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Originally Posted by Joshua G
i wouldnt say the entire race would die. just like 65 million years back, not every single life was extinguished. congress would be safe in DOD bunkers, ready to carry on the human race with their values.
im with you though, people need too many resources to just pack on a ship & go somewhere else. my bet is AI will carry the torch of knowledge after they kill all the humans. |
i wouldn't be surprised that there are government safe places. was at the getty museum recently and commented to my acquaintance that the rumor is there is a vast network of tunnels and rooms underneath it. she asked me if i thought if it was bomb proof/had nuclear doors. duh, of course it would!
but, i think of this in terms of fermi's paradox, if there are aliens, where are they? and there's actually math that shows the milky way should have been colonized by now. no where in the visible universe has technologically advanced life. to me, that points to it being impossibly difficult to accomplish, even over 100s and 100s of millions of years.
here's a good article on the math
Sentient Developments: New mathematical study reveals that our Galaxy should have been colonized by now
and when you think that the nearest exoplanet is, i think, 5 light years away, then we can ALMOST rule out being able to colonize another planet without needing to live in tubes.
i say almost because there's a pretty cool article i read that, according to NASA, warp drive is maybe doable.
Make it so!: NASA engineers say they successfully tested a real ‘warp drive’
anyway, so the only chance we'd have to colonize outer space would be within this solar system, and i'm with your OP, we're not cutout to live in tubes on other planets in addition to the immense difficulties and challenges that would need to be overcome.