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- capheine, on 11/09/2009, -2/+26When it comes to ways humans will be wiped out, extinction events are so much more boring than zombie apocalypses. You can't hit extinction events in the face with a cricket bat, for starters.
- PowderedToasty, on 11/09/2009, -1/+11Is that a serious question?
- Hetman, on 11/09/2009, -1/+6I personally believe so. If you do not like it though do not have to have kids or really even try to allow them human species to survive. Do what you like.
- WinWinWin, on 11/09/2009, -3/+81. Off-world colonization.
Yeah, as earth gets remodeled, we can go stay someplace else.
Makes me wonder how many times humans or some derivative of our kind have had to relocate to a different planet because we either outgrew our previous one or it outgrew us.
You can say it's all crazy talk or take some religious avenue and say that these kinds of ideas defy God's plan, but let me ask you...if you were one of the couple hundred thousand that were lucky enough to relocate to another planet before earth went up in flames would you not take it?
Would you not look back at everything you did and everything you believed with an entirely new perspective and question what the point of all this was?
You can sit there and play your video games, I can sit here and rant on Digg from a cubicle, other people can go start their wars for profit, buy their fast cars, big homes, and watch their reality t.v. etc. and putting so much value on these little things for what...?
You are a spec of dust on another spec of dust inside of a little dust cloud that floats aimlessly in something undefined. There's no excuse for ignorance anymore. We should have much bigger plans, but for some reason it's like we've been dumbed down and don't have any concern about what's really going on. Then again, I suppose that's all a part of the plan. - MissDeFacto, on 11/09/2009, -2/+7Great. The sun's going to consume the earth and the moon and eventually blow up. That's exactly why I'm not contributing to my 401k.
- DagonwebNL, on 11/10/2009, -0/+4There is no "right". It is a asinine observation you make.
A river flows from a mountain, down to the sea, and nowhere is there a dispute on its right to flow back upstream, or 'downstream', or dry up along the bedding. There is no "right" involved anywhere in this question or in the answer. It is a ludicrous use of words, as pointless as asking what is north of the north pole.
A "right" is a contextual social construct created by primates to dictate behavioral parameters, or divide scare goods. The phrase has little or no meaning outside of that context.
Get it in your head - there is no judge or judgement outside of humanity. If we disappear, aeons will be left with chirping woods, rutting animals, mountains ground down to sand, and nothing nothing nothing will happen in all those ages that makes sense to a human. Eternity doesn't "tolerate" us, or "sentence" us. There is only an uncaring anonymous void outside the thoughts of humanity. - EnjoyFailure, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4One of those plans better involve killing a whole mess of space aliens!
- ricker2005, on 11/09/2009, -3/+7If you survive, you deserve to survive.
- mrHexagon, on 11/09/2009, -2/+6More fiber in the diet can help continuity.
- capn1time, on 11/09/2009, -1/+5Nothing is a matter of deserving... we simply do or we don't.
- inactive, on 11/09/2009, -1/+5The problem with movies like 2012 is that "Generation duh!", having been educated in America's wonderful government/union schools, have absolutely ZERO critical thinking skills.
They'll buy into any ***** presented to them in an entertaining way...
...totally incapable of discerning between realistic concerns and ridiculous fear-mongering. - smashTasker, on 11/09/2009, -2/+5To put it simply, we are doomed.
- macmcraeart, on 11/09/2009, -1/+4Not to worry - cusack will probably save us if the FSM decides to press the reset button.
- Langford, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3Not everyone has to survive a disaster for the human race to survive. There are billions of people, and they are all over the place.
- virtorio, on 11/09/2009, -2/+5I'm fine either way.
- daretheninja, on 11/09/2009, -1/+4This reminds me of Titan AE. I really enjoyed it, but probably because i was high.
- rgemmell, on 11/09/2009, -2/+5Yeah, beacuse its not like we have technology or civilization or Morales or great art or great symphonies...
yep nothing we have done has given us the right to survive - spworm, on 11/09/2009, -2/+5Except the people of the galactic confederacy Xenu brought to earth of course.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I'M SO HAPPY! - spworm, on 11/09/2009, -1/+3We could live UNDER THE SEA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgA2xo0HYrE - fety, on 11/09/2009, -1/+3Step 1. Don't let the global elites depopulate us.
