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Yeah, if we get to the point where humans (or whatever our evolutionary progeny are can't imagine it'd be anything resembling humans today) are still around when that starts happening at 10^28 years which is ~10^17 years from now I'll consider that a job extremely well done as a species/civilization.



10^28 years is ~10^17 years from now? I think you either typoed or your math is faulty...


I just messed up the math. It should be 10^19. Either way it'd be an unqualified success.


I still think you're incorrect. If we're at 10^13 years, then 10^28 minus 10^13 is, essentially, 10^28 years from now.

> Either way it'd be an unqualified success.

Certainly. I'm just picking nits on the math.


Oh wow yeah. Well too late to edit the original now. My math mistake shall live on.




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