# End of the Human Race? (NOT a religious question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 31, 2001, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-human-race-not-a-religious-question/67132 "2001-05-31T21:44:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-human-race-not-a-religious-question/67132/21 "2001-06-03T05:27:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by plnnr \* > \*\*I’m convinced that the human race will manage to kill itself off by way of a war of some sort. Situations have a way of spinning out of control and I believe that’s just what is going to happen. > > I predict that the last man on Earth spends his dying minutes looking for his wife and children. \*\* You’re just a ray of sunshine, aren’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Phobos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-human-race-not-a-religious-question/67132/22 "2001-06-04T12:49:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PerfectDark \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > This is NOT the current mainstream theory. The 2nd law of thermo is NOT being violated. I don’t know where you found this. Can you provide the reference? > > Dr Joao Magueijo > Prof Richard Ellis \*\* From [Joao Magueijo:](http://info-physics.ucdavis.edu/Cosmology/albrecht/ein_transcript.htm) > [@](#): > > …Eventually of course it will be nature that will decide whether this is true or not. I’m working on trying to find ways of deciding whether the theory is right or wrong. Some kind of experiment which will decide conclusively whether the varying speed of light theory is pure nonsense or not. I’ll stick with mainstream science’s view of cosmology, which has actual evidence. ---
**Author:** ![PerfectDark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@PerfectDark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PerfectDark)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-human-race-not-a-religious-question/67132/23 "2001-06-04T13:08:15Z")
Yer… **Phobos**! Let’s believe the flatness problem doesn’t exist by inventing a new type of matter that isn’t around any more to fix the problem… No wait, better yet let’s believe in Creationism! PerfectDark ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-human-race-not-a-religious-question/67132/24 "2001-06-04T13:10:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KneadToKnow \* > The most likely scenario I see is that this question will get a lot more attention over in IMHO. 🙂 So much for my powers of clairvoyance. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-human-race-not-a-religious-question/67132/25 "2001-06-04T14:51:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mrgreenjeans7 \* > \*\*We humans will , through science, master the regeneration process, allowing us to live forever, till we are challenged by GOD or SATAN, Well, what the hell are you waiting for? Go put your stock into Celera - we ain’t got all century!! \*\* Hmmmm, didn’t I say \*\* no religious answers? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-human-race-not-a-religious-question/67132.md?page=1)