I don't want to panic people...

Kermit.de.frog

...in 2 billion years time but your DOOMED. Muhahahaha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r35EooK-vFs

What position is the church taking on this?

Our options appear to be

a: Take off and go somewhere else (extra billion years with Mars)
b: Cryogenically freeze Bruce Willis

It doesn't look good for us them does it?

Baggy Trousers

It is exceedingly likely that humanity will have wiped itself out long before then, probably within the 21st century.

Cantremember

There will be a raptor. Or a rapture. A big raptor would be nice.

The Peanut

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

It is exceedingly likely that humanity will have wiped itself out long before then, probably within the 21st century.

And a Happy New Year to you too.

Sheep Lover

I won't bother buying milk and bread this week then, would only go to waste.

chrysagon

break out the marsh mallows!!!

Talib Fiasco

Oh yeah they can predict sunrises in 7 billion years time but they can't f*cking predict the weather for the winter...it's terrible Joe

Pwindedd

TBH tomorrow would be grand with me. I'm kinda tired and can only see it going downhill from here.

Fr_Dougal

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

...in 2 billion years time but your DOOMED. Muhahahaha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r35EooK-vFs

What position is the church taking on this?

We've banned it. Carry on.

Talib Fiasco

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

We've banned it. Carry on.

Down with this sort of thing so faaaaaather?

chrysagon

factor 50 for me that day

Mr_Muffin

If we Humans are still around in 2 billion years we will have the power to create universes at the click of our finger/testicles so this will not be a problem.

SEPT 23 1989

Humans will watch that event unfold on a channel called Universe News

Highflyer13

Meh

ScumLord

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

What position is the church taking on this?

They've been saying this all along they just thought it would come much sooner.

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

It is exceedingly likely that humanity will have wiped itself out long before then, probably within the 21st century.

Humans are very difficult to get rid of. It's more likely we'll have killed everything else on the plant and be the only thing left.

Alf Veedersane

I'm going to say I'll be ok with this when I'm 2 billion and 34 years old

whupdedo

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

It is exceedingly likely that humanity will have wiped itself out long before then, probably within the 21st century.

I'd love to hear the reasoning behind this ^^^^

sh1tstirrer

I remember my mother and siblings visiting relations when I was around 7, there was this nun there that spent the whole night bladdering about the stars and the planets and how the earth would cease to be :eek: She frightened the sh1te out of myself and my siblings we though we were doomed and that we wouldn't be waking up in the morning

Baggy Trousers

whupdedo wrote: »

I'd love to hear the reasoning behind this ^^^^

Because I just finished reading this book.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-West-Rules-Now-Patterns/dp/1846681472/ref=sr_1_1/280-0879182-0996226?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419718453&sr=1-1&keywords=9781846681479

The last chapter was fascinating.

"Morris is better qualified than almost anyone else to answer the final question he asks: Is the world heading for "the Singularity" - a technological quantum leap beyond our traditional limitations as a species - or for a disastrous nightfall brought on by climate change, famine, state failure, mass migration, pandemic disease, and nuclear war? Readers will find nothing better on the subject than his final, mind-blowing chapter."

The whole book is a great read, would highly recommend it especially for history buffs.

jacksie66

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ScumLord

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

Because I just finished reading this book.

So you read a book and now humanity is doomed?

Mr_Muffin

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

If we Humans are still around in 2 billion years we will have the power to create universes at the click of our finger/testicles so this will not be a problem.

With evolution of modern lifeforms from basic algae (or similar) to humans taking less than 600 million years, what would humans look like in 2 billion years?? (apart from sunburnt)

Alf Veedersane

[Deleted User] wrote: »

With evolution of modern lifeforms from basic algae (or similar) to humans taking less than 600 million years, what would humans look like in 2 billion years?? (apart from sunburnt)

Fatter, prolly.

KungPao

Deleted User wrote: »

With evolution of modern lifeforms from basic algae (or similar) to humans taking less than 600 million years, what would humans look like in 2 billion years?? (apart from sunburnt)

Bigger balls I'd say.

Nonoperational

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

It is exceedingly likely that humanity will have wiped itself out long before then, probably within the 21st century.

It's actually exceptionally unlikely that we will have wiped ourselves out in the next 90 years.

sh1tstirrer

ScumLord wrote: »

So you read a book and now humanity is doomed?

That reminds me of the Nostradamus nonsense he wrote gobbledy gook and someone translated it to predict things that already happened.

Tail Docker

I thought this was going to be more frost hysteria..

Archeron

Best get the washing in off the line before that.

Tail Docker

Archeron wrote: »

Best get the washing in off the line before that.

Naah, be grand drying. Might get a bit smutty from the ash tho.

Cantremember

jacksie66 wrote: »

I can already create universes with the click of my testicles..

I'm intrigued. They click?

