What do you see as the ultimate destiny of the human race?

_John_
_John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
edited November 8 in Chit-Chat
Are we destined to be the universe's ultimate life form or are we just a species which will see our evolutionary window come and go as many dominant species have?
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  • PurringMyrrh
    PurringMyrrh Posts: 5,276 Member
    The latter, without a doubt.
  • The_Enginerd
    The_Enginerd Posts: 3,982 Member
    Who says we are the dominant species? ;)
  • SubZeroDude
    SubZeroDude Posts: 1,519 Member
    Solipsist, so youre just a figment of my own creation that i have yet to control.


    Solipsism FTW
  • Sinistrous
    Sinistrous Posts: 5,589 Member
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  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    _John_ wrote: »
    Are we destined to be the universe's ultimate life form or are we just a species which will see our evolutionary window come and go as many dominant species have?
    The window will close.

    With a whimper, not a bang.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    The_Enginerd wrote: »
    Who says we are the dominant species? ;)

    well, there is argument that dolphins are smarter than we are, but they are ill equipped to do anything with their intelligence.

  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    Bacteria are the dominant species.
    http://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate

    I figure if we survive the next thirty years as a species then perhaps we will achieve solar-system dominance. As for the rest of the universe, what wonders are left to be discovered?
  • Rixx31
    Rixx31 Posts: 220 Member
    "I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

    - Kurt Vonnegut
  • Hockey_Winger
    Hockey_Winger Posts: 1,164 Member
    Three words: Honey Boo Boo

    For that: We Are Doomed

  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    Hockey_Winger wrote: »
    Three words: Honey Boo Boo

    For that: We Are Doomed

    Luckily, WE are stronger than our weakest links...

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  • sullus
    sullus Posts: 2,839 Member
    ZooksBrah wrote: »
    Solipsist, so youre just a figment of my own creation that i have yet to control.


    Solipsism FTW

    Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?

    Our ultimate destiny is; fertilizer for whatever comes next.
  • Of_Monsters_and_Meat
    Of_Monsters_and_Meat Posts: 1,022 Member
    Please think about subjugation to our great overloads, and elder things.
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    The sun will eventually burn out. This planet will become inhospitable to the current life form.
  • mabug01
    mabug01 Posts: 1,273 Member
    We will eventually go, but I hope I'm not here to see it. Don't want to end up like the guy sitting on the steps to the library and his glasses break.
  • QuiznatoddBidness
    QuiznatoddBidness Posts: 602 Member
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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I think that evolutionary window is already closing...and closing fairly rapidly.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    edited November 2014
    I think we will travel the cosmos, creating outposts on far off lands, only to abandon all exploration and all come back to our home planet at the moment it is destroyed by a predictable event. But, just before, we will send a little boy (with no food or rations) to a distant planet that we all ourselves could have lived on in the hopes the he will carry on our race.

    We will not question why we just sent one boy, and not a party with many members of the two sexes to ensure a breading colony could be established.

    Also, this will be a place where the radiation is such that our cells will be much stronger and we would all be physically like "gods" to them.

  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    _John_ wrote: »
    I think we will travel the cosmos, creating outposts on far off lands, only to abandon all exploration and all come back to our home planet at the moment it is destroyed by a predictable event. But, just before, we will send a little boy (with no food or rations) to a distant planet that we all ourselves could have lived on in the hopes the he will carry on our race.

    We will not question why we just sent one boy, and not a party with many members of the two sexes to ensure a breading colony could be established.

    Also, this will be a place where the radiation is such that our cells will be much stronger and we would all be physically like "gods" to them.

    Hmmmm...that sounds strangely familiar...oh well, it'll come to me

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  • wilsoncl6
    wilsoncl6 Posts: 1,280 Member
    Likely destroy ourselves before the robots get a chance to.
  • nadnerb61
    nadnerb61 Posts: 248 Member
    I'm afraid that the selfish side of humanity is gaining too much momentum, and the commandment to love one another is being practiced by fewer and fewer people. We are becoming so "thing" oriented, and so less people-centered, that will be our undoing. Look around at a restaurant. We're becoming addicted to the very thing I'm communicating to you with! Family of four, each self-absorbed in electronic reality, to their very own detriment.
  • The_Enginerd
    The_Enginerd Posts: 3,982 Member
    _John_ wrote: »
    Hockey_Winger wrote: »
    Three words: Honey Boo Boo

    For that: We Are Doomed

    Luckily, WE are stronger than our weakest links...
    President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho disagrees.

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  • EddieHaskell97
    EddieHaskell97 Posts: 2,227 Member
    Ultimate destiny? There's only one possibility: extinction.
  • Blacklance36
    Blacklance36 Posts: 755 Member
    Cyborgs.
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  • emdeesea
    emdeesea Posts: 1,823 Member
    So you know how cancer kills its host? The cancer cells proliferate until there is no more room. The cells take up all the resources until they eventually kill the host organism.

    I see human beings as the cancer. We're eating up everything, using up all our resources, killing everything else in the process.

  • PurringMyrrh
    PurringMyrrh Posts: 5,276 Member
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  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    emdeesea wrote: »
    So you know how cancer kills its host? The cancer cells proliferate until there is no more room. The cells take up all the resources until they eventually kill the host organism.

    I see human beings as the cancer. We're eating up everything, using up all our resources, killing everything else in the process.
    So would "apoptosis" on a large scale be within your suggestion for a cure to mother earth's cancer?
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