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Re:The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mo... by halter73 on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @10:12PM (#20047747)
The thing about the last five mass extinctions is they didn't involve a species so good at adapting the environment to serve its own needs that said species could colonize Mars.

Of those 5 mass extinctions, did any of them make Earth less habitable than Mars is today? I'm genuinely curious.

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Re:The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mo... by hnzix on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @10:39PM (#20047876)
The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event is theorized to be a massive asteroid strike which "release[d] the equivalent energy of several million nuclear weapons detonating simultaneously" and killed off 75% of extant species.

Sure, the preppers will be gleefully LARPing Fallout from their bunkers, and a small percentage of humans would probably pull through. Maybe.

If we have a seed colony on Mars, it significantly de-risks human extinction from an asteroid strike. Elon is the ultimate prepper.

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