(April 25, 2011 at 2:42 pm)Minimalist Wrote: An asteroid hit of the magnitude of Chicxulub would probably suffice to wipe us out but failing that I expect that we will suffer through a major die-off but there will be enough survivors to start all over again fucking things up.
If we retain a modest collective memory of some of the technological knowledge we gained since the farming revolution, I expect enough of us would would survive a chicxulube scale impact to continue the species afterwards. We are nasty, resourceful little buggers extremely hard to eradicate.
