What Will Be Living on Earth 5000 Years From Now? (1 Viewer)

[Bob McLaughlin]

1. Humans
2. Stuff that humans allow to live
3. Stuff that just can't be eradicated by humans

 

[Edwin-S]

And if neither is true...well.......then they're just two old classics worth a listen.

 

[Cees Alons]

Originally Posted by Steve_Tk

Looking at our history, and where we are today, I don't see how anyone could argue that humans will still be here in 5000 years without a drastic change for the better over the next 1000 years

You must be looking at another history than the actual one.

Humans like us are on this earth for about 3 million years at least. So 5000 years means absolutely nothing: "we" will still be there.

Or are you referring to our current culture(s)? Indeed, the way we live currently is not much older than roughly 5000-3000 years, or so, and will possibly have changed considerably after another 5000 years.

It took many more years however to even let the Dinosaurs all die. So, the answer to the question "What Will Be Living on Earth 5000 Years From Now?" is, IMO: most probably humans.

How they will be living is another matter indeed.


Cees

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

The Earth's poles are almost ready to invert again.

Will they play Chopin?

 

[Ruz-El]

Supposedly the earths magnetic poles are always moving around, so when they "flip", not much will happen.

The great thing is, WE HAVE THE POWER TO EXTINCT OURSELVES! It's something like, 10% of the worlds total nuclear/bio weapons will cause enough damage to extinct humans. So the rats and cockroaches would rule, and have modified forced evolutions due to radioactive mutations! Dare to dream!!

Even not barring us killing ourselves off wholesale, statistically we'll go extinct anyways. The dominate species always goes extinct eventually no? Not likely to happen in 3000-5000 years though I wouldn't think. But who knows! We're one meteorite away from Deadsville (and sadly, Michael Bay lied, there's no way to prevent a massive meteorite from smashing the earth if one ends up coming our way) that's also a statistical enevitability.

There's two sides to the human evolution thing. Science is inhibiting natural evolution because of eye glasses and what not. At the same time, it's forcing evolution the same way dog breeders can force evolution of animals. Richard Dawkins talks about Russians breeding Foxes to be domestic, and within 20 generations (or years, I forget which), they started looking like dogs as opposed to foxes. Who know what we'll be like with science modifying us! Clones, introducing enzymes to make our brains work better, or to spruce up our immunity... could be awesome!

Or could make us all extinct faster... aw well, you only live once, might as will see what happens!