Science, the bane of mankind?

Well, with the constant and fast expanding technollogy and science today, when and how exactly (cause I'm sure it will eventually) will it be our downfall?

Things like cloning, railguns, space travel, robots/computers (AI)... All sound great at first, but if you know the human race (and have watched a few movies/read books with sci/fi themes) you know its just a matter of time before we screw up something. Whether we create something for right reasons but get it used wrongly, or create a thing with wrong reasons used right, we're bound to destroy ourselves.

So, what do you think it will be? Space travel inadvertedly provoking aliens to attack us? AI taking over the world? Wars using devestating weaponry find the weapons too devestating? Clones become the new super-race and pwn the normal humans?

There are many other possible scenarios, and this is a thread to note the most creative ones. Discuss.

Dr. Evil will plant a nuke in the San Andreas faultline on the same day Dr. X places one in a volcano in China, and Lord Milligan places an antimatter device in New Zealand, while I test my new gravitronic pulse generator over Cardiff. The combination of these shockwaves will cause a tremendous increase in volcanic activity ten days later, and within the century only non-Earth-bound humans will remain in significant numbers.

We'll clone kingreaper and we wont know how to control him

Wow, just thought of the scariest way for the doom of mankind.
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WoW 2.

Not just WoW 2: WoW VR

Oh the humanity!
*runs to the corner, sits there, grabs knees and starts to rock back and forth rhytmically*

lol.

Way to contribute to the topic and not spam.
On a random note, my cat's name is Bane.

See I contributed you quoted me. And after this post you will say something witty to me.
Therefore keeping the post alive

Hmm, if if wouldn't cut our memberlist by a third I'd ban you for spamming. As we have so few members though I don't think I can afford to complain.

This thread should be renamed to "Spam, the bane of this forum".

Hahaha. Wow. I think this entire thread (like this topic thing I am writing on?) is like spam in my head. I have spent at leats 60 seconds reading over your odd replies, which have a multitude of PC people-speak on it. WoW = World of Warcraft, I know that much. An pwn is the typo for Own from some game which had the typo in it. I'm sorry for being such a NooB

the end of humanity is humanity itself. in the end, our own passion to know everything in the world will eventually lead us into our own destruction.

A friend once told me that 95% of the brain is used to make sure our functional 5% doesn't think up things so unimaginable that we kill ourselves.

So what's to stop us from finding those unimaginable things in real life?

So in the end, we could end up the same position as in the Matrix. Machines takes over the world, we live in tube that simulates electric pulses to our brains, and we think we excist like before, and nothing is wrong, but in the end, we are batterys.


I believe this happens. I believe someday we create too independent and intelligent machine, that "he" does not need humans.



Science made us to be on the top of the world, weak creatures with intelligence to create something stronger to defend us. But in the end, science will tear us down.

I would like to thing, or rather believe that humanity is far more intelligent than to allow such doomsday scenarios come to pass. But lately, that belief is fading. Though remember that in the past, doomsday predictions and end of the world, real science fiction stuff were all mentioned to come to us in our generation. *looks around* Well, it would appear that I'm still alive, the world is still alive, and a nuclear winter did not come through.

Though I acknowledge how close we were to a nuclear winter during the cold war, luckily, leaders and people WERE smart enough not to do something so suicidal. But of course, time changes, people change, and our current leader... and well.. the world. Just isn't the bloody same anymore. But in any case, there could be one trigger, whether it be some technological break through, a leader, an event that ends the world. And at the same time there could be another that would diffuse the threat, stop the chain reaction like lead rods being rammed up the ass of a nuclear fuel containment tank.

I hope that is the case in future generations to come, as our history have shown time and time again that humanity is saved by the action of not just one, but many. As long as the greater populace is willing to act, simply by the sheer will of logic and survival. We should be in safe hands, but that is not just cause for any of us to sit back and relax. We need to be part of the greater acting populace lest it be overtaken.