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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by mikeash on Friday October 31, 2014 @03:24PM (#8540607)
Instead of living through the greatest mass extinction event in the last few million years, we'd be living in harmony with nature, dying of now-curable injuries, starving to death when times are lean, seeing our mothers and wives and daughters die in childbirth, and living in profound ignorance of the nature of the universe.

At least with the mass extinction there are prospects for fixing the problem.

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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by Turing_Machine on Friday October 31, 2014 @03:51PM (#8540750)
There have been at least five mass extinction events that wiped out over 50% of the species on the planet. Possibly as many as twenty. The Permian-Triassic event supposedly took out 90-96%(!) of all living species.
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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by JabavuAdams on Saturday November 01, 2014 @11:38AM (#8543403)
And yet, here we are. I'm totally okay with causing mass extinction as long as something human-descended comes out the other side.
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