Have we failed as a species?

[The Grand Nudger]

Our species will be a distant memory in a billion years, even if our descendants -do- colonize mars.  

[Jehanne]

Our species will be a distant memory in a billion years, even if our descendants -do- colonize mars.  

You're probably right, although, some animals (some reptiles, I think), have largely maintained their form over a 100 million years or more.  I have read that the sperm count among men is falling, and so, we may be forced to resort to cloning someday, or, have a human race that is perhaps all women if the Y chromosome should disappear???

[NuclearEnergy]

It's hard to say. But look at how far we've come!

[Anomalocaris]

Our species will be a distant memory in a billion years, even if our descendants -do- colonize mars.  

I don't think our species have good chance of surviving even 10 thousand years.  If things go well, we would enhance ourselves with genetic engineering and implanted cybernetics to such a degree it would be silly to say our descendants 10 thousand years hence would still be the same specie as their barbarous trump electing ancestors.  But more likely we would have died out as a consequence of electing trump or another trump like piece of shit to positions in control of major nuclear arsenals.

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It's hard to say. But look at how far we've come!

Yeah, electing a trump would have been unthinkable just a few decades ago.

[The Valkyrie]

Human extinction?

Working on it...

[vorlon13]

Our species will be a distant memory in a billion years, even if our descendants -do- colonize mars.  

You're probably right, although, some animals (some reptiles, I think), have largely maintained their form over a 100 million years or more.  I have read that the sperm count among men is falling, and so, we may be forced to resort to cloning someday, or, have a human race that is perhaps all women if the Y chromosome should disappear???

[Aristocatt]

From a purely physics perspective we're in principle fine entropy-wise as long as the sun is shining...

Bold mine
There is a Schrodinger's cat meets dyson shpere joke to be made here, I just don't have the energy to refine it well enough for a good punchline.

[The Valkyrie]

"have we failed as a species?"

Do catholic bears molest bear cubs in the woods?

[Anomalocaris]

From a purely physics perspective we're in principle fine entropy-wise as long as the sun is shining...

Bold mine
There is a Schrodinger's cat meets dyson shpere joke to be made here, I just don't have the energy to refine it well enough for a good punchline.

A specie of primates, a flask of Christianity, and a evangelist preacher are sealed in a dyson sphere. If an internal monitor detects the preacher preaching, the flask is shattered, killing the primates....

[abaris]

We actually haven't failed as a species, because under the laws of nature and natural selection, failure would be extinction. As long as we survive, we have succeeded.

And not even a million years being homo sapiens sapiens is sufficient to come to that judgment? We have clocked off about 0.75 percent of the time dinosaurs roamed the land. I wouldn't call that a success yet looking at the big picture.