Wheres the human race headed

jetski · 13-08-2009 02:02PM #1

Curious question,

whats the general aim / common goal of the human race, are we just here to reproduce and sail along or are we heading somewhere....

AnonoBoy · 13-08-2009 02:03PM

The Pub! Yay! \o/

petes · 13-08-2009 02:03PM

Survival.

DrumSteve · 13-08-2009 02:06PM

that way

> to PI.

Wibbs · 13-08-2009 02:12PM

Pretty much as insurgent said. We're evolving genetically faster now than at any other time in our history as a species. At the gene level we're quite different in many ways than we were 20,000 years ago. Localised appearance is one example. White skin is relatively recent. Blonde hair and blue eyes even moreso(AFAIR only 10,000 years old as a look in humans). We're even very different in certain areas than we were 6/7,000 years ago(mostly to do with adaptations to diet). The bigger the population involved the more mutations and genetic drift will occur. As we're not likely to see any serious isolation happening, I dunno how likely speciation will be and a "new" human may come about, but it's possible.

genericguy · 13-08-2009 02:14PM

not really sure where we're headed, but i hope africa catches up with the rest of us, cos I'm sick of being asked to donate money for them to spend on machetes to kill each other.

El Siglo · 13-08-2009 02:16PM

I believe we're heading for something like this...

johnny_knoxvile · 13-08-2009 02:19PM

...to cock-block Bertie. (i have no idea what i mean by that)

Hazys · 13-08-2009 02:21PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Pretty much as insurgent said. We're evolving genetically faster now than at any other time in our history as a species. At the gene level we're quite different in many ways than we were 20,000 years ago. Localised appearance is one example. White skin is relatively recent. Blonde hair and blue eyes even moreso(AFAIR only 10,000 years old as a look in humans). We're even very different in certain areas than we were 6/7,000 years ago(mostly to do with adaptations to diet). The bigger the population involved the more mutations and genetic drift will occur. As we're not likely to see any serious isolation happening, I dunno how likely speciation will be and a "new" human may come about, but it's possible.

Im not too sure if this is what u said because u used a lot of big words and me no like big words but isen't white skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes slowely going extinct. I heard somewhere that in 50 years the only place we'll find a person naturally born with blonde hair is in Scandinvia? are doing a full circle?

genericguy · 13-08-2009 02:21PM

johnny_knoxvile wrote: »

...to cock-block Bertie. (i have no idea what i mean by that)

if by 'cock-block' you mean 'elect as uachtarán na hEireann', then yes, the idiotic irish part of the world is heading that way.

El Siglo · 13-08-2009 02:21PM

johnny_knoxvile wrote: »

...to cock-block Bertie. (i have no idea what i mean by that)

Like this?

Boskowski · 13-08-2009 02:23PM

Down the swanny - as they say. Almost inevitable at this stage I would think.

Wibbs · 13-08-2009 02:28PM

Hazys wrote: »

Im not too sure if this is what u said because u used a lot of big words and me no like big words but isen't white skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes slowely going extinct. I heard somewhere that in 50 years the only place we'll find a person naturally born with blonde hair is in Scandinvia? are doing a full circle?

Possibly. Ditto with the gene for red hair. They're all relatively recent(though red hair may be a neandertal thing as they were redheads(and white), though it seems to be a slightly different gene). They're recent changes and in what was an isolated bunch of people, so with enough interbreeding it could well die out as they're recessive AFAIR. Then again there's not that much interbreeding going on. It looks like there is, but that's just because there's more of us. I reckon we'll ahve blondes and redheads around for a while yet.

K-9 · 13-08-2009 02:28PM

The finishing line.

jebuz · 13-08-2009 02:36PM

jetski wrote: »

Curious question,

whats the general aim / common goal of the human race, are we just here to reproduce and sail along or are we heading somewhere....

Well sorry not all of us can afford boats

BraziliaNZ · 13-08-2009 02:37PM

Headed to Doom!!! We have overpopulated the planet far too much and everything else is dying. So unless we take action and stop having so many kids and using so much stuff we're doomed. It's too late now anyway so i dont care, i doubt i'll have kids though. I really don't know why people like Miriam O'Callaghan are being lauded as Supermums because she has 8 kids, she's a disgrace to the planet, should be shot in the face, imagine all the waste they will produce??? God i hate her...
Anyway i'm not a fan of the movie but i like this quote from the matrix, is god's truth!

I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.

Blazer · 13-08-2009 02:40PM

We're headed to a majority population of gingers.
Then we can take the piss out of blackheads, blondes, brunettes etc as they'll be in the minority and inferior to us..

