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  • Zigenare
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    Originally posted by GreenMirror View Post
    Humans will be replaced by robots.
    Humans will die out and be replaced by nothing. In time the planet will rid itself of the cancer that is humanity.

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  • Yorkie62
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    Originally posted by GreenMirror View Post
    Humans will be Upgraded to Cybermen.
    FTFY

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  • GreenMirror
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    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    Indeed people often say the world will end when what the really mean is the human race may end - the 'world' is gonna be here for a long time more (another 4.5 billion years before the sun goes red giant and swallows us - obviously that assumes no other catastrophic event happens in the mean time)
    Humans will be replaced by robots.

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  • meridian
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    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    Indeed people often say the world will end when what the really mean is the human race may end - the 'world' is gonna be here for a long time more (another 4.5 billion years before the sun goes red giant and swallows us - obviously that assumes no other catastrophic event happens in the mean time)
    Well, we've finally found something to agree on

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  • original PM
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    Originally posted by meridian View Post
    I've just finished reading a book about the end-Permian mass extinction, and feel strangely comforted by the ability of the Earth to regenerate.

    We won't be here to see it (either individually or as a species), but life will evolve and adapt.
    Indeed people often say the world will end when what the really mean is the human race may end - the 'world' is gonna be here for a long time more (another 4.5 billion years before the sun goes red giant and swallows us - obviously that assumes no other catastrophic event happens in the mean time)

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  • meridian
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    Originally posted by Lance View Post
    I heard this on the radio and immediately thought that this is classic journalistic interpretation of data.

    No insects left in 100 years is just made up nonsense.
    For a start.... evolution....... insects are more adaptable than humans, especially with the generations being so numerous.
    I don't doubt that some highly specialised species will go extinct, but that's a ling way from ALL.
    I've just finished reading a book about the end-Permian mass extinction, and feel strangely comforted by the ability of the Earth to regenerate.

    We won't be here to see it (either individually or as a species), but life will evolve and adapt.

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  • Lance
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'

    The world’s insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems”, according to the first global scientific review.

    More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles. The total mass of insects is falling by a precipitous 2.5% a year, according to the best data available, suggesting they could vanish within a century.

    Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature' | Environment | The Guardian
    I heard this on the radio and immediately thought that this is classic journalistic interpretation of data.

    No insects left in 100 years is just made up nonsense.
    For a start.... evolution....... insects are more adaptable than humans, especially with the generations being so numerous.
    I don't doubt that some highly specialised species will go extinct, but that's a ling way from ALL.

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  • original PM
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    It's ok - we have not discovered most of them yet.

    Undiscovered Species - How Many Left to Find - Current Results

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  • Yorkie62
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    Originally posted by greenlake View Post
    Well, Brexit sure ain't gonna help....

    That's why they are all leaving the planet.

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  • greenlake
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'

    The world’s insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems”, according to the first global scientific review.
    Well, Brexit sure ain't gonna help....

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  • AtW
    started a topic Bugs

    Bugs

    Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'

    The world’s insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems”, according to the first global scientific review.

    More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles. The total mass of insects is falling by a precipitous 2.5% a year, according to the best data available, suggesting they could vanish within a century.

    Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature' | Environment | The Guardian
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