Do you believe human life will cease to exist one day?

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I do

Whether it be via disease, war, global warming, or simply something else, I honestly believe humans will cease to exist. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. We are a plague on this planet

It’s a probability job.

100% that we won’t live forever as a species. No chance at all. Whether by evolution or the sun burning out.

Then it’s X% an asteroid, Y% a plague, Z% a mega volcano and so on. Nuclear war, global warming etc. may not be extinction level, but they might.

I’m not bothered. The impermanence of life is sort of comforting. Nothing really matters.

There wasn’t an indication of “when” in the question.

The answer is yes, humans will cease to exist.

Our Sun has a lifespan. It will eventually become a red giant and expand and swallow the Earth.

I'm honestly astonished that some people on here believe that humanity will only be wiped out when our planet is destroyed by the sun in billions of years. Humanity could be wiped out in the very near future, most likely by AI or by nuclear warfare. Apparently there are over 12,000 nuclear warheads in the world, and 4,000 of them are currently active. Most of these are in the hands of those peaceful, kind people Putin and Trump. A few people might survive, in a destroyed world. And of course if we survive long enough, vast numbers will be killed by the consequences of global warming.
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Why wouldn't it?

And it won’t happen because we are bad / good / a blessing / a plague, it will haven because biology. And chemistry and physics.

c’est la vie

Unfortunately, we are very special. Most species don't destroy themselves (or vast numbers of other species).

I think I'd put my money on the extermination or near extermination of humanity this century. But I'm frankly not optimistic about the next few years.

Yes, of course. It could happen for any number of reasons -

• Virus
• Killed off by more powerful alien species
• Planet becomes uninhabitable
• Giant meteor wipes us out
• Some reason that we are not capable of knowing because whatever kills us doesn't yet exist

This list of predictable future astrological events might interest you, OP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_future_astronomical_events

Yes..... baby jesus if you're listening, anytime now sweet lord.

I can’t see us being around in a thousand years time, but they may have thought that a thousand years ago !
Luckily I won’t be around to know one way or another.

I think it's reasonably likely that at some point in the next few hundred years we will destroy ourselves almost to the point of extinction but unlikely we'll die out altogether.

It's inevitable that human life will cease to exist on this planet at some point in the very distant future because the sun will die.

It's possible that human life could continue to exist if we manage to colonise other planets or build giant spaceships to warehouse a viable population.

Eventually the heat death of the universe would get us if we were still around.

But isn't it astonishing that we even exist in the first place?

I think a handful of humans might survive in far flung corners of the Earth but the majority of humans will be wiped out in the next 100 or so years at the hands of other humans or through disease or factors relating to climate change.

Ten years ago or so, I heard James Lovelock, author of Gaia, say in a radio interview that he thought just a few humans who were willing and able to move to distant /little populated areas would survive the troubled state of the world. It stuck with me and things haven't exactly improved. 🙁

Hopefully! Because we are a horrible species destroying the planet and virtually everything else that lives.

Obviously…but not anytime soon.
And give it a rest with the “we are plague to this planet” bollocks. Even if we kill ourselves off with climate change, disease, nuclear Armageddon…planet earth will barely blink and will keep on ticking and will do just fine.

Oh get a grip

Nope. It's true. Humans are horrible, horrible things.

The sun burning out is the absolute. So is evolution.

Everything else is a maybe/when.

Ok, that’s me told.

Yes of course along with other species. The earth will continue on.

Not in our lifetime, but eventually, of course. I think we will probably bring about our own demise! I don’t think it’s a bad thing, nothing lasts forever.

Yep and it can't come soon enough. Humans don't deserve to exist.

Well obviously. The sun will burn out in a few billion years. Plus y’know, evolution before that - we’ll evolve into something else.

Wish people paid more attention in school…

i dare say it’ll be an asteroid - like the one that finished off the dinosaurs - that’ll wipe us out.

Yes and hopefully the planet and animals will be a lot better off.