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The End of Humanity
| View Poll Results: What could cause the end of humanity on earth? | |||
| Massive solar flare to blow off earth's atmosphere |     | 9 | 24.32% |
| Far away giant gamma ray burst |    | 1 | 2.70% |
| Swine-flu or bird-flu |    | 5 | 13.51% |
| Other (explain) |    | 22 | 59.46% |
| Voters: 37. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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It's time again to poll the well educated folks at DaniWeb about the possible cause of the end of humanity on earth.
No one died when Clinton lied.
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> This poll will close on 17th Sep 2010 at 16:22
Expecting something to happen then?
> Massive solar flare to blow off earth's atmosphere
Hasn't happened in 3+Bn years, so it seems unlikely to happen in the next week or two.
I doubt the sun has the means to generate the kind of flair which would cause a problem. There are well documented hits from very massive CMEs, and we're still here.
> Far away giant gamma ray burst
Far away ones aren't the problem, they happen every few days.
It's the close up ones which are the problem!
> Swine-flu or bird-flu
No disease yet has had a 100% fatality rate.
It might be a very bad day, but so long as some farmers survive, it won't be curtains for everyone.
Remember, viruses invented jet aircraft to propagate themselves more effectively
> Other (explain)
Most large (to be a big problem) NEO's have been catalogued and are of no immediate cause for concern.
A big comet from the Oort cloud with minimal (or zero) warning seems the most likely contender for true extinction.
Supervolcanoes like Yellowstone would devastate a continent and trash the atmosphere to the point only a few would survive.
Expecting something to happen then?
> Massive solar flare to blow off earth's atmosphere
Hasn't happened in 3+Bn years, so it seems unlikely to happen in the next week or two.
I doubt the sun has the means to generate the kind of flair which would cause a problem. There are well documented hits from very massive CMEs, and we're still here.
> Far away giant gamma ray burst
Far away ones aren't the problem, they happen every few days.
It's the close up ones which are the problem!
> Swine-flu or bird-flu
No disease yet has had a 100% fatality rate.
It might be a very bad day, but so long as some farmers survive, it won't be curtains for everyone.
Remember, viruses invented jet aircraft to propagate themselves more effectively
> Other (explain)
Most large (to be a big problem) NEO's have been catalogued and are of no immediate cause for concern.
A big comet from the Oort cloud with minimal (or zero) warning seems the most likely contender for true extinction.
Supervolcanoes like Yellowstone would devastate a continent and trash the atmosphere to the point only a few would survive.
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Posting Shark
One day while cleaning my bedroom, to my surprise, I found one Fly Agaric and one patch of Psilcoybe growing under my bed! "Do I take the red one or the blue," that was the immediate thought. I felt like a blue, so I just threw the whole patch in an omelet I happened to be cooking on a hotplate on my bed. Ate it.
Heard a knock at the door. GOTO FRONTDOOR. LOOK. GET PACKAGE. OPEN PACKAGE. I had recieved 800mg of DMT and an ounce of a White Widow/White Rhino mix. New immediate thought was, "Lets smoke it!"
The scene leading from the last paragraph involves allot of floating around in a sphere, massive metropolitan areas patterned as labyrinths, imagining myself as ruler of this place, enslavement, and then everything flickering away due to my ego.
Yep, everyone and everything is going to disappear as soon as I imagine it.
lol
Heard a knock at the door. GOTO FRONTDOOR. LOOK. GET PACKAGE. OPEN PACKAGE. I had recieved 800mg of DMT and an ounce of a White Widow/White Rhino mix. New immediate thought was, "Lets smoke it!"
The scene leading from the last paragraph involves allot of floating around in a sphere, massive metropolitan areas patterned as labyrinths, imagining myself as ruler of this place, enslavement, and then everything flickering away due to my ego.
Yep, everyone and everything is going to disappear as soon as I imagine it.
lol "Jedenfalls bin ich überzeugt, daß der Alte nicht würfelt."
"I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us." -Two geniuses named Albert
"I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us." -Two geniuses named Albert
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humanity will be reduced to scavaging and cannibalism. roving bands of blood cults will enslave others as catamites. women will be subjected to birthing babies as a food source.
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Originally Posted by sneekula 
It's time again to poll the well educated folks at DaniWeb about the possible cause of the end of humanity on earth.
The world will end in 2038 when the "real" millenium-bug hits.
The vast majority of embedded systems (which are designed to stay in place for decades) do not use a 64 bit integer to store time (In seconds since the UNIX epoch on 1/1/1970) and will overflow, leading to errors.
The problem is that most of these systems are mission-critical systems usually in an embedded role, meaning it will be hard to rectify this problem.
The vast majority of embedded systems (which are designed to stay in place for decades) do not use a 64 bit integer to store time (In seconds since the UNIX epoch on 1/1/1970) and will overflow, leading to errors.
The problem is that most of these systems are mission-critical systems usually in an embedded role, meaning it will be hard to rectify this problem.
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Sooner or later some engineers will manage to create a smart robot. Smart enough to consider humans as a pest.
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The world will end in 2038 when the "real" millenium-bug hits.
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Originally Posted by jbennet
The world will end in 2038 when the "real" millenium-bug hits.
The vast majority of embedded systems (which are designed to stay in place for decades) do not use a 64 bit integer to store time (In seconds since the UNIX epoch on 1/1/1970) and will overflow, leading to errors.
The problem is that most of these systems are mission-critical systems usually in an embedded role, meaning it will be hard to rectify this problem.
No one died when Clinton lied.
>>This poll will close on 17th Sep 2010 at 16:22
or now it's 2010 ???? I can remember something on 2009 and something on
2012.
I can say one thing that those floks will never show up their face in TV after the
2012 , he he heh. world will run , without even us. May be you will die on 2012 but it's not the end of man kind.
So try hard and learn , work or do whatever you have to do.
Time is money and money is time. That's it.
or now it's 2010 ???? I can remember something on 2009 and something on
2012.
I can say one thing that those floks will never show up their face in TV after the
2012 , he he heh. world will run , without even us. May be you will die on 2012 but it's not the end of man kind.
So try hard and learn , work or do whatever you have to do.
Time is money and money is time. That's it.
Nothing like a kernel pannic !
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