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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by 867-5309 on Saturday January 14, 2023 @06:17PM (#34385090)
sorry, but in a millennium or two we will possess the technology to travel at an appreciable percentage of the speed of light

in the next million years (let alone hundreds) humans will have populated most of the galaxy

that is, if we survive climate change

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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by Andrew_nenakhov on Saturday January 14, 2023 @06:25PM (#34385143)
There is an absolute certainty that climate change will not make human race extinct. If we die out, it'll be because of some other disaster.
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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by Tagbert on Saturday January 14, 2023 @09:58PM (#34386362)
The largest risk to humans of climate change is the stress it will put on civilizations and the potential for war from that. If that stress triggered an all out nuclear war, it could make humans extinct.
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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by gumby on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:07AM (#34386894)
It seems likely we will remove most or more likely all the vertebrates. There won't be significant long term damage beyond that (e.g. the coral will suffer but will grow back probably in less than a My) and the planet will do just fine.
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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by Andrew_nenakhov on Sunday January 15, 2023 @04:41AM (#34388133)
> or more likely all the vertebrates

Don't worry, it won't be all. Cats will be doing just fine.

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