RE: New study on mass extinction of species
June 20, 2015 at 3:27 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2015 at 3:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Dinosaurs stretched their -dominance- out for 135 million years. We, as a single species, are -slightly- more capable than they ever were (even adding all of their success together), and we're what, 2 million years and change in, at the most generous of estimates.?
The sun only has so much gas left in it's tank......but best estimates give us about 1billion years or so before it begins to make earth inhospitable to all forms of life known....the very upper limit of what (all of)our biology can handle -even by adaptation, by 2.8.......just a rock. Right? We have something that they don't...something that helps us when biology and adaptation fail us. Technology....and a hell of a headstart should there ever arise another tech using species like ourselves.
We only have to win what, 10 for the dinosaurs 1, starting with the advantageous position we are in now, to put us on the -ultimate- earthly podium.."last men standing before lights out"..and then we only have to drag our asses across the line for another 1.8 or so....to call it GG? We might actually manage that.
The sun only has so much gas left in it's tank......but best estimates give us about 1billion years or so before it begins to make earth inhospitable to all forms of life known....the very upper limit of what (all of)our biology can handle -even by adaptation, by 2.8.......just a rock. Right? We have something that they don't...something that helps us when biology and adaptation fail us. Technology....and a hell of a headstart should there ever arise another tech using species like ourselves.
We only have to win what, 10 for the dinosaurs 1, starting with the advantageous position we are in now, to put us on the -ultimate- earthly podium.."last men standing before lights out"..and then we only have to drag our asses across the line for another 1.8 or so....to call it GG? We might actually manage that.
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