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I'm pretty sure it's well known that we're currently in one of the largest extinction events.
by ImprovedSilence 7y ago
I'm pretty sure it's well known that we're currently in one of the largest extinction events.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- mirimir 7y agoFrom another perspective, we are "one of the largest extinction events".
- koheripbal 7y agoIs it just me, or are HN comments becoming less and less informative, and more and more like Reddit zingers?
- gdubs 7y agoFrom the Hacker News guidelines [1]: “Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.” 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mirimir 7y agoI was just darkly joking about the possibility that it's not all about us. That, for all the millions of other species going down, we're not that distinguishable from the Chicxulub asteroid. Some of them might even be conscious, on long timescales.