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Humans are like mammalian cockroaches. Some will make it.
by calciphus 3y ago
Humans are like mammalian cockroaches. Some will make it.
- gabereiser 3y agoWe lack the radiation-proof shell to withstand ourselves.
- 1970-01-01 3y ago2 meters of dirt is all you really need
- virgildotcodes 3y agoHow many self-sufficient human civilizations have been sustained under 2 meters of dirt?
- 1970-01-01 3y agoThere are several civilizations that accomplished this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaymakli_Underground_City#See_also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaymakli_Underground_City#See_...
- virgildotcodes 3y agoIt doesn’t seem like those cities have any way to produce food underground without inputs from outside, so no, these would not be examples of self-sufficient underground civilizations. Really cool though, like something out of Dwarf Fortress. I’d never heard of these so thanks for sharing.
- onlyrealcuzzo 3y agoYeah, but the neat thing is, we can build them [=
- marcosdumay 3y agoWe lack a lot of the things that we use daily.
- Pxtl 3y agoWell yeah, but if we're talking about a post-collapse society where environmental destruction and starvation-driven civil chaos has wreaked havoc on our infrastructure and all resources that can be easily accessed have been mined out, how many things are they going to be putting into orbit?
- RetroTechie 3y agoYou're on a road, on foot or small vehicle, and you see a truck coming on collision course. What to do? You get out of the way. Obviously we can't deflect Earth from its orbit. This project showed we're able to deflect 'small' asteroids. In time, we may be able to deflect bigger ones. @ Some point, there will be an incoming asteroid that's too big to make it avoid collision. When (not if!) that happens, only option might be to escape into space, watch Earth being hit, and maybe return there some day. Chances are this will happen so far in the future, that humans don't exist any more, or have moved to other planets or even star systems, with Earth being just one of many homes. So... who cares. As long as we can avoid species-killing event long enough for significant numbers of us to get off this rock, our species could survive. That is, if we don't nuke ourselves first.