do you ever wonder about the human species that's going to come after ours, what they're going to think about our ruins how they're going to react when they realise what all the satellite dishes were pointed at
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will we wipe ourselves totally and permanently out, clearing the slate for some other intelligent species to evolve, or will there be rising and falling tides of human existence for thousands or millions of years, and will we be able to track time over that span
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there's a kind of anthropic principle here: what are the odds that of all the intelligent civilisations to rule Earth, we were the first? not the tenth or hundredth?
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is it pure chance that we're the first, a one in a hundred chance? or is it that there is only ever one, at most
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do you ever worry that future centuries despise this one for what we took from them and left them with
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there is no intelligent life anywhere reachable across space from Earth. but across deep time, thousands of years away, there are people what is it like out there
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"1970-" is a four-chapter story set in a distant future on this timescale https://qntm.org/1970- it's a substory of my novel "Fine Structure" but it stands well alone
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high. any kind of mass structural projects would show in geological layers *somewhere*.
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no, I mean, why aren't we the descendant civilisation. how many civilisations are there per planet, and what are the odds that we'd be number 1
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