Cantremember

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

Because I just finished reading this book.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-West-Rules-Now-Patterns/dp/1846681472/ref=sr_1_1/280-0879182-0996226?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419718453&sr=1-1&keywords=9781846681479

The last chapter was fascinating.

"Morris is better qualified than almost anyone else to answer the final question he asks: Is the world heading for "the Singularity" - a technological quantum leap beyond our traditional limitations as a species - or for a disastrous nightfall brought on by climate change, famine, state failure, mass migration, pandemic disease, and nuclear war? Readers will find nothing better on the subject than his final, mind-blowing chapter."

The whole book is a great read, would highly recommend it especially for history buffs.

This is AH. Just give us the one line summary of the last chapter. Most of us are in our respective loos.

KungPao

KungPao wrote: »

Bigger balls I'd say.

Bollocks! there are some people already there.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/man-10-stone-testicles-channel-4-1985525

c_man

If any intelligent beings are around then, they'll have long since left Earth and settled elsewhere. Like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SRkjOL3tNM

cloud493

I thought this was gonna be a thread about how dublin city centre is a kip.

KungPao

cloud493 wrote: »

I thought this was gonna be a thread about how dublin city centre is a kip.

Why?

cloud493

KungPao wrote: »

Why?

The OP has a record of making such statements.

Baggy Trousers

Cantremember wrote: »

This is AH. Just give us the one line summary of the last chapter. Most of us are in our respective loos.

Cant be done. Read the book. It's essentially about history repeating itself but the technological changes of recent decades make Nightfall more likely as we hit the social development ceiling again. Seems to be about 50/50 that humanity survives until 2100. Cause will be a combination of what he calls the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse: (1) climate change (2) famine/disease (3) state failure (4) mass migration and of course nuclear war.
The alternative is some kind of global government where technological advances (and accordingly to Moore's Law, you aint seen nothing yet!) are used to save ourselves.

sh1tstirrer

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

Cant be done. Read the book. It's essentially about history repeating itself but the technological changes of recent decades make Nightfall more likely as we hit the social development ceiling again. Seems to be about 50/50 that humanity survives until 2100. Cause will be a combination of what he calls the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse: (1) climate change (2) famine/disease (3) state failure (4) mass migration and of course nuclear war.
The alternative is some kind of global government where technological advances (and accordingly to Moore's Law, you aint seen nothing yet!) are used to save ourselves.

Yawn, enough of this nonsense I'm off to bed

degsie

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

Yawn, enough of this nonsense I'm off to bed

Or are you?

Cee-Jay-Cee

What if it's cloudy that day, will we not see it?

crockholm

Unfortunately the increased luminousity of the sun will have completely baked the Earths Surface long Before it gets engulfed (about 600 million years time)

Tick tock,Clarice.

berniepixie

ScumLord wrote: »

So you read a book and now humanity is doomed?

Dexter Bip

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

What if it's cloudy that day, will we not see it?

Oh yes you will! (if you weren't already barbecued a thousand years before) Given the season that's in it how about "Oh no you won't" or " It's behind you.... **** ....fzzt. .... The end)

Dexter Bip

Dexter Bip wrote: »

Oh yes you will! ( if you weren't already barbecued. ) Given the season that's in it how about Oh no you won't or " its behind you.... **** ....fzzt. The end)

Dexter Bip ........ Just realises why people put numbers into recognised swearwords so they can write Sh1t when they mean **** because boards software censors it. But then again didn't I just see another thread on "What did you learn in 2014" Slow..... Me. I also am learning that I can't use ellipsis correctly. Count the dots.

Kermit.de.frog

cloud493 wrote: »

The OP has a record of making such statements.

It is a kip.

Anyway isn't it funny how environmentalists decry nuclear power on earth whilst ignoring the giant fusion reactor in space? If I was an environmentalist i'd call for it to be shut down.

Mountainsandh

Here's a good timeline to put things in perspective.

Scroll down for a perspective for how much "time until we're fúcked".

I think we'll have long gone interstellar/intergalactical by then, whether we'll find good spots to settle is another question.

http://waitbutwhy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Time.png

faceman

jacksie66 wrote: »

I can already create universes with the click of my testicles..

If you created this one then you well and truly made a balls of it.

Kermit.de.frog

On the contrary the universe is a beautiful wonder. It's complexity and scale is beyond human comprehension and probably always will be.

Zillah

In a million years humanity will either be extinct or so advanced that a single star doesn't mean much. It is beyond probability that anything like our current setup will be the norm by then, let alone billions of years.

challengemaster

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

If we Humans are still around in 2 billion years we will have the power to create universes at the click of our finger/testicles so this will not be a problem.

What IS a problem is that you can click your testicles. I'd get that checked.

braddun

I am waiting for Armageddon

I am rapture ready