anyone that thinks humans will be around in even a million years time is, imho, delusional. we were not there up until now in that timespan, and won't be after it.
and don't get started on living on mars, or elsewhere - not going to happen.
and don't get started on living on mars, or elsewhere - not going to happen.
I am not that interested in the opinion of people insistent that humans won’t exist in the future (and calling those who disagree “delusional”) if those people have a flawed understanding of human existence in the past.
i don't think the primate tree is going to be terminated that soon, but i think it might be pruned.
And I think our version of seafaring, spacefaring, will be fruitful over a timescale of thousands of years, and maybe much shorter than that.
Our ancestors walked from Africa to the corners of the globe. Today, the cheapest and safest way to travel thousands of miles (as well as the most common) is to hurtle across the sky at nearly the speed of sound at altitudes that would kill you if not in a pressurized volume. The energy used for this, a round trip from one side of the globe to the other, is about the same as needed to place you in orbit (with hyper-optimized chemical rockets). I don’t see why we think the last ~50 years is the end of such progress of our technology.
It's a specious argument. Just because our species lifespan has been short until now doesn't mean anything about how long it will last from here out.
There are other, legitimate reasons to think maybe humans won't last very long, but, this certainly isn't one.
It is pretty delusional to claim knowledge of what is going to happen to us in this time frame be it one way or the other