Currently wondering: if humanity starts colonizing space now, will there still be enough time for members of the species to get outside the radius of a theoretical supernova of our sun?
Yeah, I'm thinking extinct is the most likely and unfortunate result here.
I guess the thing is, if there isn't an FTL trick that we can reasonably concoct given current resources, and there's no way to get outside of the radius of destruction in time, that's the ball game.
I prefer to think of a happy extinction -- we bootstrap other intelligences that are better suited to long-range planning and survival and we get downloaded to some sort of computational matrix that lets us experience so much time, we eventually terminate our program simply because our digitized consciousnesses just run out of things to do.
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I guess the thing is, if there isn't an FTL trick that we can reasonably concoct given current resources, and there's no way to get outside of the radius of destruction in time, that's the ball game.
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I prefer to think of a happy extinction -- we bootstrap other intelligences that are better suited to long-range planning and survival and we get downloaded to some sort of computational matrix that lets us experience so much time, we eventually terminate our program simply because our digitized consciousnesses just run out of things to do.
blissful, really
Tom