- Obi Wan Stevobi
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Posted by: Y SO REACH BETA
Posted by: Obi Wan Stevobi
Posted by: Y SO REACH BETA
WRONG AGAIN, PAUL!
why? Because we have the capability to live beyond a single planet.
We still have to make it a few hundred more years before thats a reality. Chances are we won't set first foot on another planet for at least another quarter century. How long until actual colonization is feasible? Might be a long ways off.
Eventually, we'll be able to stop the death of stars. We will live FAR longer than any other species IF we don't destroy ourselves. The greatest threat to humanity's survival is currently ourselves.
I agree, we are likely our own greatest threat. Disease could still kill us back to the stone age. We'll still have to worry about extinction sized asteroids for a few centuries. But, even if we survive all that, it still won't be us watching the sun die out. -blam!- Sapiens will be replaced. Might be so gradual we don't notice it. And so on and so on until our own flesh and blood descendants are nothing like us. But, no matter how things work out, it won't be our species watching the sun die.
We could colonize the moon within the decade. We could have done it decades ago. NASA would have if they were given the green light, but it wasn't approved because of funding. And have to worry about extinction sized asteroids? No. We can stop them already, it's incredibly simple. And obviously we'll evolve, but evolution has slowed dramatically since we are now all mixed. As for disease. VERY unlikely. We have a population exceeding 7 billion. Even if we utterly fail to vaccinate and quarantine or treat the disease, we'll have a lot of survivors.
We could possibly colonize the moon, we won't anytime soon. Also, to ensure no extinction, that colony would have to be completely self-sustainable. That's a long way off as well. The possibility of preventing an asteroid strike exists today. We have some technology that could help. However, we are not aware of every planet killer in the solar system, let alone all the smaller ones that could decimate us. There are no guarantees there. Same with disease, we're pretty good at dealing with them, but there is always a chance we could get a new disease that kills and spreads too rapidly for response.
Remote possibilities, but they are they type of event that allowed mammals to take over to begin with.