Re:Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate ...
by TekMol on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @08:30AM
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What is the point if humans exist another 1000 years? Or does it have to be a million years? How many years does it need to breed meaning?
Re:Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate ...
by malvosenior on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @09:05AM
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Enough that we can spread humanity into space and/or develop sentient technology.
Re:Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate ...
by martythemaniak on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @09:32AM
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Forever. I mean, life is a natural consequence of the nature and physics of the universe, and human civilization is a natural consequence of life processes. Existence and progression is the meaning.
Re:Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate ...
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @09:46AM
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> Forever.
Already failed then.
Scenario 1) The universe will end in heat death, the big rip, or other similar cosmic catastrophe.
Scenario 2) The universe continues on for infinity, giving plenty of time for even the most ridiculously unlikely of events to occur. It is therefore inevitable that humanity or whatever progeny it might have will still ultimately cease to exist.
Re:Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate ...
by kazagistar on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:48AM
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Scenario 2 isn't actually so clear. Over time, humanity can decrease its suceptability to being wiped out by unlikely events at a faster rate then the events themselves over time.
Re:Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate ...
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:57AM
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But we can never hit 0, and infinity is a long time.
That's leaving aside that 2 is already pretty unlikely given what we know of the universe.
Re:Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate ...
by martythemaniak on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:02PM
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Time is a property of the universe.
But I'm genuinely curious about people that think like you. Okay, so everyone dies by about 2100, then what? What is the point of basically anything?