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Milky Way and Andromeda will hit each other head on

^ Only in the bizzare world inhabited by Robert Zubrin does a process that takes a million years and involves the transplant of a yellow dwarf star into our solar system "easier than terraforming."

It is easier to move a star than a planet since a star is basically already its own power source. A monstrous fusion reactor.

If you had the technology to even seriously think about harnessing the power of a star for propulsive purposes, moving a planet to a new orbit would be trivially easy.

More to the point: terraforming -- the intentional change of a planet's atmosphere to alter its average global climate and gas mixture -- doesn't require any new technology we don't already have (just massive amounts OF it applied for an incredibly long period of time). We do not even have a serious concept of what kind of technology would be needed to directly harness the power of a star in sufficient quantity to MOVE that entire star across interstellar distances; we do not now even know HOW to move things across interstellar distances, and transporting a star across that gulf is a whole other ballpark.

How would Robert Zubrin change a lightbulb? He'd build a tiny black hole in your living room and then harness its hawking radiation to emit a limitless source of visible light. That's got to be easier than walking down the street and buying a new one.
 
Man will not exist in a few billion years.

It's an interesting question, really. How much of a role will evolution continue to play in our existence as a species? We really have no way of knowing how we'll change overtime, especially with technology at our disposal.

Of course, a few billion years is a long fucking time. Who knows what will happen?
 
Man will not exist in a few billion years.

It's an interesting question, really. How much of a role will evolution continue to play in our existence as a species? We really have no way of knowing how we'll change overtime, especially with technology at our disposal.

Of course, a few billion years is a long fucking time. Who knows what will happen?

I don't think evolution "just stops." As I said above, whatever will exist when our sun turns into a red giant will be as far removed from us as we are to the very first forms of life on this planet.
 
^True. However the rate of mutations can change.

Also, with the advances of technology, any "undesired" traits would made moot. Anybody will be able to reproduce. Deaf and Blind people can have kids nowadays, regardless of the gene(s) that might have caused the dual-sense loss.

However, you are correct in saying that Humanity as we know it would not exist that far into the future. We would be like the Q ;)
 
^ That or we would become humanoid cats running a hospital in New New York. Significantly, evolving godlike Q powers is pretty much the one thing that is guaranteed NOT to happen.
 
Life would have been difficult for a blind and deaf Austalopithecus afarensis....


Even 5,000 years ago, it wouldn't have been easy for them to live long or be able to find someone who would want to have a kid with them...
 
4 billion years? I'll make a note of it in my post-singularity trans-human super-consciousness diary. If I'm still occupying this level of existence, I may vacation in Virgo. Cheers! :techman:
 
Cats may become sentient creatures in their own right, but we're still sapian.

Unless y'all got plans I don't want to know about...
 
I'm pretty sure we'll be long gone and sapient ponies will have inhabited the Earth by that time.
 
I'm pretty sure we'll be long gone and sapient ponies will have inhabited the Earth by that time.

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