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artu
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posted November 18, 2012 09:15 AM |
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How many centuries do you think we have ahead?
According to scientists the solar system has about 5 billion years to go. Until now, life on earth almost ended twice, once about 250 million years ago, once about 65 million years ago. The reasons were a volcano and a meteor. Still, when we are talking about life-ending catastrophic incidents, statistically we are talking about things that occur once in a hundreds of millions of years, in the short term that kind of thing probably isn't going to happen. Besides we are so wide-spread all over the planet, a virus or a volcano isn't likely to wipe out 100 percent of us and we can now blast meteors with nukes. So what do you think the life-span of humanity is? Will we be able to travel through galaxies by the time sun goes out or will we be long extinct by then?
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posted November 18, 2012 09:33 AM |
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master_learn
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posted November 18, 2012 09:50 AM |
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Interesting question you write down,artu.
I would point out to a certain author,who wrote many books on the subject-his name is Isaac Asimov.
In the books of Asimov,which I have read,he writes about the First and the Second Foundation,created by Hari Seldon and the robots,who are very much like humans,but they help us with everything they can,according to the three laws of robotics.
So I believe we could be able to travel through space and if we learn to be unified and creative,than anything would be possible.
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Mytical
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posted November 18, 2012 09:52 AM |
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Provided we don't destroy ourselves? I say we are good. It won't be too far into the future when we find a way to colonize other planets..then short of our sun taking everything out at once..or our galaxy collapsing..there would be no stopping us.
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posted November 18, 2012 09:53 AM |
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Quote: Provided we don't destroy ourselves? I say we are good. It won't be too far into the future when we find a way to colonize other planets..then short of our sun taking everything out at once..or our galaxy collapsing..there would be no stopping us.
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friendofgunnar
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posted November 18, 2012 11:19 AM |
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lol @ "33 days"
The record of the homo genus has shown that typically one branch will usually diverge, go through a rapid evolution, embark on an expansion and then absorb and assimilate the other branches. With the advent of genetic engineering I fully believe that hobo sapiens as we know it will be gone in about 5000 years.
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Mytical
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posted November 18, 2012 03:58 PM |
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The Hobo Sapiens are too busy jumping trains to do much.
I do agree that we will evolve, and our species as we know it will eventually be no more..but the entire strain we come from is a virus. It spreads, consumes, destroys, and moves on. Sure, there are conservation efforts, but at what point will our growth outstrip them? Hope we can keep coming up with more efficient ways, and get use to not being able to move 10' without bumping into each other
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artu
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posted November 18, 2012 11:15 PM |
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The record of the homo genus has shown that typically one branch will usually diverge, go through a rapid evolution, embark on an expansion and then absorb and assimilate the other branches. With the advent of genetic engineering I fully believe that hobo sapiens as we know it will be gone in about 5000 years.
i think our biological evolution may have stopped, or at least drastically slowed down. first of all, we dont adopt to the environment anymore, we engineer it to adopt to us. secondly, our physical qualities hardly determine our success rate at surviving, so a model like long-legged individuals surviving at higher ratio hence causing the species to be longer legged in long term is out of the question. also, evolving into different species starts with evolving into races. today, that situation is reversed because of our advanced technology of transportation and communication: all races are getting mixed and in near future we will all be hybrids, genetically, already almost all of us are anyway.
so unless we are talking about stuff like getting immune to some diseases and stuff, i'm guessing our physical appearance won't change much in the near or distant future.
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posted November 19, 2012 05:41 PM |
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Evolution is the rate of mutations. Adaptability is the mutations which can make reproducing reproductions under the given environment. Evolution didn't 'stop', the required environment to survive became less scattered, so former no-go mutations are now ok.
Nice topic, btw.
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artu
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posted November 19, 2012 08:47 PM |
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Quote: Evolution is the rate of mutations. Adaptability is the mutations which can make reproducing reproductions under the given environment. Evolution didn't 'stop', the required environment to survive became less scattered, so former no-go mutations are now ok.
Nice topic, btw.
Thanks.
The basis is of course mutations, but it takes a great period of time for those mutations to accumulate and cause serious change of a specie. It's not like there's a mutation and you evolve overnight like in X-Men.What i argue is the mutations that humans still have, ceased to turn into an advantage (or disadvantage) like they did in wild nature.
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Miru
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posted November 20, 2012 06:35 AM |
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We have bunkers specifically designed to survive and restart life after a nuclear war. I think that if something even more catastrophic than that were to happen we would see if far enough in advance to prepare for it. I don't see anything in the future that could end life, at least until we develop a technology more powerful than nukes.
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