Wikipedia's mindblowing timeline of the far future

I’ll take that bet. If humanity is exterminated, I’ll owe you a beer. But if we reach heat death, it’s on you.

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The WIkipedia (WP) article at Timeline of the far future offers the possibility that our descendants may still be around in 800 million years! While I like WP’s eternal optimism, I’m personally even more optimistic than that, hoping that our species might have found some kind of a solution to our kind’s seemingly eternal struggle to find true inner contentment, long before that (and I do actually believe that such a thing may exist, and not through mutual extermination.) Ah… the folly of eternal optimism…

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