RE: habitable planets
April 27, 2018 at 11:38 am
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2018 at 11:42 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 27, 2018 at 11:23 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(April 27, 2018 at 11:20 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: We CAN screw it up so badly that a civilization isn't possible. That would leave grunting cave people.
We can cause existing civilization to collapse. But I don’t see how we can make a later recovery impossible without also effectively making ourselves extinct.
Mind you recovery doesn’t necessarily mean restoration of a industrial technological culture like our own. We may squander so much accessible mineralogical resource that it would make the rise of another industrial technological society challenging for many tens of millions of years, until geology had time to rearrange what is accessible. Recovery could mean a pre-industrial culture like that existed before the 19th century.
Alot of the surface resources we depended on to come up the first time are no longer present. Even the grunting cave people needed those.
-I like to think that we can run this hooker for a cool 200mil. Even in the event of complete devastation...we haven't really left much animal competition to deal with.....so I suspect that we have evolutionary time remaining to us, like any other creature that found itself in our position.
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