What will happen to humankind? (serious)

by ScoobySnax 39 Replies latest jw friends

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  Guest 77
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  dmouse

  Three possibilities

  1. We will enhance and control our evolution eventually becoming immortal all-powerful gods.

  2. We will destroy ourselves.

  3. The Universe will destroy us.

  I say we've got a one in three chance of making it to the next millenium intact.
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  Shakita

  This is what concerns me.
  

  Table of Global Nuclear Weapons Stockpiles, 1945-2002
  Notes

  End Year	US	SU	UK	FR	CH	Total
  1945	6	--	--	--	--	6
  1946	11	--	--	--	--	11
  1947	32	--	--	--	--	32
  1948	110	--	--	--	--	110
  1949	235	1	--	--	--	236
  1950	369	5	--	--	--	374
  1951	640	25	--	--	--	665
  1952	1,005	50	--	--	--	1,055
  1953	1,436	120	1	--	--	1,557
  1954	2,063	150	5	--	--	2,218
  1955	3,057	200	10	--	--	3,267
  1956	4,618	426	15	--	--	5,059
  1957	6,444	660	20	--	--	7,124
  1958	9,822	869	22	--	--	10,713
  1959	15,468	1,060	25	--	--	16,553
  1960	20,434	1,605	30	--	--	22,069
  1961	24,111	2,471	50	--	--	26,632
  1962	27,297	3,322	205	--	--	30,823
  1963	29,249	4,238	280	--	--	33,767
  1964	30,751	5,221	310	4	1	36,287
  1965	31,642	6,129	310	32	5	38,118
  1966	31,700	7,089	270	36	20	39,105
  1967	30,893	8,339	270	36	25	39,563
  1968	28,884	9,399	280	36	35	38,633
  1969	26,910	10,538	308	36	50	37,841
  1970	26,119	11,643	280	36	75	38,153
  1971	26,365	13,092	220	45	100	39,822
  1972	27,296	14,478	220	70	130	42,193
  1973	28,335	15,915	275	116	150	44,791
  1974	28,170	17,385	325	145	170	46,195
  1975	27,052	19,055	350	188	185	46,830
  1976	25,956	21,205	350	212	190	47,913
  1977	25,099	23,044	350	228	200	48,920
  1978	24,243	25,393	350	235	220	50,441
  1979	24,107	27,935	350	235	235	52,862
  1980	23,764	30,062	350	250	280	54,706
  1981	23,031	32,049	350	275	330	56,035
  1982	22,937	33,952	335	275	360	57,859
  1983	23,154	35,804	320	280	380	59,938
  1984	23,228	37,431	270	280	415	61,623
  1985	23,135	39,197	300	360	425	63,416
  1986	23,254	40,723	300	355	425	65,056
  1987	23,490	38,859	300	420	415	63,484
  1988	23,077	37,333	300	410	430	61,549
  1989	22,174	35,805	300	410	435	59,124
  1990	21,211	33,417	300	505	430	55,863
  1991	18,306	28,595	300	540	435	48,176
  1992	13,731	25,155	300	540	435	40,161
  1993	11,536	21,101	300	525	435	33,897
  1994	11,012	18,399	250	510	450	30,621
  1995	10,953	14,978	300	500	400	27,131
  1996	10,886	12,085	300	450	400	24,121
  1997	10,829	11,264	260	450	400	23,203
  1998	10,763	10,764	260	450	400	22,637
  1999	10,698	10,451	185	450	400	22,184
  2000	10,615	10,201	185	450	400	21,851
  2001	10,491	9,126	200	350	400	20,567
  2002	10,640	8,600	200	350	400	20,190
  US = United States, SU = Soviet Union/Russia, UK = United Kingdom, FR = France and CH = China

  NOTES

  US warhead estimates exclude a small number of warheads awaiting dismantlement and are accurate to within a few hundred warheads.

  SU/Russian warhead estimates exclude warheads awaiting dismantlement or in reserve status. The total number of intact warheads is estimated to be 18,000.

  UK and French stockpile estimates are believed to be accurate to within a few tens of warheads.

  Chinese warhead estimates are probably not accurate to better than 50 percent, due to the uncertainty in the number of tactical warheads.

  In addition to the above, Israel, India and Pakistan have nuclear arsenals, and South Africa produced six gun-assembly type weapons in the 1980s, but dismantled them in the early-1990s. Estimates of the composition and evolution of the arsenals of Israel, India and Pakistan are extremely difficult to make. Israel may have a stockpile of some 100-200 nuclear weapons, India 30-35, and Pakistan between 24 and 48 nuclear weapons.

  last revised 11.25.02

  http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/nudb/datab19.asp#notes

  also: http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/furanium.asp

  This does not include North Korea which now has nukes, or Iran that is developing them(regardless what they say). The chances of one of these getting into terrorist hands is too high. Where there is a will, there is a way....I think it is only a matter of time, and I just hope that it will be an isolated incident and will not result into an all out global nuclear war. We are too smart for that, aren't we?
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  Flowerpetal

  Since stars are dying all the time and new ones are being reborn, I suppose our sun would die out eventually. There seems to be a cycle of life and death in everything. The weather, things wearing out, living things......so in that aspect I can see humans being the same way..but perhaps being reborn with no memory of our past life? Maybe that is true, but if it isn't, what of humans? Since I love science fiction, I would love to think that space travel would be in our future, and there would be another planet to inhabit. Maybe there are yet undiscovered wormholes (like on Stargate) that we can just step thru a portal and find ourselves somewhere else.

  I have doubts the society has no idea what they're talking about, since they aren't scientists anyway, when they say there is no life on any other planet. Did God give them that information? I believe there might be life elsewhere, where the people didn't mess up so God had to fix things......OR maybe we are the beginning of people on other planets. We messed up, God will fix it, and we will know how to deal with and help other humans? on other planets when they are created...??? This is just all speculation, of course, but that's where my mind goes when I think about things like this.
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  Satanus

  Scoob

  I don't think that i ridiculed the wt in this thread.

  SS
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  funkyderek

  Is it not easier to accept that the relativity of time as a constant, and space as equally infinite, is unmeasurable and un-quantifiable? Its playground stuff like what is the highest number?

  Absolutely. Far, far easier. That doesn't make it correct though. Sometimes the easiest answer isn't the correct one.
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  Flowerpetal

  I don't think that i ridiculed the wt in this thread.

  SS

  I don't think you did either, SS.
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  Phil

  In reality, all we have is the scientists' theoretical evaluation of the status of the universe and it will be in the millions of years. In the meantime, man will have found a way to get the inhabitants off this planet and head for a destination somewhere in the universe which they have not as yet discovered. By then, all the belief systems will be more well defined and will probably no longer exist as we know them today.
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  ScoobySnax

  hmmmm.....some interesting points...... I still wonder though.......
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  IronGland

  All creatures have an instinctual fear of death and try to escape when confronted with it. Humans are unique in that we can visualise our own death in the future. The despair we feel is that fight or flight emotion kicking in over something we cant control yet. Its just a glitch in the programming. It's the price we pay for having a large frontal lobe that can conceptualise abstract things like 'future'.