Of course, if there’s technologically advanced trans-post-not-really-human-anymore civilization(s) on Earth and in the solar system a billion years from hence, moving Earth’s orbit outwards is actually a possibility. It would take megayears, but who knows how things will go in the deep future.
Also, I’d be very surprised if there are any sapient beings we’d immediately recognize as humans a million years from now.
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Now it’s been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew, now man’s reign is through
But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight
So very far away, maybe it’s only yesterday
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Because imperialism.
thats why I said 500 million years. in a billion years earth will be already to hostile for humans to survive.
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Yeah. If you separate large land mammals rather than just mammals it gets even worse for our predicted future. I remember Stephen Jay Gould arguing it was 1-2 million years (yes that’s a huge variation but it’s vague and the fossil record is incomplete). That’s for “successful” species obviously. And doesn’t account for mass extinction due to ecological disaster/fucking everything up.
well we might not know exactly how many years, but at least we know how many roads a man must walk down
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