(July 25, 2013 at 12:26 pm)Severan Wrote: I've been thinking recently (oh no!) about our species, and our ultimate goal to survive. I was thinking about how in the past, primitive people just survived off the scraps they found, unaware what their survival would mean for the world. We became advanced and learned how to expand, and thrive. Now, we are faced with extinction again, not from animals, starvation, disease, but from cosmic disasters, such as asteroids, supernovae and our own destruction, nukes, war, etc. I was talking to my friends recently, and they said that humans will last about 2000 years more. 2000 puny years?!?! I think we deserve more than that! We need to be AT LEAST a two planet species. If one is destroyed, the other can come back. What do you think?
We are just biologically engineered vehicles for bacteria. Sooner or later they will design one with better environmental performance, or a sunroof.
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