- jugglingjon, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2I understand that, but it seems like the challenges of bunkering up and trying to survive something here still pale in comparison to trying to do something similar on another planet.
For example, could we even hope for a colony of a few hundred people on another planet in the next 100 years? But we could probably create a similar underground or undersea colony right now, and get a lot of the same protection.
You're right in that there are certain disasters, ones that I described as destroying the physical mass of the planet, that my ideas would be useless for; because if the Earth were cracked in half, then it wouldn't matter if you were underground or undersea. But those situations aside, we could get a lot of the same protection with colonies here on earth, and it would be a lot easier. - DagonwebNL, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2Yah that is starting to look more and more likely every year.
- DagonwebNL, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2Who other than someone with a guilt complex asks such a question.
Who other than a survivor answers it.
Your question doesn't make sense. There isn't anyone outside of "us" to make a careful analysis. If we go extinct, aeons will pass after us, uncaring of whether or not we did. What few animals which are left will continue, sublimely disinterested, with their brief and pointless lives and not a leaf on a tree will mourn us. We are the only ones with the subjective capacity to reward us with continuity or to sentence us to oblivion. - Cyclist110, on 11/09/2009, -3/+5I wouldn't miss us.
- IphtashuFitz, on 11/09/2009, -2/+4Food is by far the only issue. There are tons of others. Go run into your fallout shelter when a meteor hits the earth. True, you might survive on the stocks of food you have stored, but what will you do when you run out and head outside to look for more food only to find everything is dead because there's no sunlight any more due to all the dust & debris the meteor kicked up into the atmosphere, or even worse you find out your fallout shelter is now below 50 feet of ice because the lack of sunlight has brought about another ice age?
- Lefts, on 11/09/2009, -1/+3I got 30 pieces of flair.
- CrazedLeper, on 11/09/2009, -1/+3Under the sea!
Under the sea!
There'll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans...
under the sea!
</Homer Simpson> - spworm, on 11/09/2009, -1/+3Or the internet might break down for a month, which leads too many people to suicide as they realize how much time they wasted, making comments on top 5 articles inspired by movies we know will be ***** before said movies are even released, but we will still go and see in mass numbers.
- mrHexagon, on 11/09/2009, -1/+3Oh. My bad. If the world is gonna end soon, you better get laid slugger.
- inactive, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2All of these reasons are ineffective. Biological evolution leads to technical evolution and it won't be long until there are only machines but they will still be extensions of human intelligence.
- TsuruchiBrian, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2I'm glad the article didn't just focus only on just "saving the planet", but actually considered what things we can do in preparation for the destruction of our planet.
This subject is typically oozing with wishful thinking.
1. Religious people that think any planet destroying event is actually the apocalypse (yay here comes Jesus)
2. Eco-hippies that don't even want to consider any solution that doesn't involve saving mother Earth.
Our universe is filled with destruction. The other side of our galaxy is currently colliding with another galaxy. We have had a relatively short break in events that caused mass extinctions (65 million years), which is the blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things.
If we are to survive as a species we must eventually transcend earth and eventually our own solar system. Eventually our sun is going to destroy earth, if something else doesn't destroy it first.
All this stuff is way in the future (millions of years?). This still may not be enough time to overcome some pretty big problems. We could put off the problem until later (and probably will), but if we put it off too long, our great^(huge number) grand kids will be pretty pissed that we procrastinated for so long when they discover they only have a couple generations to figure out how to leave Earth.
The nearest star is 4.2 light years away. And the nearest planet that we think MIGHT be habitable orbits a star 15 light years away. This likely means entire generations living and dying aboard gigantic life boats, if we EVER have the technology to travel that far in a "reasonable" (i.e. before the place we are going to is destroyed) amount of time.
