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NutterAlert
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Topic: In the year 2525, will mankind still be alive? Posted: November 24 2015 at 08:36 |
Ok I am going to start a cheerful thread. Will we make it as a species till 2525? With escalting violence around the World, global warming, ebola outbreaks, the real threat that anti-biotics will not be able to cure all anymore, mass obesity, the threat of a major pandemic, or an asteriod splatting the Earth big time, will we be wiped out as a species? Will the concern of those wise men Zager and Evans come true and mankind not make it to 2525? And just to make this even more cheerful what do you think will wipe humanity out in the end? more prozac please nurse....
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Disparate Times
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 08:50 |
Robots will do everything for us including solving our problems. The real question is how much will Rolling Stones tickets cost?
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emigre80
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 08:51 |
Disparate Times wrote:
Robots will do everything for us including solving our problems. The real question is how much will Rolling Stones tickets cost? |
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Blacksword
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 09:03 |
I think we'll be gone a long time before then... There's not much reason to think we'll be around. We appear to be on an almost engineered and predestined path of self destruction and to think people flap about CO2, plastic bags and aluminium drinks cans. As George Carlin said regarding all those people who want to 'save the planet' the planet is fine, it's the people who are f***ed.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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chopper
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 09:12 |
I think Man will either have mutated into a big pink blobby thing that sits in front of the 2525 equivalent of the TV and drinks beer all day.
Either that or we will have blown ourselves to Kingdom Come.
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The T
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 09:17 |
Yes. Mankind will last until an asteroid or another external event like that destroys it. Humanity sucks, people suck. But the survival instinct is strong in them. Self-annihilation is improbable, though not impossible.
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presdoug
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 09:35 |
We will be gone long before then. Things are going to be really difficult by about 2100. (not that things are rosy right now, but you get my drift)
Edited by presdoug - November 24 2015 at 09:37
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Meltdowner
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 09:39 |
We'll be polluting another planet by then.
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lazland
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 10:18 |
We've already gone. This reality is simply nothing more than a dream fired by the imagination and words of Jon Anderson.
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dr wu23
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 11:13 |
The aliens will land long before then and usher us into a golden age.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin
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Follix
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 12:12 |
Maybe man will still be alive, but I am pretty certain that global population will be much less than it is today.
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DDPascalDD
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 12:16 |
Let's first look at our odds of making it till 2112.
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kenethlevine
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 12:58 |
that classic track is also a women's lib trailblazer
"if man is still alive, if woman can survive"
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condor
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 13:08 |
We'll all be robots by then, served by simpler robots. To me, the meaning of life seems to avoid all acute pain.
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zappaholic
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 13:11 |
"Everywhere you look nowadays, you look on TV you'll see people being run over by tanks, people being beaten by the police, people starving, new sexual diseases - obviously the human race is in love with self-destruction. We are only satisfying a consumer need." -- Dave Brockie (aka Oderus Urungus of GWAR), 1963-2014
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 15:01 |
dr wu23 wrote:
The aliens will land long before then and usher us into a golden age. |
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I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 21:53 |
Violence? Climate change? Viruses? Poppycock; people (not to mention the planet) are way too tough and resilient for that petty stuff. The only thing I can see would be a big rock from space... and even then we'd probably still hang on in small pockets.
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Atavachron
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 21:55 |
Blacksword wrote:
As George Carlin said regarding all those people who want to 'save the planet' the planet is fine, it's the people who are f***ed. |
George Carlin was an assh*le, and a very angry little man by the end of his brilliant career.
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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manofmystery
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Posted: November 24 2015 at 23:51 |
I'll still be here, you'll all be gone
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Time always wins.
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MusicFreak
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Posted: November 25 2015 at 03:35 |
tszirmay wrote:
dr wu23 wrote:
The aliens will land long before then and usher us into a golden age. |
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The aliens are among us without being noticed, people don't have a clue about it.
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"Nothing will change for the better on earth until there is a fundamental change in the very nature of human consciousness." (JKrishnamurti)
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