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Arne
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Humans could quite possibly spread the life of this planet to the many dead worlds out there. If the idea is to ensure the survival of life, long term, then humans could arguably offer a rare chance to do that. We could build seed ships (like in Songs of a distant Earth). We can also blow up dangerous asteroids with our giant moon laser / brave self-sacrificing astronauts.
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RTyp06
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We humans have only been on this earth for around 100k years or so. This is an Infinitesimal amount of time in the vast history of the earth. I'm sure she's seen far worse than us humans. Her delicate eco systems have been upset many, many times before us. And she'll be there long after we're gone.
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Arne
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The sun is getting larger and hotter. Some speculate that land life emerged only some 1 billion years ago because it was too cold before. In another one billion years it will be much too hot. So we landlubbers really only have a 2 billion year window, if things go their 'natural' course. Of course, in the far future the outer planets in the solar system will be hotter and maybe terraform-able.
I don't think the Earth has seen anything like us humans before. We a potential unlike that of any other creature of the past. We could arguably evolve into a form which enables us to go Type III and milk the stars for energy/matter for countless billions of years. This makes us more than a blip on an insignificant planet. It makes us a slightly larger galactic blip in mindbogglingly vast universe.
We also have the potential to completely sterilize the Earth with technomagic like grey goo.
It's very difficult to even try and predict 100 years into our future. That says something about our potential. A moth was still a moth 100 years ago. We learned to fly, sent a man to the moon, invented wireless global communication, and sucked up half of the world's oil deposits.
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Zeracles
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It could be the indirect solution to everything. Science makes us immortal, gives us robots to explore the universe, no need for more people. Sterilise everyone, population growth halts, fornicate till the end of time. Problems solved! And as people commit suicide, die in accident or something else, population begins falling. In the end, our race vanishes from the world. Still, it does solve the Earths problems. Survival of the risk-averse. In a few decades the outdoors will be the new wilderness. Can't say the sort of misery that drives people to suicide will have gone, but there'll be robots who won't let us do it.
The sun is getting larger and hotter. Some speculate that land life emerged only some 1 billion years ago because it was too cold before. In another one billion years it will be much too hot.
Nothing a nuclear winter won't fix
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ziper1221
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Maybe the are using the height of another sea, lets say Lake Titicaca?
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