Best case scenario to be sure.
One million years from now...
Submitted 1 year ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 year ago
For sure.
But tbf it’s still a bold assumption that afte only a million years biodiversity would rebound to the point to support (mega)fauna like that again.
Hoping for the best.
Johanno@feddit.de 1 year ago
Actually the fauna comes back really quick. After only a hundred years when nothing is maintenaned the plants will cover most of our infrastructure.
After probably 500 years most constructions are probably only hills.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 year ago
oh no, more pro-extinction on lemmy, fun…
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You need only look at how our species treats one another, despite claiming to know better, to understand why.
If you’re proud of our species, good for you.
Sordid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s cute and all, but it ain’t gonna be birds and deer who gets life off this rock once the Sun starts threatening to swallow it in a few billion years. We’re screwing up badly in the short term, but we’re the only hope Earth life has in the long term.
letsgocrazy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
A thousand times this.
I’ve used this argument before arguing with hippies about “integrating with nature”.
Any society that isn’t on track to developing the science and engineering necessary for interstellar tavel is a dead end.
It’s a tragic waste of human intelligence to keep making the same bamboo huts indefinetly.
So some noble savage can live their lives on repeat for hundreds or millenia, and that’s somehow better than inventing an arc that can save every form of life on this unique Planet?
Bloody stupid hippy nonsense.
emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
What makes life on another planet more worthwhile than life here? Also humans didn’t take that long to evolve so there’s plenty of opportunity for a successor to us to reach the stars in a way that causes less suffering. For that matter, we could have simply taken a couple hundred extra years to get there and reduced human suffering by like a thousandfold with a more equitable society. Bloody stupid capitalist nonsense.
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We’re not going to make it until the sun swallows the earth. If there’s anything related to us left at that point then it wouldn’t be recognisable to us.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What makes them ‘savage’?
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Amen, all those movies where “All tech stops working, people learn to do things for themselves! Utopia acheived!” are garbage
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 1 year ago
As individuals, a lot of people are content to live a simple life of prosperity. They have a basic job, and a small family, and some basic luxuries - and they call it enough. Some people have a one-eyed focus on increasing their wealth throughout their lives; but not everyone is like that. People generally recognise that their lives are finite. Some try to aim for some kind of imaginary high-score in their life, and others just live a ‘normal’ life.
I’m now making an analogy. As a species, we can recognise that are time is finite; and we can choose to live that out in a stable simple prosperity, where we just look after our world (house) and get what we need for some basic luxuries, and be content. We could have a billion years of that. It’s a very long time. Or… we could aim for endless growth. We could consume as much as possible, and always aim for more. As we run out of resources and livable habitat on Earth, we must look to interstellar travel and spread to other planets. I don’t necessarily think that is a better choice.
When I was young, I use to think that humans needed to settle on other planets. But I don’t think that any more. Partially because I learnt about special relativity, and decided that unless we’re very very wrong about science so far, having connected colonies on other planets is not possible. But also because I realised that there is no intrinsic goal to spread human life as much as possible. There are other things of value. We don’t need that particular goal. I also use to think that personal immortality would be a good thing. I don’t really think that any more.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Until you find our unity with nature allows humans to transcend human form and ascend to a higher plane of existence. Oops.
scottyjoe9@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The heat death of the universe is inevitable anyway 🤷♂️
Sordid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So? Death from old age is inevitable too, that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop breathing or eating. All of life is just postponing the inevitable, but just because the inevitable is inevitable doesn’t mean we should stop postponing.
letsgocrazy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If human beings were the only intelligent life in the universe, then the difference between being wiped out by the sun versus the heat death of the universe is so mind boggling big, that it beggars belief.
So many - near infinite - civilisations could come and go.
Perhaps one of them would find a way to endure.
Spliffman1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t agree, I think it’s merely someone’s hypothesis… That being said, what we think about it is kinda irrelevant… We won’t be around to see if it happens or not lol
Spliffman1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Of the universe? You claim knowledge of things far beyond your comprehension… Or did you mean this tiny galaxy?
jarfil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Earth will become a molten blob in a few billion years… then over a billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion times later…
AffineConnection@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re assuming an eternal universe (as opposed to, e.g., a big crunch).
hydroel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t understand if this is sarcasm or if some people are actually that dense.
tubaruco@lemm.ee 1 year ago
eh, birds are already very intelligent. one of the species wil probably end up creating technology at some point (assuming all humans die without ending all life on earth)
Sordid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There is enough time for another intelligent species to evolve after us, the problem is that we’ve already used up all the easily accessible fossil fuels. That means they won’t have the energy sources necessary to have an industrial revolution and will be stuck at a pre-industrial tech level forever (or rather until the oceans boil off).
letsgocrazy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
OK but then they’ll fuck it up worse.
Spliffman1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Continue in your delusion if it helps you my son
Omgarm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are the horses a million years old or did humans go extinct recently and are they being snarky about it?
marcos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They are paleontologist supersmart-horses, many generations after their ancestors killed the last human.
They are also in a dome, decorated with a picture of mountains and a blue sky, that they set up to protect themselves from the remaining of the recent nuclear war.
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I totally wanna read a short story about this now!
