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Nov 8 2012 09:48am
The earth won't cease to exist anytime soon.
Humanity is on the edge though.
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Nov 8 2012 09:53am
Many people today feel isolated and disconnected in many ways. Thousands of us live in close physical proximity with thousands of others (for example, in apartments and on trains and buses), and yet we feel isolated and lonely. Neighbors are strangers. Adjacent countries are mortal enemies. All of this division inevitably leads to the fall of us all.
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Nov 8 2012 01:09pm
dyson sphere/ring ftw
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Nov 12 2012 09:15am
Hopefully humans and then evolution will produce a new dominant species.
Unless we advance fast enough and are able to get to one of these planets than can support life. :o
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Nov 12 2012 05:31pm
Quote (Beezle @ Nov 8 2012 11:53am)
Many people today feel isolated and disconnected in many ways. Thousands of us live in close physical proximity with thousands of others (for example, in apartments and on trains and buses), and yet we feel isolated and lonely. Neighbors are strangers. Adjacent countries are mortal enemies. All of this division inevitably leads to the fall of us all.


Fortunately, natural selection favors variety and there are still a great number of adequately social individuals that would make it through a 'bottlenecking' event. But, I do see population decay happening soon maybe.
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Nov 13 2012 02:35am
humans weren't here in the beginning and won't be in the end. we aren't as durable as the other species on the earth, like the turtle for example, which is why we've relied on technology
when technology fails or most of civilization is wiped out leaving a handful of individuals in our species (like has happened before) I doubt they would be able to survive the wild , because most of us lost our "cavemen side" and are so dependent on having a building to sleep in and food provided that lasting even a week would be improbable. If there is a significant catastrophe that kills around 90% of the population I can almost guarantee we wouldn't survive, unless the survivors just so happen to be like bear gryliss and bruce willis or some shit I doubt humanity would be able to recover from scratch.

and even if something major doesn't wipe us out its just a matter of time before co2 levels get too high, holes in the ozone get larger, our planet somehow drifts or is knocked too far or too close to the sun
bam, that kills life within a short period of time with the rock that once sustained it still intact, humans and most animals die first,
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Nov 13 2012 01:49pm
If humanity wants to exceed the lifecycle of the earth or our solar system, it should think about meaningful ways to sustainability.
And based on the rationalism I'd say humanity will die first.
Humans are simply too primitive to travel universes and stuff. Even if we have the power to "create" perfect humans, we will still suffer and need so many ordinary things.

My idea would be a species that may rely on very few things.
Based on technological evolution this is not so far away, except we exterminate ourselves first.
Don't compare this to todays roboters.
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Nov 13 2012 02:05pm
Are you sure this is our first planet? :o
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Nov 14 2012 05:16am
Quote (doomchaser @ Nov 13 2012 09:05pm)
Are you sure this is our first planet?  :o


Based on the fact that our skelettons are very similar to the living animals on this planet - yes.
Also we found remnants of our ancestors
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Nov 14 2012 05:25am
Quote (TIMMY213 @ Nov 2 2012 09:44pm)
In ~600 million years all C3 photosynthesising plant life on earth will die out due to increased radiation from the sun getting rid of CO2. Soon after that all plant and animal life will die out on earth.

So the question becomes: 'do you think humans will have left earth for 'permanent' extrasolar habitations by 600 million years from now?' If we destroy ourselves before then we won't, and if we are technologically incapable we won't.

I like to think we will manage.

'permanent' in this sense means ensuring our survival another 7.6 billion years, ie another half the lifetime of the universe, before the sun engulfs the earth so that we outlive it.

However even dispersed particles have a center of gravity, so the answer is never if you take the question literally. There will always be a calculable center of gravity of the bits of earth, so that criterion isn't helpful when talking about destruction. In the above I take the question ignoring this misunderstanding.


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