Board 8 > How much longer do you think humans will survive?

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How much longer do you think we will be around? I give us another 700 years or so.

I think scarce resources and battling natural disasters will be what does the trick.

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1500-6 billion.

That covers at least doubling the written history of humans, which seems like a simple achievement. Does it not mean that large portions of humans will get wiped out before then? Of course not. But humans in some capacity will definitely survive.

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maybe a year

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"Humans" implies just 2 or more so it will be a long time even with no resources

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TomNook posted...

1500-6 billion.

That covers at least doubling the written history of humans, which seems like a simple achievement. Does it not mean that large portions of humans will get wiped out before then? Of course not. But humans in some capacity will definitely survive.

Yeah it would take something absolutely catastrophic, beyond our wildest imagination, to wipe out the species entirely in less than 1500 years.

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bout five minutes

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The Sun will be luminous enough to render Earth uninhabitable by present understanding in less than two billion years*

*not entirely sure on the math behind this because my half-assed calculation gave an increase of about 10 degrees Kelvin for Earth's temperature which is bad but not life-ending, but I'll trust the sources I found and scientists who actually know what they're doing

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I absolutely loathe this topic and the casual nihilism it inspires. Like, I have not used the hide topic feature until now.

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whenever that comet hits in 2027

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Two days after the day after tomorrow.

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Realistically anything other than 0-500 isn't an honest answer. Even the upper half of that range requires absolutely enormous guesswork that I doubt anyone in the topic has really done. Think about how far humanity has come in the last 500 years. The modern world would be largely unrecognizable to a person of that era.

Granted this rapid growth happened in a comparatively short amount of time and has been largely the application of a few newly developed technologies or utilized resources (computers, electricity, etc.). Is there another one of those around the corner? 500 years is a long time, and speculating about anything that far out is a complete mystery.

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The society of 500 years ago was still comprised of humans, and the theoretical society of 500 years from now as you present it would also still be comprised of humans. Your point is inapplicable.

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Does it still count as human if in the future our species evolves into something beyond homosapien?

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mnkboy907 posted...

Does it still count as human if in the future our species evolves into something beyond homosapien?

This is a far better question. The poll options are too weighted toward the bottom. It's straight up doomsaying to answer anything lower than "1501- 6 billion years," but that range is so huge that it's a largely pointless answer.

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Got to consider geologic time ranges. Dinosaurs lasted roughly 200 million years. We as a species are going to beat that time span and we're only at 200,000 years or so. In fact, we will likely be the last mammals standing and the last large animals surviving. Can't underestimate intelligence and tool use of humans. It was one of nature's most amazing adaptations of DNA. Assuming no other species develops that topples our own in intelligence, we will likely "rule" this world for the next few billion years. I could see some bugs and definitely microbes beating us out.

We will also look completely and ridiculously different by then due to the altering of our DNA over that amount of time.

Catastrophes might arise that wipe out tons of us at once. But humans as a species...very resilient to all changes, much more than all other animals.

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No option for negative years. Bad poll.
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longer than airjordan2345 does i think

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If we make it to 2100 we are basically immortal.

Taking aside the likely replacement of flesh-made humans for cyborgs and eventually human brains uploaded into machines, but that still counts as humanity imo.

I think it's far more likely that humans almost entirely wipe themselves out, then the tiny number of survivors rebuild, probably to a point where they can destroy themselves again within a few (10ish) thousand years. Basically something straight out of A Canticle for Leibowitz and similar novels.

Like, around 2040 we should start getting computers who are straight up smarter than us in every way. And assuming they don't wipe us out, they'll begin to quickly solve the few remaining things that are capable of wiping us out, which are not many at this point.

Stuff like the sun exploding is an obvious doomsday issue, but if we survive billions of years, our physics will be so ridiculously advanced we'll likely be exploring the galaxy at that point.

in the year 2525...

i clicked this topic thinking it would be in the resolution of decades,not half-millenia

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mnkboy907 posted...

Does it still count as human if in the future our species evolves into something beyond homosapien?

No, but thinking that evolution is on the order of 1000 years is just as bad as thinking human eradication will happen in 1000 years

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scarletspeed7 posted...

I absolutely loathe this topic and the casual nihilism it inspires. Like, I have not used the hide topic feature until now.

it can definitely inspire nihilism, but it shouldnt. No matter how long we make it, mankind is the single most badass entity to exist in the KNOWN universe ( looking at you fancy aliens).

While we are here, we should leave fulfilling and happy lives and appreciate anything we can and be the kindest people we can be.

However, Im still curious how long we will make it.

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foolm0r0n posted...

No, but thinking that evolution is on the order of 1000 years is just as bad as thinking human eradication will happen in 1000 years

Natural selection happens over significantly longer timescales, as does, to a perhaps lesser extent, speciation via selective breeding. Natural selection and selective breeding aren't the only possibilities for evolution in the near/mid future.

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Supposedly we will be facing mass extinction in the next 50 years

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the robots will get us in the 2100s

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We will survive the sun going out but then get overrun by the Zerg.

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