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Inspirational Or Depressing?
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If humans last as long as the average mammalian species, and no mass extinctions or catastrophes occur, then 99.5% of humans who will ever exist are yet to be born.
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Not depressing at all Zacs. Rather inspirationa l considering what Humanity has achieved so far. (Yes I know: but my glass is neither half full nor half empty....... ... it's re- fillable.) The most frustrating thing is not being able to "look in" in a couple of hundred years time to see how it's going. If only to see if Fusion has finally been cracked..... and to...
12:30 Sun 05th Feb 2023
that's quite a big "if". I'm not expecting an imminent nuclear war, in spite of everything, but one thing has happened that hasn't happened before: one species has developed the ability to wipe out most life on the planet. That would be qualitatively different from previous mass extinctions and catastrophes. Even Mt Toba left maybe 5000 humans alive; we may not be so llucky next time.
You leave my chestnuts out of this, Doooogie.
It was just a late night musing inspired by reading the body of my OP on Twitter. We are both a miracle and a disaster on this small lump of rock we call home which I thought worth discussing (well, more so than some subjects being currently discussed anyway).
It was just a late night musing inspired by reading the body of my OP on Twitter. We are both a miracle and a disaster on this small lump of rock we call home which I thought worth discussing (well, more so than some subjects being currently discussed anyway).
Not depressing at all Zacs. Rather inspirational considering what Humanity has achieved so far. (Yes I know: but my glass is neither half full nor half empty.......... it's re-fillable.)
The most frustrating thing is not being able to "look in" in a couple of hundred years time to see how it's going.
If only to see if Fusion has finally been cracked..... and to check out Keith Richards latest album. ;o)
The most frustrating thing is not being able to "look in" in a couple of hundred years time to see how it's going.
If only to see if Fusion has finally been cracked..... and to check out Keith Richards latest album. ;o)
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