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by HarHarVeryFunny
249 days ago
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> There will be no successor civilization to humans. Earth won't be able to support multicellular life in a few hundred million years due to the sun becoming gradually more luminous over time Modern humans have only been around for < 1 millions years, and all the technology we have invented is incredibly recent. 200 years ago we had neither electric light or bicycles. Over the course of 100s of millions of years, as the sun's increasing luminosity becomes an issue, I'd have to assume we could create some sort of atmospheric solar shield to reflect or absorb a lot of the energy. Of course you can only postpone the inevitable (red giant). Assuming the evolutionary lineage of our species survives a few hundred more million years (which seems rather doubtful), then it's not going to be homo sapiens any more - we'll have evolved into successor species that may be barely recognizable. If you go BACK in time 100M years, our ancestor was some mouse-like animal. |
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