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60,000 years ago, humans were just leaving Africa. So I would be impressed if 60,000 years from now, anyone remembers that Voyager is still out there!

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I really wish I could see the progress humans make over the next 60,000 years. Shout out to all my ancestors in 62017!

I think you mean descendants.

There was an accident involving a contraceptive and a time machine.

Very likely there won't be humans in the next 100 to 500 years, assuming any reasonable rate of progress. Humans will quickly change themselves biologically, technologically, we are going transhuman.

That's very optimistic. There are are two pretty likely outcomes: humans will solve our problems, bring about peace, colonize Mars and voyage out into space ... or... we go extinct. We might waver between tech and stoneage for a bit with some war, but eventually we're likely to converge on one of those two.

Looking at humanity today .. I'm thinking we'll go extinct. Love your loved ones. Don't spent too much time in the office. Life is too short to not really live, cause there's a good chance literally no one will remember us a million years from now.

At the end were just apes with super computers. 100-500 years is not a long time.

The fact that ohur president in 2017 constantly throws out threats of nuclear war on a mass communication platform and yet has a sizable support says humans are fundamentally flawed. Just needs a few bad actors at the top and we'd be over.

Sure we will, in my opinion, Forgotten is the biggest weakness we human have.

Just watching those kids quantum stream their lifes in the Andromeda, yet none of them even mentioned the good old Voyager 1.

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