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Re:Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars by pc86 on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @02:09PM (#17611404)
Aside from us killing ourselves in myriad spectacular ways, the most looming threats are cosmic. The sun is on a timeline and asteroids hit planets with some measure of regularity. Any cosmic extinction-level event will render the bottom of the ocean just as inhospitable as the south of France or the Midwest US.

An ELE on Earth in the short term future wipes out the human race, full stop. The only thing that can continue our species is having that species on more than one rock in space.

Re:Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars by darpa_escapee on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @02:32PM (#17611620)
Yet, given the last asteroid induced extinction event, the south of France, the midwest US, and the bottom of the ocean would still have been more habitable than Mars.
Re:Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars by pixelbash on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:06PM (#17611913)
Not for the ones that experienced it first hand.
Re:Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars by darpa_escapee on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:33PM (#17613061)
Our ancestors got through it, somehow.
Re:Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars by pc86 on Thursday July 26, 2018 @09:51AM (#17617469)
Human would not have. The point is not to ensure that any life on Earth survives, the point is to ensure that human life survives. An ELE of similar size today wipes out the human race. There is no coming back from it and without a generation or more of warning there is no surviving it.

At least having colonies on other planets and moons would give us more of a chance.