truck]

Your choice. Best of luck. Wear a mask and keep your distance. Otherwise RIP.

Yes, it is my choice. That chart you showed me is really going to change what happens either way, isn't it.

If obsessing over meaningless charts, graphs, and stats makes you feel better or more protected, have at it.

 

[Chubba]

As we know each day is the end of the world for many.Cheers

 

[Gibsonian]

Yes, it is my choice. That chart you showed me is really going to change what happens either way, isn't it.

If obsessing over meaningless charts, graphs, and stats makes you feel better or more protected, have at it.

Yep, ignore it and go about your day. It is what it is, isn't it?

 

[cornemuse]

With the ability to find almost anything on the internet, I would say that within 100 years or so, people will have ability to actually find anything online. When that day arrives, we are all doomed. Some nutcase will figure out how to build a nuke in his mothers basement or create some genetic mutation of some virus/germ/whatever that will kill us all.