Oisin -- "Even end of the human race don't look like happening anytime soon. It'll all be a gradual process of papering over our lives until we are
no longer humans but slaves to a deadly automaton... Of course this may have already happened."
First of all, I don't want to sound like I have a big ego or anything

but I've been dabbling in Chaos Theory a bit, and (re)discovered that
there have been over 50 billion species have existed since the creation of Earth. That means that over 98% of them have become extinct. That probably
doesn't matter to anybody at all, but that leads to the fact that every species that is now extinct had existed for
about 4 million years
before they died off. So, it does look like the end of the human race is a good distance away.
However, I also discovered an equation that suggests that the end of the world (or Apocalypse, Christ's 2nd coming, or whatnot) will occur
sometime in the year 2008.
So, the end of the HUMAN RACE may not be that far off...some other species may indeed take over once we're gone (which
also opens the gateway for Extra-terrestrials taking over Earth once we're gone...hehe)
Yeah, I know, you want sources...go to Barnes and Noble and ask for books on Chaos Theory and the Apocalypse....that's what I ended up
doing...couldn't tell you the name of the books, however...whoopsie...