Human extinction; is it avoidable? Are there any plausible theories on how humans could survive forever?

What do you mean the earth is a living thing? You believe it is sentient?

We only see modern human behaviors, language, figurative art, proto-religion start around forty thousand years ago

>what are the central Americans mining mercury
>what are the Chinese utilizing coal several thousand years before Europe
>what are the Sumerians literally wiping out the cedar rain forests for charcoal for copper and bronze smelting and farming
>what are the great plains tribes of the Americas cutting down trees and maintaining the great buffalo herds

Only the nigger wasn't able to carve his will onto the world and he will slide into extinction once resources get thin and he cannot adapt to living on his own.

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It would seem over a long enough period of time that the environment will change quicker than we could adapt.

The binary value of trust associated with humanity must first be resolved to a fuzzy logic value for this to be possible.

Bioengineering. It's pretty much the only way to control evolution.

Control it in the sense of rapidly ceasing to be baseline human more like. I don't know why you would have that tech and use it to stagnate into a living fossil.

This so much.

It doesn't need to be sentient in order to be a living system. Think of the plants, animals, mushrooms, bacteria, etc. All lifeforms on the planet working together, creating this huge, beautiful ecosystem we call Earth. All, except one. One that spreads uncontrollably, destroying everything around and even its own lifeground in the process. That's the literal definition of cancer.

Yes and the only species capable of spreading life beyond its own pale blue dot into the galaxy for as long as the stars last, far longer than our own sun which will scour this rock in another 3 billion years ending the great experiment of life. Cancers can't survive without a host, they certainly do not create new hosts or strive to function without one in space.

I don't see life spreading beyond Earth. Only very few humans ever left it, none of which started a colony on some other planet or moon, they're all equipped with latest technology and if the slightest thing goes wrong, they're dead, as they should be.
I'll give you that humanity has the potential to go forth and spread throughout the universe, but of course that's something we need to avoid at all costs. Just try to imagine the cruelty of humanity being brought to the likely existing numerous other lifeforms out there.

Bruh, implying a future galactic, post scarcity, trans-human, biologically (or otherwise) immortal society would face any of the same failings as current humans is silly. If lifes out there its not close making plenty of room for all biological shenanigans you could think of if thats your great goal of life to make happy lil trees like Bob Ross.

Get off the fuckin planet. not enough drive to leave this frontierless, over populated, dwindling resource, war stricken and doomed rock. Humans are so very blind

Yeah so we can go to an even more desolate, barren inhospitable rock than anything we could possible make here

Lol what is this even. I love it

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>Human extinction; is it avoidable?
On a long enough timeline, it is unavoidable. Here's a list of possibilities, from soonest to latest:
>1. Threats from outside of Earth - constant threats
>1a. Large meteor impact
>1b. Gamma ray burst
>1c. Black hole or stray planet in our solar system
>1d. Extraterrestrial intelligence
>2. We could cause our own extinction - constant threat
>2a. Nuclear war
>2b. Emerging technologies & scientific mishaps
>2c. Genetic engineering
>3. Massive climate change - a few hundred to thousands of years
>3a. Human-accellerated changes, as above
>3b. Supervolcano eruption
>3c. Changes in Milankovitch cycles
>3d. Continental layout
>4. Evolutionary competition - millions of years
>5. Solar activity
>5a. Increase in solar output due to shortage of hydrogen - 1b years
>5b. Sun becomes a red giant - 8b years
>6. Destruction due to collision between Milky Way and Andromeda - 4b years
>7. End of the universe:
>7a. Heat death, if theory is true - 1 to 100 trillion years
>7b. Other ends - unknown, and no clear timeline can be established.

Destruction due to collision between Milky Way and Andromeda - 4b years
is not a threat
galaxies are mostly made of empty space, if the sun was the size of a green pea (5mm diameter) the nearest stars would be 2.5 km away
at this scale, this 100 billion peas galaxy would extend over 15000 km
two galaxies colliding with each other give a very low (much less than 0.1%) probability to have ONE stellar collision, and exponentially less to have two, and there is only a 1/100 billion chance it might be the sun
so the galactic merger between Milky Way and Andromeda is not a threat

what will happen however is that the interstellar molecular clouds in both galaxies will collide and cause eddies that will contract and form gravitational attractors that will give birth to Mmmmillions of new stars all over the place