How does it all play out
 

How does it all play out in the end?

Is it like Planet of the Apes, we nuke everything and Dr Cornelius takes over.

We keep it together, and have more of a Star Trek situation, or blow it and end up with a Logan's Run or Clockwork Orange scenario

Or maybe Rockatansky loses everything, there is some sort of apocalypse that keeps the Aussies from going to the beach, resulting in a Mad Max type of a deal.

Kevin's Gate comes through, and we end up with a Waterworld.

Idiocracy wins by a mile probably, but you never want to count out those guys that stole the car Wayne ended up with from Clockwork Orange. I need to go check that thread.

So how does it play out

With a whimper, not a bang. Probably more like Elysium, but without the sky cities. Someday in the future, someone will look back at the early 21st century and remember the good times.

wiped out by AI or a rogue virus that escaped the bio-weapons lab...and sooner rather than later...

An asteroid or a super volcano.

As a long time Science Fiction fan I have read a lot of Asimov and Heinlein, Arthur Clarke. Most of them dealt with the far distant future, as the near term is a crapshoot.

Reading about the Cuban Missile crisis, and looking back on the situation through history, we had two chances right then to have had WW3. The great news is JFK was the perfect president at the time, and ignored the advice of the military to strike. We know now what he did not, the Russians were ready on the island for an invasion.

Even scarier was a Russian submarine was underwater with no communications to Moscow. The captain ordered the launch of a nuke, but the political officer, and the other man with the second key both said no, risking court marshal, and life in prison or execution to defy the captain. They demanded they surface and get confirmation from Moscow. When they surfaced an American destroyer had guns aimed at them, but did not fire. They called Moscow and were told to stand down, and return home.

We were literally just seconds away from WW3. With luck, we will never get that close again, but China and Russia and North Korea are all just unpredictable. Hopefully all of them understand just one of our nuclear submarines can lay waist to their major cities, and we have lots of subs.

I honestly hope for a Start Trek future, where technology has solved most problems. Imagine a future where a replicator can make you any meal, diamonds, gold or component. Money is no longer really needed as everyone has access to resources. Pop into a transporter and travel to any place on Earth instantly. Medicine can fix and cure about anything.

All we need is some Dilithium Chrystals. ;)

Wall-E

Lighten up. We'll be long dead and it will be the same old same old.

Over-population will eventually do us in. Food, water, and other resources are already in short supply in some places. It'll be a slow and gradual decline. Global tensions will result in conflict as the Earth struggles to support the ever-expanding human population. The end of humanity's run on this planet will not be pretty.

Population is on the decline. Well, growth is on the decline with a zero growth forecasted at the end of the 21st century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline

I'm with you on resource constraint though, regardless of population size.

Soylent Green is the future.

We'll die of either boredom or apathy. Ever seen the movie Equilibrium?

I've seen the enemy and it is us......

Someone unplugs the Pelican server?

Humanity will cure overpopulation. It’s what populations do. Overly dense populations of mice (and other mammals) resort to infanticide and cannnibalism to reduce their numbers.

That used to happen quite frequently. We made it through it.:)

1. California plunges into the sea.
2. I go back to Annandale.

IDGAF because I won't be around when it happens.

domed

Poof .... gone!

Ultimately it's up to us and I've always been an optimist.

Like every other major problem of the past this will be solved... But it will be painful.
- Or we'll Nuke ourselves and that's that.

If so I'm out first as I live within the first strike zone of a major military arsenal.

We got Pearl Harbor. KJU will want to strike that so the Navy is hampered.

I’ve wondered about the future and humanity. Unless something drastic happens, I don’t see everyone playing nice together. I think that we will end up fighting one another in some form and it’s going to be dog eat dog.

Aren’t nuclear submarines station at Kings Bay, Georgia? What’s the blast radius for nuclear weapons? I’m 210 miles away, so I might be OK.

For a couple minutes anyway.

I'd have the pleasure of going slowly... If a Nuke didn't hit were I live I'd have maybe 6 months tops.

The last time I really worried about Nukes and the world was back in the 80s. It seems all too real right now.

Man I'm so close that my house shakes when they detonate anything big. The coolest part was whenever Trump was at his golf course, they'd have the fighters circling overhead.

I don’t think the end of the world will happen in the next couple of centuries. I think human bodies will have machines and algorithms eventually and automation will make us all lazy and dependent but hopefully people in the future near and far will be wise enough to make sure AI doesn’t become self aware.

we got a couple of years left

Like Terminator???

I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.

Always enjoy browsing PPOT to get a nice boost of optimism to start my day.

Thnx guys!!!

As for how it plays out, the lucky ones get old and die. SmileWavy

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If the threat of nuclear war gets higher, I will buy a couple of these for my wife and I to hide under. For most every year in grade school we had fire drills, and air raid drills, or tornado drills. They always made us get under our desks to be safe in a nuclear strike or a tornado. It must be a very safe place. I remember they gave us a brochure and it had basic instructions on how to deliver a baby. I asked are all the adults going to be gone? Why do I have to deliver babies?

I like 13 miles as the nuke blast travels from Tinker, AFB. The home of Air Force maintenance, and the AWACS fleet. And a navy base!

A big hydrogen bomb there would likely be goodby time for me.

I really think the Mutually Assured destruction thinking will keep any aggressor from attacking us. Nuke em till they glow, nuke em till they glow!

Meh. Just a dream.

Honeybee brood disease; no bees to pollinate the plants, no food for us.

But the science fiction writers might have gotten it right, too!

Maybe
• A giant sunspot wipes out all our data
or
• A giant EMP bricks all our electronics
or
• Secret Jewish Space Lasers burn down all the forests

My happy prediction for all this:

- Multiple rapidly-mutating viruses break out and we have rampant sickness across the globe. The range of viruses runs the gamut from COVID-like to ebola-like symptoms and they are intermixed across all populations within a short time.

- This hastens a major economic downturn / collapse accompanied by major civil unrest and uprising.

- Governments implement extreme measures to attempt to contain the virus spread and quell civil disobedience.

- Some random country attempts to purge the virus spread with nukes or other major military action; other countries misinterpret intent and then game over.

Putin launches nukes, we respond, N Korea doesn't want to left out of the party and they shoot a nuke that blows up 5 seconds after launch, Biden blames gas stoves, CNN says it all Trump's fault, DeSantis declares himself King, Musk buys Iowa, Tom Brady buys the Patriots and fires the staff and team, and Jimmy Hoffa/Elvis Presley show up on the 7 O'clock news together and declare they are running for President/Vice President.

Now here's the weird part: Russ Meyer and Ken Burns decide to do a documentary about all of it.

^^^
Hoffa would never wait for the 7pm news...otherwise I believe all of it.

What a bunch of downers. I swear, you won't be invited to my end of the world party.

Well if it's the Russ Meyer responsible for this...

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I can sure think of worse ways to go!