(October 10, 2019 at 12:56 am)Macoleco Wrote: I have always thought that humanity is destined to go extinct because no matter how much our technology advances, an unforeseen catastrophe will wipe us all. But I have started to think if there is any chance we may survive for not thousand, but millions of years?
What if we create colonies throughout the universe to secure our existence? What if we encounter other intelligent life that help us create an environment of cooperation? Perhaps even an intergalactic hub with multiple intelligence species!!!!!
What do you think? Are we doomed? Or is there hope?
The truth is on a planet that has had 5 mass extinction events and considering that other life like water bears and cockroaches are far more suited for survival and outnumber humans, it is highly likely they will out survive humans until the sun expands and fries all life on our planet.
We will eventually go extinct. There is no escaping that. But it is frustrating that our species DOES have the brains to try to figure out how to extend our finite ride.
We will not survive billions of years from now. But in the short term, can we as a species extend our ride? Yes, so the only argument right now is "will we"?
The short term truth is that humans really do need to face the fact that the earth is a globe and not infinitely flat, and the bigger we grow and the more resources we use, and the faster we consume things, the shorter our ride will be.
Humans if we wan't to extend our finite ride, really have to face the fact that we cannot infinitely expand and we ARE an invasive species.
