(July 22, 2015 at 2:23 am)robvalue Wrote: I'm viewing things from the point of view of the wellbeing of all life on Earth and its future.
Well, if you are concerned about the future of the wellbeing of all life on Earth then you wouldn't want to rewind humanity. In a billion years the sun will be so hot no life will be able to exist on the surface of the Earth. The only chance that life on Earth will escape it's inevitable destruction is if us Humans can get our shit together and get the hell off this rock.
If we can manage that we'll be taking a lot of Earth life with us. All kinds of plants and animals or at least most of their genetic codes to revive the various species later on.
The chances of another intelligent species evolving and having the ability to create space travel on this rock in the next billion years is pretty slim.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.