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Earth is a graveyard of species. Looking at the geological record, more than 99% of species that ever existed here have gone extinct [1]. Overwhelming majority
by avz 6y ago
Earth is a graveyard of species. Looking at the geological record, more than 99% of species that ever existed here have gone extinct [1]. Overwhelming majority of them long before we showed up. And in any case, this planet will not support life forever [2].
Believing we have no destiny outside Earth is believing we have no destiny at all.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth
- schrijver 6y agoI mean, if 99% of species go extinct it would be fair enough to expect that our species goes extinct too at some point. You could call that destiny as well, or you could call it entropy. For sure it’s not “no destiny at all”.
- GrayTextIsTruth 6y agoEverything ends. Say we end up spreading throughout the universe. Well the universe is just another cell in a larger organism, another node on the tree. It will die too, and so will the body that the universe is inside of. But if we start "universe hopping" maybe it will take a very long time before we run out of hosts.