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ObligatoryOption t1_jbr7xfy wrote

Humanity may never become an interstellar species for an entirely different reason. Just as Homo sapiens barely existed 300,000 years ago, it may no longer exist in another 300,000 years by virtue of having evolved into another species, or even several other species. Some may evolve into a species better suited for space habitation: less reliance on skeletal structure, less oxygen needs, extreme longevity, perhaps resistance to the effects of cosmic radiation, things like that. These may reach other stars, and while they would no longer be considered human beings, they would owe their existence to their ancestors, of which you may be one.

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hahsire t1_jbrfbcy wrote

I wonder what people who keep living on earth will evolve into. Some sort of urbanist creatures?

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ul_sorty OP t1_jbru7q8 wrote

If they evolved from us and still held information from the past im pretty sure they would still be humans cause what did we call other members of the homo genus... Humans. Yeah ik they wont be homo sapiens but they most likely will still fall under the homo genus so they will still be human. Also ik what you where trying to say, and that is true it doesn't really help with the some what irrational nature of existential dread. And i know for a fact i will be most likely no one ancestor

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