I'm fine with it. Let the ants take over, they seem to have their shit together.
we'd make great pets...
Humans Could Go the Way of the Dinosaur
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#12> The rate of an asteroid larger than 3 miles across striking the Earth is approximately once every 6 million years.
We've got time for this to bubble up on the priority list.
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#13> There is no technology, survey, or program in operation today to monitor all the potential threats to Earth.
Because it's much easier to prepare to go live on Mars, apparently. /s
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#14And probably we also deserve it a lot more than them.
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#15anyone that thinks humans will be around in even a million years time is, imho, delusional. we were not there up until now in that timespan, and won't be after it.
and don't get started on living on mars, or elsewhere - not going to happen.
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#16I think it’s likely that humans will go extinct, but probably at our own hands.
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#17> We could see the collapse of not just one, but all human civilization, and possibly the extinction of our species—or even all the species on the planet. In short, it would be really, really bad. We should probably note here that there's been exactly one sterilizing event in the entire history of life, and that was the formation of the moon. So even if we go, something else will survive. Even the end-Permian left su…
while i agree that the moon formation would almost certainly have sterilised the earth, i don't know of any evidence that there was anything to sterilise.
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#18anyone that thinks humans will be around in even a million years time is, imho, delusional. we were not there up until now in that timespan, and won't be after it. and don't get started on living on mars, or elsewhere - not going to happen.
You could've said the same thing about crocodiles 54 million years ago, but, hey, 54 million years later we've still got crocs.
It's a specious argument. Just because our species lifespan has been short until now doesn't mean anything about how long it will last from here out.
There are other, legitimate reasons to think maybe humans won't last very long, but, this certainly isn't one.
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#19anyone that thinks humans will be around in even a million years time is, imho, delusional. we were not there up until now in that timespan, and won't be after it. and don't get started on living on mars, or elsewhere - not going to happen.
Why do you think that it's so certain? There are moments in history were the number of humans in existence numbered in the thousands. What kind of event are you imagining of that is certain to occur that will kill every single last human?
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#20I wonder what's the longest period in human history in which someone was not predicting the imminent demise of humanity... it's like a very small period.
This is Kaliyuga, buddy, the Iron Age. Anybody over sixteen without an ulcer's a goddam spy.