Topic: Humans

Anonymous A started this discussion 18 hours ago #139,216

How long do you think humans will exist?

All the exponential increase in population and technology happened in the last 200 years, we’re only a 300,000 year old species, but the universe is at least 13.8 billion years old.

Are we really lucky to be born so early or are we actually not lucky and this is the average human experience because we won’t last for that much longer?

Poll option	Votes	Percentage
We were born early	1	33%
We were born at an average time (halfway through the human era)	-	0%
We were born late and humanity will end soon	2	67%

Anonymous A (OP) double-posted this 18 hours ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #1,471,341

Apparently there have been 100 billion humans and there are only 8 billion alive right now.

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Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 6 hours ago, 12 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,471,476

We'll last. In some form. Humans are resilient. Even if we had global nuclear catastrophe there would be humans down in bunkers and scientists working to make the planet habitable or hold out long enough to repopulate, plus nobody is gonna nuke like the Democratic Republic of the Congo so even with nuclear winter (a phenomenon that's been criticized as unrealistic BTW in recent times) there would still be humans. Asians are like ants or cockroaches, bless them, you would never get rid of every last one and those guys have high IQs. Humanity will experience setbacks but we will be fine.

Chufffed !m8sJfgzmLE joined in and replied with this 2 hours ago, 3 hours later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,471,508

I wish I could see the lights go out from a lawnchair and a spaceship. It's a fitting end really.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth