Discussion
It's Friday... which got me thinking: what does the next thousand years hold for Earth?
Will people live in some amazing technological future, or will humans no longer exist at all?
Will various 'poor choices' mean that life looks more like it did back in 1017 - with a similar global population to back then too - or will Earth simply be one of a number of bases for huge, inter-galactic human race?
Will people live in some amazing technological future, or will humans no longer exist at all?
Will various 'poor choices' mean that life looks more like it did back in 1017 - with a similar global population to back then too - or will Earth simply be one of a number of bases for huge, inter-galactic human race?
We'll either have:
A) died out (unlikely, as we've lasted this far)
B) had the global population drastically reduced by war/famine/disease to previously sustainable levels.
C) colonised other planets or developed other off-Earth ways of living.
We've got to. There simply isn't enough room at the inn.
A) died out (unlikely, as we've lasted this far)
B) had the global population drastically reduced by war/famine/disease to previously sustainable levels.
C) colonised other planets or developed other off-Earth ways of living.
We've got to. There simply isn't enough room at the inn.
Nuclear war, followed by rebuilding of the world from scratch.
Similar to the story played out in the Fallout games
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline
Similar to the story played out in the Fallout games
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline
My gut reaction was that the human race would have eradicated itself. Thinking about it however, as they say, nature always finds a way. I think large portions of the population will have eradicated themselves but fringe groups will be left - people in locations that are deemed to be not worth the effort. Either far enough away from civilization so as to be too much like hard work and avoiding fallout from war or too inhospitable to bother with. In my mind, this would be where the human race would survive.
Either v hot or v cold. Arctic circle, poss Oz etc.
Either v hot or v cold. Arctic circle, poss Oz etc.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
DanielSan said:
I can be certain of one thing, I'll be a fossil in the ground.
Highly unlikely. To be fossilised needs a set of circumstances that are actually very rare. That's why there a so few fossils compared to the numbers of things that have died. Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff