Or to put it another way, it's extremely unlikely that anything we could recognize as human will be living here in 500M years, give that is 5000 times as long as our species has existed so far (and we're changing ourselves and environment faster and faster).
Non-biological humanity is such a solution. It makes travel to other systems much easier if we don't have to worry about generations of humans or messy biological needs.
And for whatever vestiges wish to remain, we could collect the gasses the Sun sloughs off during its red giant phase and use them for fuel, as well as moving closer in - and we wouldn't need the Earth.
The gas giants could provide a lot of fuel after stars die. Interstellar gas is even more abundant if harder to collect. You can also gain quite a bit of energy from dumping matter into black holes. What to do after that point is a much more difficult question.
However it is possible that the perfect machine ends up being largely the same as human beings with a built in evolutionary path for advancement. Such machines would then face the same problems.
Extraordinarism - the ideology to think one is seperate from nature that brought the species into existence. Related to other ideologys that considered humans the crown of creation or the source of all evils.
Most distinguishing feature of the ideology? A inability to watch ones own existence and the existence of ones species with a relaxed attitude. Often driven to extremes by massive consumer guilt, and by the dawning realisation that none of the stated statements contributes to problem solving.
"Humanity is so evil, even the devil is afraid we could take his soul. We eat soda cans and drink babys. We should all feel ashamed and do nothing waiting for the end to come, soon.."
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[ 148 ms ] story [ 1184 ms ] threadHumanity is cancer, we are parasites on the ecosystem
Oblivion is the only way out
Embrace the void
And for whatever vestiges wish to remain, we could collect the gasses the Sun sloughs off during its red giant phase and use them for fuel, as well as moving closer in - and we wouldn't need the Earth.
"Humanity is so evil, even the devil is afraid we could take his soul. We eat soda cans and drink babys. We should all feel ashamed and do nothing waiting for the end to come, soon.."