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There will be no follow-up species besides those we evolve into and/or create. We're going to inherit the observable universe to ourselves. Even if we go throug
by fellowmartian 3y ago
There will be no follow-up species besides those we evolve into and/or create. We're going to inherit the observable universe to ourselves. Even if we go through a couple of apocalypses on the road to it, it's really hard to imagine a scenario where ALL humans die, so it's much more economic to rebuild a civilization from remaining humans than evolve intelligence again.
- ceejayoz 3y agoThat's a whole bunch of unearned certainty, but the same point applies to a post-apocalyptic resurgence of humanity; the second industrial revolution is going to be missing the readily accessible coal and oil that drove the first one along.
- fellowmartian 3y agoWe're from different memeplexes, but both of our assumptions are equally unearned. But if we're talking about a second industrial revolution it won't be like the first one, because: - There will be more carbon in the air, hence more wood to chop and burn - There will books lying around describing how to leapfrog many steps I don't think it'd take 10000 years again to restore civilization the second time around.
- gizajob 3y agoMight take 500 million though.
- Shekelphile 3y agoEarth is highly unlikely to support intelligent life 500 million years from now. Multicellular life entirely won’t exist in 1 billion years.