I don't believe in the 2012 nonsense, or any of these "prophecies". Wasn't the world supposed to end sometime in 2003 or any previous years? Gee, look at how that turned out.
We will, and have gotten somewhat more robust, but not via evolution, but via medical science and general improvements in living standards. We really are the same as we were a quarter of a million years ago, just more clothed.![]()
I think it'd be kind of cool if humans someday got powers. I know it's a stretch but hey, a lot of weird things have happened with our race. For all we know, we'll evolve & look totally different than we do now. I think something major will happen with the human race as millions of years pass by. That's just my two cents.
Unless the laws of physics change or we are touched by some magical force, I wouldn't expect anything close to 'superpowers' to happen, unless you are talking about things outside of evolution, like technology.
Unless the laws of physics change or we are touched by some magical force, I wouldn't expect anything close to 'superpowers' to happen, unless you are talking about things outside of evolution, like technology.
I just want to know what you all think: Will the world come to an end?
Personally, I don't believe in all of the nonsense that "points" to the end of the world. If it does end though, it just ends. The end of the universe, however, just sounds ridiculous altogether.
The world isnt going to end in 2012.
See, Im kinda psychic, and I had a premonition that when 2012 comes around, a wholy bevy of hot sexy po%n stars are going to bust into my room and b%st my n#t four times.
Oh yeah.
I don't even know what that means, but no one is so advanced that they become immune to death.I don't believe in either of them, we're too advanced to just die out.
Uhm...if that happens as you state it here (i.e., that humans will universally make the evolutionary transition into another species), then the human species will, in fact, have died out.I don't believe in either of them, we're too advanced to just die out. And no, just because other species have died out means we will as well. For all we know, evolution could end up playing a major role in what happens to our race. We could become a totally new species or become smarter, stronger, etc. You never know, a lot of things have happened that were first deemed impossible. I'm not ruling out the possibility of humans having powers just yet because as I've said before, anything can happen.
Vegeta_1000 doesn't believe that the sun will eventually (in billions of years) rapidly expand and engulf/destroy earth, or wipe out life on the planet either...even though all known observation and evidence points toward that event occurring.Let's not confuse the end of the world with the end of human existance, people.
We won't be around to see it. Hundreds of millions of years is pushing it. Sharks and dinosaurs had a nice long reign, but history shows that most species dies out within a few million years or less. To think man kind is to advanced and will never die out is just ludicrous.Vegeta_1000 doesn't believe that the sun will eventually (in billions of years) rapidly expand and engulf/destroy earth, or wipe out life on the planet either...even though all known observation and evidence points toward that event occurring.![]()
That's what I believe, too. What we'd likely see long before the sun actually goes into its death throes is a gradual and sustained heating of our atmosphere, leading to potential selective pressures that will severely alter our planet's biodiversity.We won't be around to see it. Hundreds of millions of years is pushing it. Sharks and dinosaurs had a nice long reign, but history shows that most species dies out within a few million years or less. To think man kind is to advanced and will never die out is just ludicrous.
I heard that in a 24 hour time scale, the sun was creted at midnight and will blow up at the next midnight. We are at six a.m. So, we got time. But like I said, we will be long gone by the time that happens, and Earth won't resemble what it looks like today.
That's a good point. But it won't save us from the inevitable.We're approaching a point where we can fully and intentionally engineer ourselves on a genetic level. Again, we're not invincible, but until some other species is (or is found to have been at one point in time) capable of such feats, such a comparison is a bit removed from reality.
Totally...whatever that may be. I don't have a friggin' clue.That's a good point. But it won't save us from the inevitable.
If I had to guess...I'd say that the Earth will undergo some major changes that we and a good percentage of the species on the planet will be unable to adapt too. In the new Earth new species will flourish and if you were able to take a time machine millions of years into the future you would not recognize the world around. This is just a guess howver, based on too many hours in front of the Discovery channel.Totally...whatever that may be. I don't have a friggin' clue.![]()
Uhm...if that happens as you state it here (i.e., that humans will universally make the evolutionary transition into another species), then the human species will, in fact, have died out.![]()
You're not really making any sense, in that regard. We would no longer be humans.
I don't even know what that means, but no one is so advanced that they become immune to death.