Man I think it’s so damn optimistic that you think we’ll be around long enough to be an elder race, or even leave enough of a mark to be called a precursor.
No but we can estimate the total age before cosmic inflation renders the universe cold and so far spread out so as to be considered “dead”
That timeline is around 10^27 years, of which we only right now have been around for about 10^9. So we are VERY young compared to the max age. On the cosmological timescale, we are still “being born”
Another factor is estimating the total amount of hydrogen available to form new stars. The last estimate I heard was nine times as much as is currently bound up in stars.
The universe is too young for that to be likely.
Yup, all the evidence scientists point to agree that if anything we are early to the party.
It’s wild to think that we may be what aliens call “the elder races” or “precursors” or something like that, depending on if we survive that long.
For reals! Then the young races introduce themselves and we demand they dab as an introduction lol
I hope we are more like these humans, in this story.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WRickWritesSciFi/comments/1arv55q/now_i_am_become_death_the_destroyer_of_worlds/
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Man I think it’s so damn optimistic that you think we’ll be around long enough to be an elder race, or even leave enough of a mark to be called a precursor.
I agree, that’s why I added the caveat. Doesn’t seem very likely… But it’s so interesting to think about
Our elephants may become the precursors, we are likely to just become a thrall race.
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No but we can estimate the total age before cosmic inflation renders the universe cold and so far spread out so as to be considered “dead”
That timeline is around 10^27 years, of which we only right now have been around for about 10^9. So we are VERY young compared to the max age. On the cosmological timescale, we are still “being born”
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Another factor is estimating the total amount of hydrogen available to form new stars. The last estimate I heard was nine times as much as is currently bound up in stars.
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