If you can live ‘forever’ then it doesn’t matter what happens to our galaxy. I estimate there are probably around 1 or 2 planets with intelligent life + at some point + in any given average sized galaxy. The longer the universe goes on, the higher the proportion of those intelligent species that will make it to that stage – living very long lives. Eventually there will be tones of humanoids and maybe other types, and they will all be able to communicate and move to any x,y,z, spatial location virtually instantly. The size and distances involved wont mean anything, so when this planet > galaxy e.g. ends up inside its own black hole or something, you just move elsewhere.
The actual length of the universe in time is probably denumerable? Even if we lasted millions or billions of years, that wont touch its full duration.
I think this could begin within 10 years, no its not quite out of range.
I question the ethic of living endlessly though, because I think we become out of touch and have increasingly less of the youthful inspiration and what have you. Perhaps death is a natural part of our cycles as well as its [natures]?
Deathlessness is a natural phenomenon. So if humans or their successors will have become capable of living forever, then they will have reached a natural goal via culture / art. This shows that all development is probably cyclic or helical.
You both say with such certainty that humans (in whatever future form) will be around to have to deal with our sun’s/our galaxy’s transformation. I am not saying that we won’t be, but there is a possibility that we won’t be… are you allowing for contingencies?
Of course… it would be amazing if humans reach that point in time… just that we won’t be there to witness it
humans will change even if it were the same humans imho. but I think what Arminius is suggesting, is that there is something about nature which returns to successful ideas. to wit I concur, and I think humanoids have probably existed for as long as life somewhere has been around for long enough for evolution to arrive at humanoids.
Since life has existed in the universe throughout an infinite past, it is apparent that life doesn’t ever actually fill the universe. And that means that either life is only short lived in every case or that life spreads too slowly to fill space even given an infinity of time (which is a real possibility because space is more vast than time).
The more demanding life becomes to avoid death, the more restrained life becomes so as to achieve such a goal. So if life ever achieved total immortality, it must be adhering to exactly what is required to do so and those rules might require it to be so efficient, that it simply can’t ever afford to go haplessly gallivanting across the galaxy. In order to stay alive, it must stay confined. And such confinement might be so very far from other civilizations throughout the universe that none ever get to encounter the others without risk of complete annihilation of their own critical resources.
So again, the options are:
[list]A) ALL life is limited in duration
B) Immortal life is confined to isolation from others[/list:u]
But if “immortal life is confined to isolation from others”, then this means that “others” also exist, and if this “others” are also living beings, then it does additonally mean that “immortal life is confined to isolation from” other life (thus: mortal life).
I hope so.
I’m talking about Heaven itself. And when I get there it’s AJ’s hot applejack legs spread wide open, with her giant glistening 10 inch clit throbbing in marvelous, strong, noble, applebucking glory.