Don't believe me? It happened on South Park

genericguy · 13-08-2009 04:06PM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I really don't know why people like Miriam O'Callaghan

because she's a fookin' ride. that is why.

Wazdakka · 13-08-2009 04:10PM

Running at an unstoppable speed toward this.

BraziliaNZ · 13-08-2009 04:17PM

genericguy wrote: »

because she's a fookin' ride. that is why.

with 8 kids she must have a vagina so big the whole universe is imploding into it

Euro_Kraut · 13-08-2009 04:37PM

Kilkenny. Back on Monday.

MayoForSam · 13-08-2009 04:49PM

How do you fancy downloading your mind (shouldn't that be uploading)?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/singularity/

Meet the scientific prophets who claim we are on the verge of creating a new type of human - a human v2.0.
It's predicted that by 2029 computer intelligence will equal the power of the human brain. Some believe this will revolutionise humanity - we will be able to download our minds to computers extending our lives indefinitely. Others fear this will lead to oblivion by giving rise to destructive ultra intelligent machines.
One thing they all agree on is that the coming of this moment - and whatever it brings - is inevitable.

No more humanity, just a few T1000's knocking about. No more bodily functions to worry about anyway.

tolosenc · 13-08-2009 04:56PM

MayoForSam wrote: »

How do you fancy downloading your mind (shouldn't that be uploading)?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/singularity/

No more humanity, just a few T1000's knocking about. No more bodily functions to worry about anyway.

Wasn't that from Friends?

mathie · 13-08-2009 05:07PM

To an apostropheless world.

Oh no wait were there already.

blinding · 13-08-2009 05:11PM

To hell in a handbag according to some.

Will that be an interesting journey amongst all the clutter.

IRockUrSocks · 13-08-2009 05:11PM

It's headed for a big pile of horse ****. Haven't you ever wondered why old people always say "Thank God I'm leaving this world and not just coming into it"?...It's because every year, this nanny state gets a greater hold on ours lives and the way we should live it.

Sometimes I wish I had the resources to fly to a deserted tropical island and chill with native woman, never to return to this crappy system we are forced to live within.

Calibos · 13-08-2009 05:12PM

I have little faith in humanity. Remember, most people are morons. A higher percentage of civilised morons in the West I'll grant you but as a whole, there are a lot more uncivilised morons in the world. Our modern soceity will eventually go tits up and ultimately we'll end up back in the stoneage or at the very least pre-industrial technologically. The problem is that we won't ever be able to advance to this level of technology again. Technology relies on resources. Our Soceity has used up all the easily accessible resources to get us where we are today. If we have to start from scratch again, there wont be a second industrial revolution because the easily accessible resources are gone and they'd need high technology to access whats left, but one needs the resources to develop that high technology in the first place.....so its a bit of a catch 22 for our future primative decendents.

As for a posters comment about Africa catching up with us...He's intimating 'Evolutionaryily' (Say that drunk

). Thats pretty racist tbh. I am no PC bleeding heart liberal but its pretty obvious from the antics of our own poor uneducated scumbags, that the problem with Africans isn't that they are any less evolved than us, just that the soceities they are from for various reasons make most of them 'Poor, uneducated and in many cases scumbags'. Its just our western soceities got a handle on moron control a while back and educated the scumbagbery out of a much higher percentage of us.

To finish off. While I can see the recessive Blonde and Blue eyed genes being bred out by the brown eyed brown/black haired masses, because lets face it, who doesn't want to Fcuk a Blonde, I can see the Ginger gene lasting forever. Although the Gene is recessive, the fact that only another Ginger would fcuk a Ginger means that the Ginger Gene will be perpetuated in the genepool for eons to come.

fintonie · 13-08-2009 05:17PM

space, they reckon in the next couple hundred years it will be possible to move the earth in any direction we want this will become our space ship,

dropping off the undesirables on the moon and other places on the way,

thats what they reckon.

blinding · 13-08-2009 05:20PM

fintonie wrote: »

space, they reckon in the next couple hundred years it will be possible to move the earth in any direction we want this will become our space ship,

dropping off the undesirables on the moon and other places on the way,

thats what they reckon.

Sounds good as long as you don't turf me off unless I want to get off or its really really for my own good and I cannot see the wisdom in it.

Oh The Humanity · 13-08-2009 05:25PM

MayoForSam wrote: »

No more humanity

Still here so I am ! :mad::(

meditraitor · 13-08-2009 05:27PM

We will be fine, no worries

Wheres the human race headed

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