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> always going to be something threatening us even if it's mainly ourselves It's always "ourselves". We as a race are our primary enemy and your desire not to
by zasdffaa 4y ago
> always going to be something threatening us even if it's mainly ourselves
It's always "ourselves". We as a race are our primary enemy and your desire not to see the problems we create for ourselves here and now makes you exactly the reason we will suffer. I used to fear human extinction, now I'm resigned to it.
> It's much easier to be an "escapist" by dabbling in distractions on earth than it is by building rockets or working on the science to make life possible on Mars!
Yep, I'm resigned to it.
- ncmncm 4y agoSorry, we won't get extinction. At least 0.1% will come through whatever happens, and, like the Amazonians after the pandemics, forget all we had and did.
- deepdriver 4y agoIf we face an anoxic ocean event, this simply isn't true. Such an event could leads to the upwelling and release of huge quantities of hydrogen sulfide. Diffused throughout the Earth's atmosphere this would kill nearly all life, and remain present in lethal concentrations for hundreds of thousands to millions of years judging by the fossil record from the Permian-Triassic extinction. That's a long time to rely on artificial life support systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event#Atmospheric_effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event#Atmospheric_effec...
- ncmncm 4y agoProbably some thousands could still survive, then. It would be hard to know why, but people have ways of finding reasons.