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It's events like these that make me wish for some form of afterlife
by bradbot 5y ago
It's events like these that make me wish for some form of afterlife
- bobsmooth 5y agoI'd rather live long enough to see them.
- adastra22 5y agoThen work on extending human lifespan. This is something the average HN contributor could be making progress towards. E.g. make a YC company working on capability advancement in biotech, or enabling technologies like atomically precise manufacturing.
- NoSorryCannot 5y ago7 billion years has got to be a bit of a stretch goal, even if you're very bullish on biotech...
- fumar 5y agoDo we know of anything that has that type of lifespan outside of celestial bodies like planets?
- Beltalowda 5y agoBoth the earth and sun are about ~4.5 billion years old. 7 billion is completely off the charts.
- vimacs2 5y agoM type dwarfs can easily have a lifespan in the main sequence spanning many trillions of years with even their red giant phases estimated to outlasting even the main sequence of stars of our size. A steller mass black hole's estimated lifespan would of course make even these seem like an eyeblink by comparison.