(February 3, 2011 at 4:41 am)Chuck Wrote: Btw, I think you overestimate our self destructive potentials. Even all out nuclear war or the worst imaginable environmental catastrophe will not exterminate homo sapiens, but would instead leave enough survivors to mount another try. Even if we are literally reduced to the stone age without even recollection of our previous mastery of natural sciences and technology, it seems likely that it would take but 10,000 years or so for us to be building nuclear weapons again.
Some have the view that this has already happened......
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