Then again, in a million years from now, when it comes time for the biggest test of the human race has ever had, the species called "***** sapien" may very well be unrecognizable to current humans, and may even branch off into other species, in the same way that we and our culture would be unrecognizable to ***** habilis. By that time, "humans" may even have transcended their own organic biology in favor of more durable bodies and brains.
All of our effort may be for the causes of saving robots with digital computer brains that nonetheless contain the thoughts, hopes, and dreams of a different species descended from ours. The whole thing may eventually seem quite pointless as the universe as we know it already preserves information. The only reason to save this particular species on this particular planet being the instinctual drive for survival built into every surviving organism on earth at a time before consciousness even existed. It is not so universally important to survive, it is that only those who happened to cared enough to try and survive (and only a small fraction of those) did, and we are their children, slave to the same drives that made possible our own existence.
This comment gradually turned into my best impression of a NOVA type show on the future of humanity. - Quisquis, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1It is entirely possible to create a self sustaining colony on mars. The only thing stopping us is we lack the will to do it.
- planetidiot, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1someone call the institute for standard scroll bars
- directedition, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1@Marnault22
Yes, there are many such issues that are considered. These are problems that will be addressed with time. By the time we have the technology to colonize other solar systems, I would hope we have efficient ways of getting the resources we need. - cryinlion85, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1mein fuhr! i can walk!
- Golfslugger31, on 11/09/2009, -2/+3That's a pretty philosophical question. uhhh, yeah?!
- directedition, on 11/09/2009, -1/+2In that respect, it is true. A subterranean colony would save lives from most natural distasters and should be explored. Now I just need to buy myself one of those nuclear missile silo homes.
http://www.silohome.com/id22.htm#house_view_with_p ... - DagonwebNL, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1Actually there *is* an institute for human continuity and a pretty serious one at that
http://lifeboat.com/ex/main - Parrappa, on 11/09/2009, -3/+4Absolutely. We're the most technologically advanced race to ever walk the earth.
- Marnault22, on 11/09/2009, -1/+2I would guess the dinosaurs didn't think they were going anywhere either... we could disappear just as easily as they did. In a million years from now there is a very high probability that the earth will still be here, unfortunately I don't think we can say the same for humanity, but there is hope.
- happyimbecile, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1Yeah, those genius dinosaurs, how could THEY not survive with all their amazing technological accomplishments and scientific understanding?
- fragomatik, on 11/09/2009, -1/+2Shakespeare says it best in Hamlet:
"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how
infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and
admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like
a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet,
to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me—
nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so." - Marnault22, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1Major off-world colonization is defiantly within the realm of possibility, but defiantly not with our current technology, or even in the foreseeable future. We may get a small scientific colony of less than 100 people or so setup in the near future, but they would be dependent on supplies from earth, and it wouldn't be the random public up there, but scientists probably on a rotating schedule similar to how ISS is now, just on a larger scale.
- Quisquis, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1but technological evolution is not inexorable. it is guided by self aware beings. I'm not saying it won't occur, merely that how it occurs will be directed in the manner we would like it to be.
- Shadowgrace, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1I don't believe anything will happen in 2012, but if something does happen I hope REAL 'natural selection' takes place ;) In the coming years I can see businesses getting some money by poking at people fears with the 'end'.
Going to the moon sounds ridiculous. - happyimbecile, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1The eskimos won't even notice, so ha!
- Quisquis, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1"The other side of our galaxy is currently colliding with another galaxy."
errr... [citation needed]
The nearest galaxy is the Large Magellanic Cloud. It's 48.5kpc away, or 158,000 light years away. It's not crashing into us.
The Andromeda galaxy is going to eventually collide with us, but it's going to be a bit(around 3 billion years)...
I would also venture to say that assuming we are currently the only sentient species in existence, there is a value to survival if for no other reason than we could encourage other sentient species to evolve in places where there is life of some sort already. - tsmallm, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1I hate whoever designed this website.
- DagonwebNL, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1I can valk!
- evergrim, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1Sure like there aren't underground military bunkers designed for leaders see: Dr Strangelove.
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