Pff. I hope they keep running over the cliff. Big Picture: When we're gone things will go one as they always have, until the sun burps a layer and burns it all off.
Pff. I hope they keep running over the cliff. Big Picture: When we're gone things will go one as they always have, until the sun burps a layer and burns it all off.
One of the "Great Filters" of the Fermi Paradox (yes, I know, not really a paradox) is the instability of so many stars, compared to our rather placid one, and the sensitivity of intelligent species to the effects of super volcanoes, vast solar flares, extreme variations in stellar outputs and the impacts of meteors, asteroids, comets, etc.
Matter of fact, if you look at the wide range of natural phenomena that would terminate our "advanced" civilization, we are way past "living on borrowed time".
And since we're going anyway, before it happens I would dearly love to see the more virtuous among us setting a good example by "allowing themselves to go extinct". I promise to graciously laud their high moral precedent. There could be tears.
Pff. I hope they keep running over the cliff. Big Picture: When we're gone things will go one as they always have, until the sun burps a layer and burns it all off.
One of the "Great Filters" of the Fermi Paradox (yes, I know, not really a paradox) is the instability of so many stars, compared to our rather placid one, and the sensitivity of intelligent species to the effects of super volcanoes, vast solar flares, extreme variations in stellar outputs and the impacts of meteors, asteroids, comets, etc.
Matter of fact, if you look at the wide range of natural phenomena that would terminate our "advanced" civilization, we are way past "living on borrowed time".
And since we're going anyway, before it happens I would dearly love to see the more virtuous among us setting a good example by "allowing themselves to go extinct". I promise to graciously laud their high moral precedent. There could be tears.