How would you like to survive the near end of humanity?
337198
- Alien Attack/invasion/Genocide and enslavement of the Human race\n\nGood Socialogical experiment.  It would be interesting to be part of the study.
600664
By then most people will agree that mankind will not be around. That is not the pessimists but now the optimists too. The question is how will this eventual demise arise? That will determine what the state of of the Earth will be in 1000 years. If the 'War on Terror' ends in nuclear holocaust then the Earth will be a barren land much similar to Mars is today. If global warming catches up with us then we will be in the middle of another Ice Age.\nThe alternative is that we humans, against all odds, do survive. In that case we will be living in a civilisation that is either as close to total anarchy as we can get without destroying ourselves or we will be in totalitarian state of control. Either way the future was stolen from our hands a long long time ago.
471877
I WANNA LIVE FOREVER!!!!!!!!! I want to see what the world looks like in year 3000. But if it has to be an age 101. Hopefully I have all my wits about me and know where I am at.
986970
*Shrug* Depends on your beliefs. Do you believe in God and an Apococlypse? Do you believe that the current state of affairs in the world is so f^#$ed up that we'll either blow ourselves to pieces, die of disease, over-population, crop failure, or poisoned water before our grandchildren are born? \n\nThe answer is we don't really know. It depends on how wise we become in the next few generations, and whether we (meaning, humanity) can get our enviormental pollution, war-mongering, and population growth under control. Hypothetically speaking our planet won't be destroyed until the sun becomes a red giant in approximately 4.5 to 5 billion years. So humanity, if it never developed space travel, could last that long. But unless major changes are made in the coming fifty to one hundred and fifty years, we may well be facing yet another mass extinction of life on earth (this wouldn't be the first major extinction...).
1167812
How would we know? I am not gonna stay alove for a million years, neither will you. I don't mean to be arrogant, but honestly why should we care. I say live by the moment. Focus on what you are doing NOW. But if you really want an answer, I think now. You know what, it won't be the sun or a black hole that destroys us, it will be the human race, and maybe natural disasters. Look at the wars, we are killing eachother! In the past year earthquakes and tsunamis have outbroken wiping out even more of our civilizatiopn. We are only destroying ourselves.
1060028
You have to live for this moment.\n\nRight here.\n\n\nRight now.\n\n\nRight here.\n\n\nRight now.
415205
Settle down at Moon. or Dig 100 meters down the earth construct a room there. Go to underground well before the nuclear attack. You are safe.
727739
first of all we'd need a little over 8 minutes to notice it had disappeared, after it had disappeared.\n\nthen it would be night time for all\n\ntemperatures would start falling. And instead of rising again with the next sunrise, they would continue falling.  Pretty soon even hot regions would reach negative temperatures.  Which would take its toll on plants, animals, and human beings (just imagine huge shantytowns w/o any heating, millions of human beings).\n\nin the richer world, and where we have seasons, we'd turn on the heating and make do.  It would not be fun living in the dark all the time, but people North of the North Pole do it in the winter, and they survive.  And Canadians, Fins, are organised to take very cold temperatures for extented periods of time.\n\nStill, many major cities would quickly suffer huge numbers of deaths (for how long can you overheat enough buildings in, say, Paris, until you run out of fuel, or the temperature difference with the ouside is such that your buildings are not well insulated enough?)\n\nWith panick, despair, and permanent night, we'd obviously soon seen riots, looting, all those things.\n\nPretty soon most plant life would die off.  And as a result most animal life would die off also.\n\nGovernments would probably then work on plans to shelter a number of people underground (see Armageddon for examples of how to try to do it).\n\nOnce you'd have people in shelters, you could dig down further hoping to get some heat from the Earth's core.\n\nBut.\n\nBut after a while, with plant life having largely disappeared altogether, we'd face huge food shortages, starting from a few months after the disaster.\n\nEven rats, or insects, need to be fed something...\n\nSo I'm not sure that much of Mankind would be left alive after at best a couple years.  Of course you could pick a rather limited number of "Survivors", and park them in some large, comfortable shelter, with a lot of canned food, and they could last for some years.\n\nMaybe we'd find some plants that really don't need any light and we could grow them for food?\n\nIt would be tough, for sure.  Remember, in the short-lived (couple months) "nuclear winters" caused by all the dust being blown up in the atmosphere by meteorite impacts, on each of the 5 mass extinctions life on Earth has seen, anywhere between 75%, and 90%, of the species disappeared...
