The fate of humanity

[dark_energy]

So what will happen if we overcome the odds and humanity actually survives until the universe becomes inhospitable. If we survive our global warming, ice ages, wars, asteroids, comets, alien invasions (possibly), swelling of the sun, then what? Will we star-hop for the rest of our days in the universe and exhaust one planet's resources and then move on to another for until there are planets and suitable stars around? What happens when all the stars have burned out and the universe is just a pool of subatomic particles? Is THAT our ultimate fate? Is there no hope for humanity? Enlighten me. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[kelle]

The only thing that is certain is that humanity will some day all die. Whether it's tomorrow or 1000 billion years in the future we can't know. Perhaps, if we survive "our youth" start colonizing planets and spread out we will survive for billions of years. But ultimately the universe will go down, but we don't know how techological powerful we are then. Perhaps we will be able to travel to other universes, or create matter and energy out of nothing, no one knows. Perhaps we will become entities of pure energy which can "live" for millions of billions of years.<br /><br />But given unlimited time, anything will happen and humanity will sooner or later die out.

 

[igorsboss]

When Andromeda hits the Milky Way, we'll be done.<br /><br />Our best hope for survival lies in using our DNA technology to develop microorganisms which can serve as space seeds for other worlds, and spread them like spores.

 

[dark_energy]

Maybe we'll meet other technologically advanced aliens who can tell us the secret to immortality... all this talk reminds me of Starcraft. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[arobie]

<font color="yellow">... all this talk reminds me of Starcraft.</font><br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/shocked.gif" /><b>!!!</b> Thats what I was thinking! I don't even know why. Just something about this reminded me of that game.

 

[dark_energy]

Starcraft was a fun game. Then it got boring. I haven't played it in 4 years. I wanna play it again but I can't find the disc. <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[dub_]

ugh......<br />

 

[dark_energy]

What's wrong, dub? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[igorsboss]

Little too heavy for ya?

 

[kelle]

Hmm... you take paypal as well?<br /><br />Think if you lose, that would have been annoying for you. The end of humanity AND you would have to pay me a lot of money. If YOU win I would have to pay you some money, but I would continue living. Wow, it's a win-win situation for me! <img src="/images/icons/crazy.gif" />

 

[Maddad]

Or at my site:<br />http://www.maddad.org/asimov01.htm<br /><br />It'll take you 20 minutes to read. DO NOT read the end first. You will ruin the best ending of a story that you're ever likely to see.

 

[mooware]

I think humanity as we know it will not survive. I think there is a good chance we will become "programs" in a programmed environment.<br /><br />

 

[kelle]

No, it's not tomorrow, now it's today. Tomorrow is tomorrow and will always be tomorrow.

 

[grooble]

In a million years we'll be powerful enough to create our own suns.

 

[dark_energy]

Or so we speculate. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[kelle]

<img src="/images/icons/crazy.gif" /><br /><br />I'm not the one making nonsense here, you are actually saying that tomorrow is today???!?!? Are you nuts?!? What about yesterday, was that 3 weeks ago or is it 24 years in the future? I thought you were a very reasonable guy, but now you must have gone mad.

 

[kelle]

How do you know you are here? What is "here"? Perhaps everything is just an illusion? And what is time? Have time really passed? How can you be sure?

 

[nexium]

Hi steavehw: Why do you think humans can survive gamma ray bursts and cosmic ray bursts better in a space habitat than a mile below the surface of Earth plus 50 miles of atmosphere and a million? miles of magnetic field?<br /> Will we be significantly safer from intense gravity waves?<br /> The cloud top gravity of Jupiter is 2.75 times that of Earth. Won't brown dwarf cloud tops be 99% hydrogen at ten or more times Earth's surface gravity? That does not seem like a good source of raw materials. Neil

 

[nexium]

Hi eburacum: Can you give us more details about the big rip seanario? By "everything" ripped apart, surely you did not mean the quarks would be separated from the protons? Is the average diameter of the orbit of Neptune presently increasing a millimeter per century because the Universe is expanding? Neil

 

[grooble]

24 Billion years <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" />. Ok if we managed to survive that long, we'd have probably evolved into pure energy and reverse this big rip through sheer force of will.

 

[dark_energy]

WE COULD DIE TOMOOOROO!! :O <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[dark_energy]

Sarcasm, buddy. =S <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[kelle]

Okay... I give up. Is it much I owe you? US $260.000? Or is it $270.000?