Next Great Extinction Around The Corner?

**chimpkin** · 03-14-11, 07:06 PM

Don't laugh.

**winer36** · 03-17-11, 07:41 AM

Judging by these latest natural disasters, who knows if we as humans won't be extinct. I don't know about you guys, but I am scared when everyone is talking about the end of the world lately.

**chimpkin** · 03-17-11, 07:37 PM

Meh, I think we're too adaptable to all die off...I'm sure there'll still be a few pathetic survivors

**livingin360** · 03-18-11, 03:44 PM

I agree Chimpkin and after that we will have gotten our spanking and realized how bad we were and not make the mistake again. Mother Earth is very angry at us. lol imagine if a intelligent alien race could read our conversations. We would be looked at like a extremely unintelligent species.

**chimpkin** · 03-18-11, 08:00 PM

We would be looked at like a extremely unintelligent species.

Like? Hmm...not sure that would be the adverb I'd use in that sentence...

**livingin360** · 03-18-11, 08:31 PM

should i of said as lol?

**adoucette** · 04-10-11, 09:23 PM

Originally Posted by Randwolf

Ironically, deer kill even more - like 20,000 + (because of car accidents)...

Also, while not mammals, bees and wasps top the killer animal list by far in the US. Then next, we have man's best friend, canis familiaris - the house dog.

Bison don't even appear on this list, so I'm curious where you got your data. Seems like they should be there somewhere... Fraggle?

Bee/Wasp - 53
Dogs - 31
Horse - 20
Spider - 6.5
Rattlesnake - 5.5
Bull - 3
Mountain lion - 1
Shark - 1

Ah, Deer do NOT kill 20,000 people per year, that would be roughly half the car fatalities in the US.

Your article actually said 83, but that was a low year.

The U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that deer kill around 130 each year, but it varies, in 1994, deer caused 211 deaths in car wrecks.

Now as far as damage & injuries, there are about ~1.5 million deer/vehicle collisions annually, resulting in 29,000 injuries and more than $1 billion in damages. If you consider that deer also carry ticks that transmit Lyme disease to about 13,000 people each year and then the economic damage to agriculture and landscaping by deer you are over $2 billion a year.

Truely mega pests.

Globally the animal that kills the most though would have to be the mosquito.

You left off the fractions that were less than one.

In the US the figures also include (on average)

Bear 0.5
Scorpion 0.5
Centipede 0.5
Alligator 0.3
Elephant 0.25
Wolf 0.1

As to the Horse, people are not exactly killed by Horses in the same way they are by these other animals, they usually just fall off.

Arthur

**chimpkin** · 04-10-11, 09:40 PM

As to the Horse, people are not exactly killed by Horses in the same way they are by these other animals, they usually just fall off.

If you fall off the horse, aren't you supposed to get right back on it? I reckon it would take some straps and assistance at that point...

**~~EmptyForceOfChi~~** · 04-11-11, 06:48 AM

Originally Posted by livingin360

I believed for a long time humans are going to push all life on earth to the edge for the last two years and made a video to bring awareness to the subject. It seems like more awareness has been brought to the subject then and sites like TIMES are actually making articles about it now. http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/201...han-you-think/ What do you guys think? I've scanned over the majority of the earths satellite images almost crazily thoroughly and i can agree the earth is being raped by men mostly with deforestation and farming. Also being a Hunter in the past but now a vegetarian i recall my dad shooting over 400 deer in his lifetime and seeing the populations of deer declining to almost 0 because of poaching near our land. Also when i would go to any national forest i would realize after traveling different ones that they were all lumber crops. They were not really protected forests they were just crops of lumber that were regularly harvested. The trunks of the ancient trees that were untouched before people came you would see and they would make the new forests look tiny they looked 100's of years old but couldn't be found anymore.

You can't stop it brother, your all going to die be mindfull of that. some of you will survive longer than others but it makes no difference.

May god hasten the day and may time continue to speed up.

**GeoffP** · 04-11-11, 08:30 AM

?? How about He not do that. Or, maybe in certain cases.

**origin** · 04-11-11, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by winer36

Judging by these latest natural disasters, who knows if we as humans won't be extinct. I don't know about you guys, but I am scared when everyone is talking about the end of the world lately.

Really? Doesn't phase me in the slightest - really. The chances of anything monumental happening during our short time on this planet is nil. People have been talk about the end of the world for eons. The christians for instance have been continuosly saying it is right around the corner for 2000 years. Besides we are all going to die anyway, if we get to go with the whole planet - well that would be special, wouldn't it?

**~~NietzscheHimself~~** · 04-11-11, 03:40 PM

Be even more special if we knew when to fire off the baby ships to planet Krypton.

**Dywyddyr** · 04-11-11, 03:43 PM

Krypton blew up.
It's no longer there.

**~~NietzscheHimself~~** · 04-11-11, 03:56 PM

There are still some pieces capable of life... but that's irrelevant because our space ships go back in time the further out they travel so it's still there... well not anymore but it will be when the ship arrives in 30,000 light years.

**Dywyddyr** · 04-11-11, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by NietzscheHimself

but that's irrelevant because our space ships go back in time the further out they travel

No they don't.

so it's still there... well not anymore but it will be when the ship arrives in 30,000 light years.

Wrong.
And light year is a measure of distance.

**~~NietzscheHimself~~** · 04-11-11, 04:18 PM

Way to turn a joke into something serious. So your implying we completely screwed right now technologically speaking if the unspeakable happens.

**Dywyddyr** · 04-11-11, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by NietzscheHimself

So your implying we completely screwed right now technologically speaking if the unspeakable happens.

Am I?

**KilljoyKlown** · 04-11-11, 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by origin

Really? Doesn't phase me in the slightest - really. The chances of anything monumental happening during our short time on this planet is nil. People have been talk about the end of the world for eons. The christians for instance have been continuosly saying it is right around the corner for 2000 years. Besides we are all going to die anyway, if we get to go with the whole planet - well that would be special, wouldn't it?

Dying is dying and is natural and so are extinctions and I can't see anything special about it, anyway it happens. But if the worlds got to get wiped out while I'm still around I'd like to put my vote in for an asteroid strike, just far enough away so I could have a couple minutes to watch before kissing my ass goodbye.

**~~NietzscheHimself~~** · 04-11-11, 04:38 PM

You might be. Either way I have identified a possibility.

**X-Man2** · 04-11-11, 04:40 PM

Got to ask what is different about today's wood from trees vs trees of the past? Have you ever driven a nail into old 2x4's or those wood slats in the wall of old houses,they are super hard compared to now.Hell today's 2x4's and the rest split on you when hammering a nail or driving a wood screw.