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And they can also pray that their development environment still works on Linux 9.21
Maybe GNU Hurd will be on version 1 by then.
Maybe humans will no longer be responsible for maintaining software
Timeline of the far future
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#173> The length of the day used for astronomical timekeeping reaches about 86,401 SI seconds. Under the present-day timekeeping system, either a leap second would need to be added to the clock every single day, or else by then, in order to compensate, the length of the day would have had to have been officially lengthened by one SI second. Can you just imagine the amount of legacy code with DAY_SECONDS=86400 out there 5…
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#174The further I read, the smaller I feel.
The further I read, the smaller some of the issues we face today seem. I could spend my life fighting to prevent global warming or fix the world, but this list just makes me want to enjoy the time I have here with my loved ones... I don't know how I feel about these feelings.
Well... the odd thing about humans is we actually can do things about the events here, at least in the beginning of the timeline. Not us, but our descendants formed and molded by us today, just as you and I are the direct descendants of some microscopic organisms, actually a continuous living organism alive since life first sprung on Earth. Things like moving the Earth, moving to other Star Systems and galaxies, and more exotic ideas like engineering the course of the cosmos itself. You and your loved ones are part of that.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
The further I read, the smaller some of the issues we face today seem. I could spend my life fighting to prevent global warming or fix the world, but this list just makes me want to enjoy the time I have here with my loved ones... I don't know how I feel about these feelings.
> According to Berger and Loutre, the current interglacial period ends[14] sending the Earth back into a glacial period of the current ice age, regardless of the effects of anthropogenic global warming. According to that guy, there will be a new ice age in 50k years regardless of the current global warming being stopped or not.
If there are industrial humans then, it wouldn’t be hard to engineer supergreenhouse gases to mitigate that.
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#176> The red supergiant star Antares will likely have exploded in a supernova. The explosion is expected to be easily visible in daylight. Wow, I'd love to be able to see that. Makes one sad about all the things they'll never get to experience.
Actually, the prediction accuracy here is more like "may go off any time". Likewise, for Betelgeuse (the brightest star of Orion), which would also be visible in daylight.
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#177This is extremely interesting, but couldn't it be that in 10.000 our technology has advanced so much that we are able to "refill" dying stars for example? I mean, look at how much we have achieved in the past 1000 years, exponential technology growth over a timefrime 10x that can be unimaginable now.
These are cool predictions but they need not be true
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#178This is extremely interesting, but couldn't it be that in 10.000 our technology has advanced so much that we are able to "refill" dying stars for example? I mean, look at how much we have achieved in the past 1000 years, exponential technology growth over a timefrime 10x that can be unimaginable now. These are cool predictions but they need not be true
I've never figured out why people think technological growth would be exponential indefinitely.
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#179This is extremely interesting, but couldn't it be that in 10.000 our technology has advanced so much that we are able to "refill" dying stars for example? I mean, look at how much we have achieved in the past 1000 years, exponential technology growth over a timefrime 10x that can be unimaginable now. These are cool predictions but they need not be true
I've never figured out why people think technological growth would be exponential indefinitely.
on an exponential scale 10000 years is just one step ahead.
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One should maintain some perspective: Coral reefs have gone through enormous variations in extent and location, and near extinction, many times since 500 million years ago. Not even the last Ice Age or CO2 levels 10x higher than what we have today managed to cause the extinction of coral.
How does this near extinction compare to previous ones?
We're not currently witnessing a near-extinction.