how long

[steve dave]

Kinda off topic, has anyone seen the movie with Luke Wilson?  Can't remember what it's called but it's really stupid.  The theory is that with all the stupid people having lots of babies and the smarter/ more logical people having only 1 or sometimes none that the worlds populaiton is getting dumber every generation. 

[Rick Daris]

200<
Yellowstone erupts
Meteor
Pole reversal
Solar Flare

I don't get the low figures based on these things.  I mean, we've made it this long facing all of them and suddenly we are down to the final seconds (relatively) of our existance?  meh...

I guessed the same possible events, yet went with 2-5000 years for this reason. Nuclear weapons would be the only reason I would guess a shorter time. That's really the only major change in the past 200,000 years.

but nuclear weapons occured in the last hundred years right? pretty short time period there.

you don't think something more powerful/easier to make/secure the ingredients for will be discovered in the next hundred years?

i bet nuclear weapons will be looked at like cannons are now if we're still here in two hundred years. people will probably collect them and keep them in their foyers and lol at the fact that they used to be considered massive and scary and stuff.

[steve dave]

200<
Yellowstone erupts
Meteor
Pole reversal
Solar Flare

I don't get the low figures based on these things.  I mean, we've made it this long facing all of them and suddenly we are down to the final seconds (relatively) of our existance?  meh...

I guessed the same possible events, yet went with 2-5000 years for this reason. Nuclear weapons would be the only reason I would guess a shorter time. That's really the only major change in the past 200,000 years.

but nuclear weapons occured in the last hundred years right? pretty short time period there.

you don't think something more powerful/easier to make/secure the ingrediants for will be discovered in the next hundred years?

i bet nuclear weapons will be looked at like cannons are now if we're still here in two hundred years. people will probably collect them and keep them in their foyers and lol at the fact that they used to be considered massive and scary and stuff.

This is kind of my theory on why we will never meet any aliens.  Every intelligent being eventually becomes able to easily destroy all of itself.  By the time you reach the technological stage where you would be able to travel into deep space and live forever you have already become able to completely destroy your whole society and, inevitably, someone will (maybe even by accident -> LHC!)

[ew2x4]

200<
Yellowstone erupts
Meteor
Pole reversal
Solar Flare

I don't get the low figures based on these things.  I mean, we've made it this long facing all of them and suddenly we are down to the final seconds (relatively) of our existance?  meh...

I guessed the same possible events, yet went with 2-5000 years for this reason. Nuclear weapons would be the only reason I would guess a shorter time. That's really the only major change in the past 200,000 years.

but nuclear weapons occured in the last hundred years right? pretty short time period there.

you don't think something more powerful/easier to make/secure the ingrediants for will be discovered in the next hundred years?

i bet nuclear weapons will be looked at like cannons are now if we're still here in two hundred years. people will probably collect them and keep them in their foyers and lol at the fact that they used to be considered massive and scary and stuff.

I don't see us going towards a total destruction weapon in the future. My bet is money will be invested in stuff like unmanned drones and stuff to patrol like that. I'm seeing countries that would rather control than destroy.

[Rick Daris]

200<
Yellowstone erupts
Meteor
Pole reversal
Solar Flare

I don't get the low figures based on these things.  I mean, we've made it this long facing all of them and suddenly we are down to the final seconds (relatively) of our existance?  meh...

I guessed the same possible events, yet went with 2-5000 years for this reason. Nuclear weapons would be the only reason I would guess a shorter time. That's really the only major change in the past 200,000 years.

but nuclear weapons occured in the last hundred years right? pretty short time period there.

you don't think something more powerful/easier to make/secure the ingrediants for will be discovered in the next hundred years?

i bet nuclear weapons will be looked at like cannons are now if we're still here in two hundred years. people will probably collect them and keep them in their foyers and lol at the fact that they used to be considered massive and scary and stuff.

This is kind of my theory on why we will never meet any aliens.  Every intelligent being eventually becomes able to easily destroy all of itself.  By the time you reach the technological stage where you would be able to travel into deep space and live forever you have already become able to completely destroy your whole society and, inevitably, someone will (maybe even by accident -> LHC!)

yeah. so sad. and the accident thing wouldn't surprise me at all, that's my prediction more/less.
 

[KSt8er]

seems weird that most people think it's gonna be a natural disaster or solar flare or asteroid or something. humans have been around for like a kabillion years (approx) and none of those things have got us yet. kinda weird that a lot of folks think one of em will get us in the next 200 years. dunno though, maybe not.

i think it will be something man made or discovered or whatever.

Timeline, they are repetitive and due.

Yellowstone magma dome is rising and due based on previous eruptions.
Polar magnetic shift is due.
Solar flares happen all the time, a big is quite possible at any time.
The big ole meteor is out there and heading our way, its a matter of when.

Granted these have a +- of a few thousand years, I just like to think humans are about to be extincted, I don't like them.   

[fatty fat fat]

this stuff is fantastic in movies. day after 2maro was pure entertainment.

[GoldbrickGangBoss]

200<
Yellowstone erupts
Meteor
Pole reversal
Solar Flare

I don't get the low figures based on these things.  I mean, we've made it this long facing all of them and suddenly we are down to the final seconds (relatively) of our existance?  meh...

I guessed the same possible events, yet went with 2-5000 years for this reason. Nuclear weapons would be the only reason I would guess a shorter time. That's really the only major change in the past 200,000 years.

but nuclear weapons occured in the last hundred years right? pretty short time period there.

you don't think something more powerful/easier to make/secure the ingrediants for will be discovered in the next hundred years?

i bet nuclear weapons will be looked at like cannons are now if we're still here in two hundred years. people will probably collect them and keep them in their foyers and lol at the fact that they used to be considered massive and scary and stuff.

This is kind of my theory on why we will never meet any aliens.  

Lots of people would counter that we already have.