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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by WA on Thursday July 22, 2021 @02:50AM (#27916190)
Still, it makes sense to take the chances for another 500 years, work on making our lives on planet Earth more habitable and sustainable and then invest in space faring tech.

The chances of being wiped out by a super volcano or asteroid impact over the next 500 years until we solved the sustainable energy problem and a stable ecosystem are rather small.

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by m4rtink on Thursday July 22, 2021 @06:32AM (#27917336)
This is very dangerous thinking - we have the technological window of opportunity now and we need to use it NOW to get space infrastructure working.

We might not have the option in 500 years, even if nothing big wipes us out till then, there could be less serious catastrophes destroying our ability to do spaceflight damning our descendants to inescapable destruction.

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