Global killer virus


NOT zombies, zombies is stupid


However, having studied a bit of medicine and microbiology, there are some very nasty viruses in the world. On top of that there are some pretty nasty people that have played with genetics and viruses enough to know how to makes things that kill you dead, spread easily, and completely bypass the human immune system.


Smallpox has probably killed more people than any other disease or war. Supposedly the WHO eradicated it but there is no guarantee some idiot doesn't have a large supply of in a freezer somewhere.


Everyone knows about Ebola and there have been no cases in humans in the US but ....


The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed somewhere between one half and three quarters of a million people in the Unites States alone. One in four people were affected. Some estimates go as high as 100 million people died world wide in a relatively short 2 year span of the relatively simple flu.


What are the chances of some bug or virus out there, somewhere in guano filled cave in South America or Africa, migrating from bat, or a flea, to a bird or a pig and jumping to humans in a strain or mutation never seen before, more virulent, that that travels in the air like smoke, and there is absolutely no defense or vaccine to combat it ...? It's all happened before. It's not science fiction. It could happen again.

 

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I think enough would survive to repopulate with most of those.

The utterly terrifying ones are extraterrestrial. Right now we are vulnerable to comets and asteroids, but in time I think we can guard ourselves against those. The unimaginable ones though... Massive solar flares, cosmic radiation, black holes. Everything is just dead.

 

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human intervention

 

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4 more years of barry ubama

 

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Meteor strike. I don't think climate change will cause it. We should be in an ice age right now but we are artificially delaying it. I still don't think an ice age would wipe us out, we would just lose a lot we have gained. I think the only climate change that would wipe us out would be if the ocean temps went up enough to release methane to the atmosphere. That could happen, but we can not cause it. Only changing currents due to continental drift would cause that. And I think a meteor strike will take us out first.

 

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One day I'll get tired of being stuck in traffic due to retards who can't figure out how to merge, and that'll be it for this entire planet.

 

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If mankind is destroyed before interstellar habitation, it'll be because of a medical problem.

I doubt it'll happen, though.

 

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I dont think it is going to happen until we use up all the planetary resources. And since this problem will be obvious before total extinction, we will continue. But like mike said, if we figure out how to travel to different places in the universe, it might just never happen. People are too good at surviving

"Human intervention, nuclear war, machines take over etc."

can't change human nature

The ancient alien astronauts will return and kill us all.