Timeline of the Far Future.

[Cain]

I read the timeline of the near future, and discovered a startling omission:  in the 2180s, there is no mention of Commander Shepard successfully punching, kicking and electrocuting every single species in the galaxy.

[Doktor Howl]

Cant see link on phone but yeah that sort of stuff messes you up. 600 million is around the time that earth starts becoming uninhabitable right? Something like not enough carbon dioxide for plant life to survive? The dark era of the universe messes with my head.

Yeah. It is fucking with me, major. I mean, 600 million years is how long it's been since the Cambrian, more or less.

Shit. I'm just going to stop thinking about it. If humans last that long, I suspect we will have future tech to the level of moving stars, or cloning planets, or transporting biospheres to new worlds.

I just find it strange that the /beginnings/ stuff, which is also about a sense of space and deep time and huge scale, and terrifies a great deal of people, and that stuff is EXPANSIVE for me. It's the stuff on that page that gets me.

Put in proper terms, we have 300 times more future than we as a species has as a past.

[Faust]

Do not read unless you want to be a in a screwed up headspace. I, personally, made a mistake in clicking.

Only other comment: 600 million years, that's it? ;_;

That sounds optimistic. I'm sure we can accelerate that a bit.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Cant see link on phone but yeah that sort of stuff messes you up. 600 million is around the time that earth starts becoming uninhabitable right? Something like not enough carbon dioxide for plant life to survive? The dark era of the universe messes with my head.

Yeah. It is fucking with me, major. I mean, 600 million years is how long it's been since the Cambrian, more or less.

Shit. I'm just going to stop thinking about it. If humans last that long, I suspect we will have future tech to the level of moving stars, or cloning planets, or transporting biospheres to new worlds.

I just find it strange that the /beginnings/ stuff, which is also about a sense of space and deep time and huge scale, and terrifies a great deal of people, and that stuff is EXPANSIVE for me. It's the stuff on that page that gets me.

Put in proper terms, we have 300 times more future than we as a species has as a past.

That's pretty cool. I wonder if our descendants will look like us? I mean, technically they might not even be the same species.

[Doktor Howl]

Cant see link on phone but yeah that sort of stuff messes you up. 600 million is around the time that earth starts becoming uninhabitable right? Something like not enough carbon dioxide for plant life to survive? The dark era of the universe messes with my head.

Yeah. It is fucking with me, major. I mean, 600 million years is how long it's been since the Cambrian, more or less.

Shit. I'm just going to stop thinking about it. If humans last that long, I suspect we will have future tech to the level of moving stars, or cloning planets, or transporting biospheres to new worlds.

I just find it strange that the /beginnings/ stuff, which is also about a sense of space and deep time and huge scale, and terrifies a great deal of people, and that stuff is EXPANSIVE for me. It's the stuff on that page that gets me.

Put in proper terms, we have 300 times more future than we as a species has as a past.

That's pretty cool. I wonder if our descendants will look like us? I mean, technically they might not even be the same species.

I'm reasonably certain they'll look similar, but not the same.

Years and years ago, back when I was just a little girl, the Chicago Tribune ran an article called "Lucy in the Subway With Hominids", and discussed what would happen as you put more and more distant ancestors in a subway car with commuters.  Cromagnon man and Neandrathals wouldn't raise any fuss, as their looks (we believe) are within the norms for modern humans.  By the time you get back to Lucy, people are screaming and running into another car.

I like the idea that future humans, digging up our remains, will consider us monstrous, and I like the idea that almost everything they will come to believe about us will be utterly, completely wrong.   

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Maybe they'll find a frozen McDonald's. Like a bunch of Icemen. Or rather, mastodons.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Maybe they'll find a frozen McDonald's. Like a bunch of Icemen. Or rather, mastodons.

The fries will still be "edible."

But not nearly as healthy for them as several thousands of years old Egyptian tomb honey.

[AFK]

Do not read unless you want to be a in a screwed up headspace. I, personally, made a mistake in clicking.

Only other comment: 600 million years, that's it? ;_;

No way, I love this stuff.  I love shows like The Universe, and Through the Wormhole, where they show all of the stuff that's going to happen a long time from now that is inconsequential to us because we'll all be extinct or whatever.  Of course, I always figure into all of the stuff the very probable possibility that it's all bullshit and what actually will happen will be completely different.