1154881
Well, it depends on your definition of "end." Are you referring to when humans can't live here anymore? Do you mean when the planet itself is utterly disintegrated? Are you referring to a Biblical apocalypse?\n\nTo any of these conditions, no one can say. However, to the first one listed, our continued destruction of the environment continues to lead to more polluted air, ground, and water. And, while the melting of the ice caps will raise water a great deal and wipe out coastal cities and land, it certainly can't cover the entire planet. Stubborn as humans are, we'll probably find some way to survive through technology if we mess things up that badly, which would be extremely sad to have destroyed such beauty. We also might start a nuclear war that kills everything but cockroaches, but the planet itself would still be here. \n\nCondition two, where the planet is disintegrated, could be brought about by several ways, as well. A large comet, asteroid, or meteor might smash into earth, breaking it apart and causing it to no longer technically be a planet. When the sun finally goes nova (estimated to be 5 billion years away), if it reaches this far out, which his possible, it would swallow the earth, likely blowing it to bits. Then there's always the "Hitchhiker's Guide" route, where we'll be destroyed for an intergalactic highway.\n\nAs for the Bible, only the Father knows. Not even Christ knows when it'll happen. People have been incorrectly interpreting the signs for hundreds of years, so all the tabloid doomsday people are probably just as wrong now.\n\nIn short, no one can see the future, and you're right. We don't take good care of our planet. We really should appreciate it more while we still have a planet to enjoy! Who knows, tomorrow someone might throw a nuke, so go out and enjoy earth! And just in case someone doesn't start World War III, go and take care of it, too, so that generations far into the future can look back on this time and say, "Wow, look at all they did for their children and their children's children," instead of, "How on earth could they be so selfish and uncaring?"
315334
As I don't believe anything more than the worms is waiting for us, I'd be happy to postpone 'that dreadful day' as long as possible. Even if it meant repeatedly seeing my loved ones die... But not if I was condemned to live forever in pain (this question often seems to presume that you wouldn't). So actually, I'd like to 'live forever' in the sense that nothing or nobody else could kill me, but I'd like to be able to reserve the right myself to kill myself.
843987
NO.\nCould be end of times for humans but not for Earth.
244380
Bury the bombs...put information and instructions in a taped memory bank...Ach! my hand!!! doomsday device...
517632
I will survive!\n\nlol
724375
Standing together is the only option for the human race to survive, whether aliens attack us or not. Even now we are attacked by viruses and by the man-made pollution and other man-made and corrupt belief-systems and socio-economic systems. \n\nWe are erecting walls among us and fighting over petty issues. it seems we humans are very slow to learn.
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How will you keep warm?\nIt will be lonely without other people, including women.\nYou need to work on modular housing for atmospheric-interior pressure differentials.\nYou need to know where the water is located and how to get a handle on it.\nYou need energy source(s).\nYou need entirely new clothing and suit for outdoors.\nYou need a food supply and a plan for replenishment.\nWhat is most valuable or needed will not be known for sure until people gain experience by living there.\nLots of people will also need a Doctor/Surgeon.\nYou will need to visit Finland first.\nYou will need to know sub-surface temperatures, have a piping engineer, a construction engineer (specialized).\nShould you live underground? How far? What about meteorites?\nHow best to make use of existing terrain? Needs a very old geologist with lots of experience everywhere.\nWhat about people who become criminals or go nuts? You need to be able to send them back to earth...the alternatives are not pretty.\nYou need lots of energy-efficient bio-friendly lighting, especially to avoid depression.\nSame for plants -- which ones? Some colorful veggies and flowers, for sure.\nSo you will also need gardeners, horticulturist.\nYou will need excavating equipment that operates in this environment.\nWhat kind of transportation is best for Mars??????\n\nJust a start, but if you do not think of these things first, you will have trapped yourself in a place worse than Earth, though that may be hard to imagine until you consider the matter.\n\nShould weapons be allowed or banned?\nHow will the community be governed?\nDemocracy would apply to some things, in other cases the person who knows must be dictator, lest unforgiving mistakes result.\n\nMany things we take for granted here will need constant monitoring. More recycling necessary, less garbage.\n\nWhat about long distance transport, need aircraft adapted to Martian atmospheric conditions.\n\nThis all has to grow for many, many years before it will approach self-sustaining. Meanwhile, without planet Earth to call on for help...\n\nVisit Biosphere and Antarctica before you decide
148944
Darling don't dance around the question it was in you to ask it. Now be courageous and ask it. otherwise the collective wisdom of this forum won't really help. Now what do you want to know?\n\nI'll say that the expiration of life from this world does not terminate your existence.
236974
I think a more pertanant question would be are YOU ready for the world to end?