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Yeah I take zero comfort in knowing life will go on after we go extinct. I'd do anything to ensure my child has a future and if she chooses to have kids I'd do
by breakyerself 3y ago
Yeah I take zero comfort in knowing life will go on after we go extinct. I'd do anything to ensure my child has a future and if she chooses to have kids I'd do anything to secure them a future here.
- sillysaurusx 3y agoWell, yes. But we are a blip. Ten thousand lifetimes (roughly 40,000 generations) elapse every second of that video, and it’s over an hour long. Meanwhile your great grandchild "will have more in common with the stranger they married than they could ever have with you." https://youtu.be/wCA7sGZKFIY?si=LsBpPstKnpbVRBl5 https://youtu.be/wCA7sGZKFIY?si=LsBpPstKnpbVRBl5 We like to feel so important. And we are. But rooting for Team Earth to spread out beyond our planet gives me some comfort, rather than the existential horror of cosmic time scales relative to human lives. That’d be a bit like a fruit fly pining away that it only lives a few dozen hours, which must feel like a lifetime to it.