The Shrine

I was actually reading about #1 the other day, it is inevitable, hopefully in 5 billion years people will be able to live in space!

We've got another 2.5 billion years on the sun don't we? I can't remember, but I'm not worrying about it for at LEAST another billion.

Scenario #1 will not happen. Our sun is too small to supernova. It will become a red giant as they describe, but it won't explode.

Most of these aren't what I'd call "overlooked," since they're trotted out whenever the subject comes up. A more interesting list would be the most likely causes of extinction, but coming up with likelihoods will be hard.

I think the most likely cause would be due to infertility caused by continuous release of kilotons of poisons into the water and atmosphere.

That or a nanotechnology disaster, of course =P

Yeah, that particle accelerator one (#2) is talked about every freakin' time they run one of those tests. And how many disaster films have we had about volcanos? Overlooked my ass

Zeus wrote:Overlooked my ass

I hate to agree with Zeus... but I agree with Zeus

Tessian wrote:

Zeus wrote:Overlooked my ass

I hate to agree with Zeus... but I agree with Zeus

As you should more often :-)

Also, if you take another look at my ass you'll have to answer to my wife.

I saw this thing about how in today's age nothing can be 'underrated' or similarly 'overlooked' because everyone and their brother has a blog about how something is underrated/overlooked and then it is no longer underrated/overlooked by definition.

And I've seen most of these mentioned in common doomsdays top 10 lists.

Okay, okay, do we really expect top quality journalism from askmen.com?

Shrinweck wrote:Okay, okay, do we really expect top quality journalism from askmen.com?

Was that wrong? Should I have not done that?