Well, in a few million years the sun will burn out, and we won't have any choice but to migrate.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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that makes us potentially a very stupid species
No thanks. Why blame humanity for the crimes of one person?
If you're upset that humanity doesn't punish this person, it's because we're trapped in a system of violent control. It's not because people are stupid, it's because we fear for our lives. Nobody wants to be murdered, locked in a box, etc. We're not going to end this system by calling ourselves stupid. That just further serves our masters.
Maybe that’s a filter? Any civilisation that lets itself get trapped in a system of violent control under fear of death gets wiped out by the worst of itself?
Where did the world's richest person get his money? What is money?
Why blame humanity for the crimes of one person?
It's not one person that needs to be held to account, dis-empowered, guillotined, reformed and stripped of their ill-gotten gains. It's an entire class of billionaire oligarchs, cabal of political/global elites and exploitative corporations.
This seems backwards to me, since the latest variant of what we call Humans is the only species on this planet, that - to the best of my knowledge - ever attempted (a) leaving it and (b) destroying their own habitable climate (along with that of a large portion of all other species) on the planet.
in my humble opinion (a) Is the marvel of international science collaboration, probably one of the highest achievements of this species, (b) on the other hand is fueled by greed and incompetence in equal quantities and according to Hanlons razor, we shouldn't equate this to malice, even though it comes very easily to members of our species.
Say hello to my little friend, the bacteria! And a loooong line of his cousins, reaching the rabbits and beyond.
Yeah, at least normally resources are depleted by the number of organisms, not the greed of a few examples, but this is not a new thing.
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right, all eggs one basket? sure Jan.
The great filter might be likely happen due to some shape of truth in this world that we didn't yet understand, and understanding which will make you want to quit. Death by knowledge.
no. idk what makes you think that it would be an "either or" situation.
Honesty we should just sell the moon to private equity
It would be worth it if Elon Musk would move there.
It's free real-estate.
The great filter is some variation of the "effective altruist" scams tech oligarchs are running.
They not like us.
Unlikely.
We are eventually going to hit a real limit on the number of humans this planet can support. Whether or not we'll get there, that's not really in question. When we'll reach that point, that's harder to say, could be 5000 years, but I'd bet it's closer to 500. At some point, relatively soon, we are going to need to start expanding into near space, the moon, earth orbit.
It would be the same for any intelligent species. They start their existence in relative equilibrium, until they start outperforming other species, they shape the world to fit their needs, they invent machines, medicine, and then they are no longer in equilibrium, their numbers are steadily increasing. Any intelligent species will eventually be more successful than their planet can support.
But if a star system were surrounded by a Dyson Swarm, millions or even billions of free floating habitats and space stations orbiting the star, that's actually something we could detect. We know that isn't happening all over the galaxy, because we actually probably wouldn't miss that.
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Seems a bit late for that
Yeah at the very least learn how to be sustainable so they can use the time they have to live sustainably to advance tech to where its actually possible to move. I mean we have something like a billion years so 100mil should be a pretty safe bet sun wise. I mean we should do some space research but heck we even need to figure out how to sustainably use orbital space.