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MrPotatoeHead wrote

Until an asteroid strike extinction event kills everyone.

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Shittles wrote

How long do you think humanity can be preserved?

From what I've heard they aren't worth the trouble but I'd think it would depend on your method... I don't think canning would be much good more than two or three years out... can't we just raise rabbits instead?

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elyersio OP wrote

What about freezing?

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Shittles wrote

We're not worth it; low nutritional content, poor taste, this whole thread is silly anyway. If the aliens show up they'll meet us, figure out that we're a pack of poo-flinging chimps that take stuff apart, steal shiny stuff, fuck and fight like rats, have a nasty septic bite and make the crappiest slaves ever, and they'll take the puppies and the kittens and parrots and maybe a few cetaceans and a few UFO-loads of Slow Loris, maybe a few copies of Zap Comix, Shakespeare, Bottle Rockets and Muddy Waters and they'll be the fuck out of here. We're not worth saving and in our heart of hearts we all fucking know it.

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elyersio OP wrote

Why can't we just save ourselves for its own sake?

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Shittles wrote

Why can't we just save ourselves for its own sake?

Because we are too busy being what we are. A great question was formed in the collective mind of the 50's, posed in the 60's, argued for the last 40 years and the answer seems to be getting louder in the 21st century; No. We will not get our shit together in time to save ourselves. And forget this "Tough Humans" crap... let's see us be tough enough to cope with no pollinators, dying oceans, runaway greenhouse, coastal flooding, and a 1% that will probably wind up on Antarctica in a walled city-state drinking smoking and snorting whats left of the Good Stuff while the rest of us die choking. The mythical Average American would drive their SUV down a street paved with live babies if it would get them one last tank of gas, one last month of cable, one last Dominos gorge, one last week of rent and a bag of anything that takes the pain away, one last dose of Fukitol.

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elyersio OP wrote (edited )

We will not get our shit together in time to save ourselves.

Not with that attitude.

I say we start a socialist space program. And then we take over the moon.

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Shittles wrote

Not with that attitude.

But that's the attitude out there. Tapping your footie won't change that. And a dead-head run to the moon is pointless; there's nothing there, remember? Hawking is right; we have an unknown finite time during which we can save our species by leaving the nest for an interstellar destination, and if we don't pull it off we'll either fade away or push the button and burn. Sad! As a certain orange tinted anus in a shirt would say.

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Defasher wrote

100 years.

Climate change has increased at such a rapid rate in the last few years, that people all over the world can now clearly see that their region won't be able to support human life in the near future. It's no longer speculation.

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zorblax wrote

Anything that tells you humans will go extinct in x amount of time for x reason is not very trustworthy, imo. Short of a large asteroid strike, I don't think anything would kill humanity or its various institutions. We're fucking tough, and adaptable.

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elyersio OP wrote

Thanks. Finally someone who believes in humanity.

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