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What do YOU think will happen 800,000 years from now?


While watching this film (and reading the book), I was only curious of how accurate this would be. In 800,000 years, will Earth by like the events in the movies/book?

What do you think the Earth will be like?

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Thank you. :)

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If you listen carefully to the campaigning repugs these days, it's clear that the earth won't merely have another 800000 Minutes, let alone 800000 years! :(

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Gasoline will be 6 dollars a gallon.

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6 dollars a teaspoon more like it.

We live in a world filled with deception. It's hard to pick out the truth.

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MagicCock : Isnt corporations and rich persons already have political power since the first time. They can do it by supporting presidential candidates campaign by money and something like that

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Nobody can predict how earth will be 800000 years in the future, sure you can run tectonic simulations to envision the appearance and position of earth's land masses but there are many other aspects that can't be predicted like huge meteor impacts, climate changes and i don't mean global warming, i mean ice ages that significantly change the landscapes and a lot of other unknown or impossible to predict factors. One thing is certain, the human race will be long gone either because of some catastrophic event, man-made or natural, or simply abandoned earth in search of other worlds to colonize. Nature will reclaim the land and from what you see on the surface there will be no evidence that the human race even existed, the only clues will be burried under a thick layer. Makes you wonder if we were the only technologically advanced civilization, what if there were others but so long ago, that even if they left evidence it has long been destroyed or is burried so deep there is no chance ever finding it.

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So pessimistic BigBlockV8. What makes you so sure humans won't be around 800,000 years from now? Humans disapearing is certainly possible but not most likely.

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The more complex a species is the more volatile it seems to be. 800000 years is a relatively long time, there were no humans 800k years ago and I doubt there will be in 800k years. We're less likely to survive a long time than simpler lifeforms. I predict the earth will look more similar to how it looked 800k years ago than how it looks today.

Maybe eventually some lifeform superior to us will have evolved but probably not in 800k years and I don't think it will have evolved from us.

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We've been around for about 2,000,000 years since the first primates and 140,000(?) since first signs of modern man (the latest version humans out there). I can not really imagine us going on for another 150,000 years. We will probably perish bu then.

If we don't intervene with our genes and let evolution continue, with our living conditions changing so drastically i don't think evolution would do us any good other than random changes not beneficial in any ways. Would we notice if eyesight kept degrading through thousands of years. We would just keep fixing individuals born with bad eyesight, and more would come along the way.

Anyways, if we assume a 800,000 year life span for intelligent species, we would have no clue about the few dozens before us, some of whomn may have left for the stars, and others who failed and were buried among the sands. And when we're gone, nature would take another shot at it in a few million years.

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That is rather pessimistic last-c. Although humans perishing in the next 800,000 years is certainly possible. It is not most likely.

We have the intelligence to develop technology to live in outer space and colonize other planets. So a natural disaster becomes less likely to render the species extinct as time goes on.

Poor eyesight is not one hundred percent genetic. And even people with bad eyesight can live healthy and productive lives.

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Movieliker is sure the optimist. Keeping an artifact intact for 800,000 years like the Brooklyn Bridge sign. You do realize that the the most ancient human artifacts we know are 100,000 or less years old?
And living in outer space or on another planet is not my idea of a good time. No rainbows or waterfalls. Always worrying if you have enough duct tape for your spacesuit, drinking your recycled urine.
How can we be happy and co-exist in space, if we can't here on Earth?

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100,000 years ago, people didn't have the technology or the desire to keep human artifacts intact that we have today.

There are so many planets in outer space that scientists agree there are probably thousands if not millions of habitable planets in the Universe. Some more comfortable than Earth. That means water, waterfalls and rainbows. Comfortable temperatures too, so no duct taped space suits.

I am happy here on Earth and I coexist with everybody. So, I could probably do it in outer space also.

Have you ever seen Star Trek; The Next Generation? That is a good predictor of where we will probably be in the future.


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You do realize that Star Trek is fiction, right?
And are you planning to travel many light-years away, through a wormhole, while in frozen suspended animation? Good times.

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Of course Star Trek is fiction. But it is based on science and imagination.

They didn't use frozen suspension animation on Star Trek. They had warp drive that would get them far in little time.

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And how far are we from getting to warp drive technology? That also requires matter/anti-matter power sources. I suppose it's possible given the leaps and bounds we've had, but going many, MANY times the speed of light is no mean feat. We were hoping to get space elevators given how our materials technology has improved, but that's still on the back burner.

Without warp engines or their equivalents, we're confined to our solar system. I can't see us making world/population ships, and making a 80K year journey to say, Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system besides our own. That's 2,500 generations of humans!

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That is kind of pessimistic christofferj. Although humans perishing in the next 800,000 years is certainly possible, it is not most likely. We have the intelligence to develop technology to live in outer space and colonize other planets. So some natural disaster is less likely to render the species extinct as time moves on.

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I think man will be living in outer space and on Earth, just like in Star Trek. We won't have separate countries. We will be one nation planet. All working for the betterment of humanity. People won't work for money. They will work for self-fulfillment and the betterment of humanity. The Earth won't be much different. But humanity will. The Earth will be a better place for everyone because people will be smarter, more able and more socialized. Everyone will be taken care of as long as they contribute.

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For one thing, the sign for the Brooklyn Bridge won't be readable.

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I assume you are joking DeepFriedJello. But the sign on the Brooklyn Bridge will be readable. Because people will take care of it and replace it when necessary.

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I was hoping this movie would have changed the time lines of Alex's traveling to say 800 to the Eloi and then 8000 to the horror of a Morlock future... But then there wouldn't be a cool time travel sequence.

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Humans will be extinct in another 1000 years, probably sooner. So, in another 790,000 years, earth will be back to its natural state, devoid of human cancer.

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