• Question: when will the human race die out and why?

    Asked by purpleelephant to Alex, Ali, Kerry, Philip, Theo on 17 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Alison Thomson

      Alison Thomson answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      The guy sitting next to me thinks that the volcano in YellowStone Park will erupt in the next 60,000 years, and it will be such a big eruption it will destroy the world.

      In my personal opinion, I don’t think it will be for a very long time, and it could happen for any reason – maybe we’ll exhaust all of earth’s resources?

    • Photo: Philip Ratcliffe

      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      There’s no reason to think that the human race die out any time. We could go on forever – maybe with some evolution so that gradually we’d be bit different to what e are now. Our Sun can on for millions of years and who knows what we’ll be able to do by then. Just think what’s happened since William the Conqueror’s time and that’s just a thousand years.

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