The Year is 2800

Henry Plainview wrote: Now, if you had a time machine, would you rather go into the future and find out, or travel into the past? I think I'd rather see the future, although if I could only go once I might use it to hang out with Jesus.

You might want to take your own nails - those Roman ones could give you tetanus and that could kill you.

Henry Plainview wrote: Now, if you had a time machine, would you rather go into the future and find out, or travel into the past? I think I'd rather see the future, although if I could only go once I might use it to hang out with Jesus.

 

Did any body see the old Sci Fi movie...........Soylent Green ?

Matthew T wrote: Did any body see the old Sci Fi movie...........Soylent Green ?

 

I have no idea what will happen. But one thing is for sure: there will still be a f**king DFS sale on.

Im sure life on this planet will be divided into two social differences, the very rich and powerful and the poor surfs.  For the poor surfs, I can see many local communities being overrun by gangs and lawless crime lords. While the rich elite keep the poor poorer by continuing to implement communist ideologies.  

As far as other planets are concerned, yes other planets.  I can see those new colonies breaking away from the motherland, i.e. earth, in rebellion.  Fighting for freedom.  

I vote for the first option.

If I make it that far, I'll let you know. 

A lot of you don't have much optimism and dare I say foresight. Have humans not shown themselves to be pretty resourceful? We're not talking 50 years in the future, here, but 790 years.

What catastrophic event can we think of that might kills us off:

1. Nuclear holocaust/winter

Even in the 70s and 80s, I doubt we actually would have killed ourselves off, at the height of all the brinksmanship. Even if the superpowers died off, there's no way all people would die off, unless somehow the earth could not recover from the nuclear holocaust, which I find even sillier--the earth is more resilient, though it might have taken more than 790 years to recover. I don't know. The real issue would be that loss of information if most people died. Could the less cultured people that might survive (because 3rd world countries are less likely to be the targets of nuclear war) be able to rebuild society as it was? How much of a setback would we suffer, and would our reconstructed world be the same? Those are the real questions.

2. Genetic supervirus

I know this is an issue, but I'm not to qualified to explain it well. But it seems to me that this would leave the least non-human damage in these scenarios, so the surviving humans would be able to pick up after the dead are gone with some ease. I think this is more targeted toward races and nationalities than the human race as a whole. I'm not sure if it would kill us all.

3. Asteroid collision

This is interesting. It's very unlikely we'd even be on a course to be hit by an asteroid in 790 years, let alone one that could wipe out all life on the earth. Let's understand that humans, even if they are not resourceful enough to stop the asteroid collision, then they sure are resourceful enough to have a few of them survive one. That is, unless, it's massive enough to knock the earth out of orbit, send it spinning to fast, break off a large enough chunk of it, or to crack it into halves. Then we'd have to alter its course, and I think we'd be given a heads up of hundreds or at least tens of years on the trajectory of an asteroid to be able to rally resources to at least give it a shot.

4. Climate change

There's no way we are doing enough damage to the earth whereby all humanity could not survive the consequences. Simple as that. If 99% of us die out in all of these scenarios, the rest of that 1% will make it work. Maybe we'll be a different species in millions of years after the fact in these scenarios, but we'll have survived. Never underestimate us.

And it's practically impossible to thing on a small scale what we would have done to ourselves. I imagine in less than 50 years many people in wealthy countries will have some sort of artificial chip/augmentation implanted in them. In a few hundred years why wouldn't we have at least been to Mars? And in 500 years how can we think of not being practically half-computer after birth? Think of the rate of technological advance. Suppose there's a backlash against integrating people and implants, etc in 200 years. Don't you think that the backlash would have been overcome in 300 years? No? Think about 400, 500, 600? It seems silly to me to think this wouldn't happen. Where were we 500 years ago? We can all imagine. Now think of 500 years from now at the rate of technological advance. We will be on the moon and Mars, and will have at least tried to terraform Mars (maybe it hasn't worked for some reason) but there's no reason to suppose we could try to do it in 500 years.

790 years, people.

Yes, we'll survive, but the capitalists won't