why only 100 million more years for humans? Seems like we could exist so long as the universe does. Maybe I missed it in the video.
RE: Does life compete with itself to see which design pattern (genetic code) will survive the longest?
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Does life compete with itself to see which design pattern (genetic code) will survive the longest?
Definitely not. Mammals don't really have good advantages for extremes (extreme hot, extreme cold, extreme gravity or extreme lack of gravity, extreme radiation and so on...). We simply can't last because we aren't built to last. Life such as insects, bacteria, etc, have had many more years of evolution and evolve at a much faster rate. So there are lifeforms designed for maximum resilience but we are one of the more fragile species.
We will have to find a new earth like planet in the next 10,000 years or we will likely go extinct. There is also a limit (due to laws of physics) which indicate that no matter what we ever do we will not be able to reach far outside of our very limited narrow section of the universe. This is due to the rate of expansion of the universe and the fact that we cannot ever travel faster than the speed of light which means most of the universe will forever remain inaccessible no matter what technology we ever develop.
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good points, so I guess assuming light is the theoretical limit of speed of travel, unless there are worm holes, we are trapped in this quadrant of space subject to resource constraints?
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