Welcome to the forum, Sky Milinet. Do we have just one foul human? All species exist for their time. There will sure be a time when humans will not exist but life may continue on earth for a billion year. That is the limit of life on earth before the sun dries it out.
Indispensable to what exactly?
I don't know. I suppose indispensible to each other and possibly to whatever the Grand Purpose of the Universe is. That wasn't my point.
Okay. It would be a pity, though, if before one thousandth of that time will have passed, mankind would not have brought life, including its own, to other planets. In a billion years, which is for me an unimaginably huge number of days and nights and generations and incredible discoveries and never imagined technologies, maybe even to another galaxy.
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It doesn't make sense!? Wow. That's remarkable.
I was responding to the remark in the opening post, belittling one particular species out of all others, which remark relied on a fallacy of generalization.
That is sadly unimaginative. You would profit from reading Olaf Stapeldon's "Starmaker" or perhaps William Tenn's 'Brooklyn Project'. There was a conference on xenobiology several years ago with presentations on alternative biochemistries. I don't have that at hand, but the propositions were stimulating. Also, Analog Science Fact & Fiction (or was it vice versa¿), back when Joseph Campbell was editor, published many stories of other evolutions.
Luck is neither an agent nor an instrument, so it plays no role in natural relationships.
You see, the earliest fish happened only about 350 million year ago (Carboniferous era) out of the 4.78 billion years of Earth. Since then, many species have come and gone. How long do you think humans will last? Perhaps we will be able to establish colonies on Mars, but we cannot take our future billions to Mars. I do not think we can go to a planet of any other star in the Milky Way galaxy, so talking about other galaxies is Star Trek, the distances make it impossible.
Obviously, I wholeheartedly disagree. Not being an atheist, and believing humans are more than animals, I do not share your sense of hopelessness and despair. But to each his own.You see, the earliest fish happened only about 350 million year ago (Carboniferous era) out of the 4.78 billion years of Earth. Since then, many species have come and gone. How long do you think humans will last? Perhaps we will be able to establish colonies on Mars, but we cannot take our future billions to Mars. I do not think we can go to a planet of any other star in the Milky Way galaxy, so talking about other galaxies is Star Trek, the distances make it impossible.
It will be a fiery death when the sun starts turning into a red-dwarf in about a billion year's time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#After_core_hydrogen_exhaustion). Sun would not have a cold death, for around the same time when the sun becomes a full-fledged red dwarf, in five billion years, the Andromeda galaxy is likely to smash into us (i.e., the Milky Way galaxy).
"The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are expected to collide in around 4–5 billion years, merging to potentially form a giant elliptical galaxy."
So, banish the pride that we are humans. We are not something other than animals. And we need to conduct our affairs more wisely. And we have a time-limit to our existence on earth. No God can save us from it.Andromeda Galaxy - Wikipedia
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Where is hopelessness? It is acceptance of facts, just as in case of death. How does false hope help?
You really believe you are regurgitating facts without any interpretation of the facts whatsoever?
Kindly do that for me.
This makes me think of this:
