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Europe is currently discussing an expansion of its nuclear capabilities - by 2050 things might look quite different from today. MAD is not impossible to happen
by RandomLensman 2y ago
Europe is currently discussing an expansion of its nuclear capabilities - by 2050 things might look quite different from today. MAD is not impossible to happen (and nuclear is only one possible avenue there).
Anyway, given that Europe is in some scenarios heating up a lot while in others (like here) it freezes - not sure any deserve much effort on speculation. Too much uncertainty.
- ben_w 2y agoAgreed, 2050 is too far into the future to predict much of anything beyond mere physics. I could believe anything from half of us being dead from an accidentally mis-engineered industrial GM algae, to von Neumann probes having been let loose on the moon for mass production of aluminium sheets to be placed in Earth-Sun L1 as a solar shade, to the escalation of current conflicts into WW3, to a random terrorist getting one nuke and missile and using that to trigger a continental-scale EMP that shuts down industrial civilisation in a densely populated area. (Only things I won't believe involve large-scale cooperation, so we're not all going to speak Esperanto by then :P)