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There is a lot of time for better chances to come along. Depending on the estimate, we're not yet halfway through the lifetime of the sun, that's plenty of time
by nkrisc 9y ago
There is a lot of time for better chances to come along. Depending on the estimate, we're not yet halfway through the lifetime of the sun, that's plenty of time for a more successful successor to humans. And the Earth didn't even exist for much of the first half of the sun's lifetime.
- adrianN 9y agoThe lack of alien contact suggests to me that technological civilizations don't appear very frequently. So I'm afraid that we're somewhat of an evolutionary aberration and if we'd go extinct a replacement wouldn't arise.