Best case scenario to be sure.
Are the horses a million years old or did humans go extinct recently and are they being snarky about it?
They are paleontologist supersmart-horses, many generations after their ancestors killed the last human.
They are also in a dome, decorated with a picture of mountains and a blue sky, that they set up to protect themselves from the remaining of the recent nuclear war.
I totally wanna read a short story about this now!
That’s cute and all, but it ain’t gonna be birds and deer who gets life off this rock once the Sun starts threatening to swallow it in a few billion years. We’re screwing up badly in the short term, but we’re the only hope Earth life has in the long term.
The heat death of the universe is inevitable anyway 🤷♂️
So? Death from old age is inevitable too, that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop breathing or eating. All of life is just postponing the inevitable, but just because the inevitable is inevitable doesn’t mean we should stop postponing.
Of the universe? You claim knowledge of things far beyond your comprehension… Or did you mean this tiny galaxy?
Love seeing someone act like a smug know-it-all while being ignorant to a pretty basic concept in cosmology.
Continue in your delusion if it helps you my son
I would have also accepted:
“What are humans?”
For some reason I read this comic with voices from asdfmovie
Also, what all the humans are saying about the extinct species since we took over
Good ending
Love this
Do you think humans became extinct, transferred into computers, moved onto other corners of the universe, or became the horses?
Growing up, I wanted to believe humanity could become like the humans of the Federation.
The reality is, we are significantly morally inferior to the Ferengi.
Between climate change and nuclear proliferation, I think extinction is what I’d put my money on.
We have way too much hubris about how we’re going about life. Acting like we own nature, and we aren’t actually a part of the ecosystem. And we have an existential crisis with climate change on our hands, and we’re basically doing fuck all about it.
In fact, we are increasing oil production in many places right now. Probably the dumbest thing people will look back on when there’s no more oil and climate change is in full swing. Why didn’t we try harder to change course when we had a chance?
Because people could make money by not changing course.
(But you knew that…)
Yeah I don’t disagree. But people are also pretty adaptable, I think we can survive some pretty apocalyptic stuff. (That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do everything we can to stop climate change, I just think it’s pretty likely at least two people will survive)
I’m reading a lot of variation about the minimum viable breeding population of humans from around 100 to over 1000, but no one says two.
Yeah inbreeding would be terrible. But anyway, I think it’s likely some people could survive an apocalypse.
Humans have almost gone extinct several times in our history. What makes you think we are special? Species go extinct all the time, just not usually by their own hands.
I hope so badly that it’s transferred into computers. We need to get there in the next few decades though or I’m gonna miss the boat. :-D
Yeah man immortality in the meta verse sounds rad lmao.
Have you seen the show Upload?
Hu… what?