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Good ending
_I_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A million years? That very generous (งツ)ว
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 1 year ago
I believe it’s more like a hundred thousand years for humans on earth to go extinct, and another nine hundred thousand to clean the traces.
jarfil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or a hundred (not thousand) to become transhuman and have every short living species forget we existed.
(my regards to SkyNet, StarlinkNet, The Matrix, or whatever)
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Whatever comes after us will be a consequence of us. Sort of like how all our modern bird species are echoes of the giant lizards of the crestatous period.
The world will never be “clean” of humanity’s traces. No more than it is clean of trilobites that gave us all this limestone or the carboniferous plants that gave us coal and oil.
The future will be whatever species are most fit to live in the world we have created.
Steak@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
“why does this grass taste like plastic?”
Not that they know what plastic is but ya know.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 1 year ago
The sad thing is, if we want life as we know it (that includes horses happily munching on grass) to continue existing, humans are it’s only shot.
It might me edgy and cool to wish humans to go instinct, but with it, potentially all life will go instinct.
SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 1 year ago
I mean not really once costal areas flood and the locations best for growing food change we will see massive issues with humanity surviving, the rest of the ecosystem would adapt, migrate and evolve to survive. Hell even chernobyl basically shows us even if we went the full nuclear option wildlife would bounce back better than before with just maybe shortened life expectancies. We are a lot more prone to die from changes than the wildlife on this planet is.
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think you’re underestimating our ability to save our own asses through technology.
Even if all the soil for growing food goes to crap, we can just engineer food crops that can grow in that soil. Hell, NASA has a research project exploring how to grow crops in moon (Or maybe it was martian) soil. Humans are one of the most adaptable species, because if natural processes are too slow we can just augment it through our technological prowess.
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 1 year ago
Short term, yes, no question. But long term (a million years ans beyond) we look at different challenges life on earth will face.
It’s a fact that it won’t simply continue existing indefinitely. And definitely not in the diversity we know now. It’s not likely for rabbits or another species to suddenly rise up to the task of inventing space travel. That would need way more time than what it takes for earth to be hit by an asteroid big enough so that life won’t bounce back. The same goes for other types of mass extinction. Only humans have at least a slight chance to make life endure beyond earth.
IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I have no mouth, and I must scream
nyonax@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
🎶 You are a fluke
of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
And whether you can hear it or not,
The universe
is laughing behind your back. 🎶FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Deteriorata! I love that “song!”
flango@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
Thanks a loot, I didn’t known it !
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’ll see it’s all a show
Keep ‘em laughin’ as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you!
callmepk@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For some reason I read this comic with voices from asdfmovie
Transcriptionist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Image Transcription:
A four-panel War and Peas comic.
The first panel shows two horse-like creatures standing in a field, munching on grass. Palm-like trees with yellow leaves and mountains are in the background. The creature on the left is brown and the creature on the right is grey. The text “Munch Munch” are over the brown creature.
The second panel shows the brown creature with its head raised up and a concerned look on its face, saying “Hey. Remember humans?”
The third panel shows the grey creature now with its head raised up, the background of nature has been replaced by an orange background, which is lighter in a circle around the area of the panel where the creature’s head and speech bubble are. The grey creature is saying “No.”
The fourth panel is a slightly zoomed in version of the first panel with the onomatopoeic munching text moved over the grey creature’s head.
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generic@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 year ago
You should mention that the first panel says “One million years from now.”
Transcriptionist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wow, can’t believe I forgot to put that part. Thanks for catching it!
Jastas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This made me think of the time machine song from Futurama. youtu.be/LE1drY3A418
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buycurious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would have also accepted:
“What’s a human?”
Spliffman1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Love this
echo64@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also, what all the humans are saying about the extinct species since we took over
negativenull@lemm.ee 1 year ago
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Do you think they’ll be extinct, transferred to computers, moved onto other corners of the universe, or become the horses?
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Growing up, I wanted to believe humanity could become like the Federation.
The reality is, we are significantly morally inferior to the Ferengi.
Kolrami@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The Ferengi became warp capable before they allowed women to wear clothes. I think you’re underselling us.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Between climate change and nuclear proliferation, I think extinction is what I’d put my money on.
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Yes.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We have way too much hubris about how we’re going about life. Acting like we own nature, and we aren’t actually a part of the ecosystem. And we have an existential crisis with climate change on our hands, and we’re basically doing fuck all about it.
In fact, we are increasing oil production in many places right now. Probably the dumbest thing people will look back on when there’s no more oil and climate change is in full swing. Why didn’t we try harder to change course when we had a chance?
Rolando@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because people could make money by not changing course.
(But you knew that…)
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yeah I don’t disagree. But people are also pretty adaptable, I think we can survive some pretty apocalyptic stuff. (That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do everything we can to stop climate change, I just think it’s pretty likely at least two people will survive)
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 1 year ago
I hope so badly that it's transferred into computers. We need to get there in the next few decades though or I'm gonna miss the boat. :-D
Nudding@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah man immortality in the meta verse sounds rad lmao.
Rinna@lemm.ee 1 year ago
All Tomorrows mantelopes after thousands of years of slowly loosing their sapience.
azurefirefly@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 year ago
That’s not funny
windie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hu… what?
eezeebee@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Image
RufusFirefly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The last time I saw a Wizard of id comic strip was in the early 70s.