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>>17356781
>Unless it becomes technologically possible to escape the universe.
Technology is not a never ending horn of plenty that people think it is and already we are starting to reach the limits of computers as dictated by restraints in scaling and physics. Most of the options on the pic you posted require a level of technology so far advanced and so theoretical that it might as well be magic. There is also the problem that right now everything is expanding away from everything on a cosmic scale so even if spaceflight off planet became a regular thing (it won't) we could only ever hope to visit our local cluster. But besides that even hoping for enough time to get to that sort of technology (if it can even be developed) kind of hinges on mankind not shooting itself in the foot and causing it's own extinction beforehand. Or if you want a more realistic appraisal because extinction is far fetched, before an event occurs that drastically reduces the human population and leaves us without the resources we are accustomed to having available.

The only real true hope that we have is that some form of string theory is correct and there will always be new universes popping into existence across an infinite plane of space time. Cold comfort because it's almost certain that we and they cannot detect or even interact with each other and while new universes may be beginning in other dimensions or regions on the infinite plane of spacetime our own will still be doomed to fizzle out and 'die'. The only good thing about infinity being that it does agree with Nietzsche's view of things, because the only way for you to be you is for literally every atomic position that ever occurred to occur in that same way again and for every event that shaped your life to occur again. And if things are indeed infinite that means that eventually there will be another "you" with your consciousness and memories and so on... but you won't realize it, and you will never realize it, you will be doomed to spend eternity reliving every triumph and every failure and every joy and every fear and pain FOREVER. And you will never realize it. Even it that is the case from your perspective accross these infinite versions of 'you', you will still perceive yourself as having a start and an end, so functionally it is no different than if you only lived once.

>>17356699
You've been warned, explore it at your own peril, I'm not saying anymore than that.