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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by _greim_ on Thursday March 20, 2014 @03:53PM (#7438151)
Not actually. An impact is inevitable, given enough time.
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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by nerfhammer on Thursday March 20, 2014 @04:00PM (#7438227)
given the time scale of the duration in which a major impact event is likely humanity's technology will have advanced radically beyond which we could possibly imagine
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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by baddox on Thursday March 20, 2014 @04:10PM (#7438316)
Yes, and the way that will happen is that money will be invested into space technology companies like SpaceX.
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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by nerfhammer on Thursday March 20, 2014 @05:09PM (#7438821)
or it will just happen anyway over the course of thousands of years
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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by dragonwriter on Thursday March 20, 2014 @05:50PM (#7439076)
No, actually, if everyone chooses "invest in other things" over "invest in technology", then it won't happen. If it will happen, it will be because of technology investment, not as magic that occurs independently of them.
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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by nerfhammer on Thursday March 20, 2014 @06:21PM (#7439275)
It's impossible to imagine how humanity would stop investing in technology or would only invest in technology that would not be related to space travel
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