The end of Earth, the end of us, and the end of the universe

[A Guy]

Humanity is obsessed with history. I don’t know why, but for the most part we would much rather lose ourselves in reverie than contemplate the future. Even when we do think of the future, it’s nearly always constrained to our future, usually just a handful of years hence. It is a rare person indeed who thinks of 50 or 100 years in the future — but what about 1,000 years? Or a million years? Or a billion years?

Will humanity still exist? Will the Pyramids of Giza still exist? Will Earth or the Solar System exist?

Source

A Guy

 

[Dinesh]

It'll forever remain as a mystery...

 

[boohbah]

Heavy man.

 

[smarteyeball]

It is a rare person indeed who thinks of 50 or 100 years in the future — but what about 1,000 years? Or a million years? Or a billion years?

I must be rare then...

 

[boohbah]

^ they broke the mold

 

[Borg 386]

Heavy man.

:roflmao:Wow, haven't seen the Freak Brothers in years.....I think I still have some of their comics in the attic.

 

[Phone Man]

This is talking about the future of our physical world, which supposedly had a beginning and will have an end. But millions of people believe we also have a soul and part of a spiritual world that had no beginning and therefore will have no end. When you think about that, the physical world is of no consequence for our future.

Jim

 

[Imperfect1]

Sure hope you're right, Jim!

 

[smarteyeball]

^ they broke the mold

That hey did. And subsequently decided it was not worth repairing

 

[seavixen32]

I don't know about the end of the world.

I failed to take my wife her wake-up coffee this morning and listening to the rumblings from the bathroom suggests my world is going to end pretty quick if the coffee hasn't arrived before she's finished her ablutions.

 

[BlackSparrow]

I doubt that the world will end... but hey, shrouded in mystery D:

 

[Borg 386]

Perhaps one day in the distant future another life form will land here, find traces of our once flourishing civilization and wonder about what we were like, just as archeologists nowadays speculate on ancient civilizations from our past.

 

[Trucidation]

Perhaps one day in the distant future another life form will land here, find traces of our once flourishing civilization and wonder about what we were like, just as archeologists nowadays speculate on ancient civilizations from our past.

They will unearth an intact dvd containing a Maury show episode and conclude that we killed ourselves

Don't the Mayans say the world is supposed to end December this year or something?

 

[A Guy]

A Guy

 

[headhuntr117]

Hmmmm.... Thinking about this makes me think that we only think of the "sooner" coming years not the billions of years or so.

 

[xarden]

Sounds like sheer folly.
He has no scientific data to back up his claims.

 

[A Guy]

We'll see in a billion years, if he is wrong, we'll all have a good laugh

A Guy

 

[kronckew]

it'll be life jim, but not as we know it.