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How do I put this gently? Your species is already extinct. Your species is really just waiting to find out what caused that extinction. That cause, almost ce
by yawpitch 2y ago
How do I put this gently?
Your species is already extinct.
Your species is really just waiting to find out what caused that extinction.
That cause, almost certainly, will have been its own actions in its own local environment.
Essentially, your species will almost certainly have shit in its own backyard, and eventually its mouth, to death.
It will likely do so within the next 100,000 years.
The odds of Voyager, or any, emission or artifact made by your species being encountered by another life form capable of all of receiving it, recognizing it, understanding it, and responding to it in any manner within that timeframe is, essentially, zero. Not precisely zero, but near enough.
The odds of that species having malevolent intent and arriving in time to do anything but engage in archaeology? Now you’re reaching actual zero.
Worrying about this particular existential risk isn’t just premature, it’s prenatal.
- thih9 2y agoSpecies go extinct but also evolve. In 100000 years today’s civilizations might fall but there would still be some carbon based lifeforms. Perhaps tiny, furry humans; maybe with a dislike for digging up fossil fuels.
- yawpitch 2y agoKind of definitionally if it goes extinct it’s done evolving. And sure, plenty of carbon-based life forms — currently all known life forms — will survive, and hopefully whatever does is smart enough to learn from our own-goals. It may even be another primate or another hominid… what it won’t be is us.
- thih9 2y agoNote that on a cosmic scale, hominid, primate, or even carbon based might count as us. On a human scale, after 100000 years it wouldn’t be us in any case.
- The_Colonel 2y agoCivilizations will collapse, but self-eradication might be quite difficult.
- lolc 2y agoGet our reproduction cycle to be based on advanced tech. Then let society collapse so it doesn't have the tech anymore. Will take a few generations still.