How long does civilisation on planet earth have left

MementoMori · 03-09-2009 03:03PM #1

So I was wondering what the general consensus is on how long civilisation has left on the planet before humanity goes extinct?

Please provide you best guess - do we have a year, five years, ten years, a century, a 1000 years, 5000 years or 10000 years left on the planet?

For bonus points what do you reckon will do us in?

chin_grin · 03-09-2009 03:05PM

Terminators.

And Mars is getting closer to being colonised. Three boobied mutants FTW!

AnonoBoy · 03-09-2009 03:05PM

As long as it stretches until Monday I'll be happy. Wouldn't want to miss the Picnic.

petes · 03-09-2009 03:05PM

Fcuk knows.

Gummy Panda · 03-09-2009 03:05PM

Till tuesday

Daroxtar · 03-09-2009 03:06PM

We're civilised?

pikachucheeks · 03-09-2009 03:07PM

Ask Stephen Hawking?
He knows everything!

MementoMori · 03-09-2009 03:08PM

Now with added poll

rockmongrel · 03-09-2009 03:09PM

As long as we keep going for the next 70 or 80 years I'm happy, let me live out my days.

chin_grin · 03-09-2009 03:09PM

pikachucheeks wrote: »

Ask Stephen Hawking?
He knows everything!

Does he know how to walk? Ha! Go basic motor skills!

El Weirdo · 03-09-2009 03:11PM

1hr 50mins.

cathysworld · 03-09-2009 03:11PM

A Thousand Years

Check out that great song Infinity by "Guru" Josh, if anyone knows it's him!

I would say hoomans have about 500 years left, by then absolutely everything will have been discussed on boards.ie and nobody will care to live anymore....

03-09-2009 03:12PM

It will feel like the end of the world on Monday after 3 days at Electric Picnic :pac:

pikachucheeks · 03-09-2009 03:13PM

chin_grin wrote: »

Does he know how to walk? Ha! Go basic motor skills!

He's smart enough to use the Homer Simpson mentality ; using your legs is for suckers!

:P

Rented Mule · 03-09-2009 03:15PM

I guess you would have to ask Keith Richards in order to know for sure.

Once you guage how long he is going to live, you can ballpark the rest of humanity.

Biggins · 03-09-2009 03:16PM

A Thousand Years

500+

1000 if we are lucky.

Kradock · 03-09-2009 03:30PM

Till my God decides otherwise

ScumLord · 03-09-2009 03:31PM

Humans are survivors, we've survived just about everything mother nature has thrown at us and are better equipped than ever to deal with whatever else she decides to throw at us. If we do get off this planet and out of this solar system we're almost guaranteed to go on for hundreds of thousands of years. Bar a truly massive asteroid hitting earth or a black hole opening up beside us I think we're safe enough.

rossie1977 · 03-09-2009 03:34PM

unless we experience a supernova or a giant meteoroid/comet collides with the earth killing everything even bacteria, its really impossible to tell, humans are living longer now than ever before, all out nuclear war wouldn't wipe out everyone, a great plague wouldn't wipe out everyone, many would still survive, in the stand captain trips even with a 99.4% mortality rate, many survived and there is no disease on earth with close to a 99% mortality rate

Mr. Presentable · 03-09-2009 03:34PM

Ahh, civilisation has been in decline and breaking down for about 200 years I'd say. But you probably mean humanity, in which case I'd say there will be human communities of one form or another for thousands of years yet, barring a planetary cataclysm.

ChocolateSauce · 03-09-2009 03:35PM

To infinity! Well okay, not that much, but I would say the chances of us surviving the death of our sun are high, assuming we can make it that far.

cathysworld · 03-09-2009 03:37PM

A Thousand Years

Two words-Chuck Norris!

Kradock · 03-09-2009 03:39PM

Kradock wrote: »

Till my God decides otherwise

I have spoken to him , he says we have 666 years left.

laoisforliam · 03-09-2009 03:42PM

Ten Years

http://www.2012forum.com/

Hugo Drax · 03-09-2009 03:43PM

First there was the dream, now there is reality. Here in the untainted cradle of the heavens will be created a new super race, a race of perfect physical specimens. You have been selected as its progenitors. Like gods, your offspring will return to Earth and shape it in their image. You have all served in public capacties in my terrestrial empire. Your seed, like yourselves, will pay deference to the ultimate dynasty which I alone have created. From their first day on Earth they will be able to look up and know that there is law and order in the heavens.

Canis Lupus · 03-09-2009 03:45PM

Five Thousand Years

ScumLord wrote: »

Humans are survivors, we've survived just about everything mother nature has thrown at us and are better equipped than ever to deal with whatever else she decides to throw at us. If we do get off this planet and out of this solar system we're almost guaranteed to go on for hundreds of thousands of years. Bar a truly massive asteroid hitting earth or a black hole opening up beside us I think we're safe enough.

I ponder sometimes what happens when an ice age kicks off again? Sure humans might survive but what kind of civilisation?

Hugo Drax · 03-09-2009 03:47PM

Eskimos would be in pole position for global dominance.

Kradock · 03-09-2009 03:49PM

Hugo Drax wrote: »

Eskimos would be in pole position for global dominance.

With Penguins as their inforcers

vestanpance · 03-09-2009 03:49PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

As long as it stretches until Monday I'll be happy. Wouldn't want to miss the Picnic.

The teddy bears one?

Pygmalion · 03-09-2009 03:51PM

Infinity and Beyond

Barring something spectacular like a meteor strike, I'd say we last until the sun explodes or becomes too hot/cold to sustain life here.

Humans have survived tens of thousands of years in much worse conditions than there are now. There have never been so many of us and we're living longer and healthier lives.
Anyone who thinks we're going away anytime soon is pretty ignorant.

Oh as for the "but global warming will destroy us all" people, while it may have some pretty bad effects on the world and human civilisation, there are huge areas which will be affected very little, if at all. Potentially causing severe damage in coastal areas =/= destroying humanity

Hugo Drax · 03-09-2009 03:53PM

Actually it's quite likely that humanity will continue for millions of years.

But the point is that the humans of say, 1 million years time will bear as much resemblence to us as we do to prehistoric apemen, they will be physically unrecognisable to us as humans after another few hundred thousand years of evolution.

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