Comment on Newspaper in 25th march 1924 writing to historians in 2024
UPGRAYEDD@lemmy.world 8 months agoI mean… kinda? If i do the math in my head… if there is a 1 in a million chance every day for something to happen. It seems like it wont happen.
But a million days is just about 2,700 years. The human race has been around maybe 100 thousand? Its a bunch of probabilities stacked on top of each other, in a way that reminds me alot of the Fermi paradox.
And we keep inventing new ways to do it and making the current ways easier. There are also plenty of non self inflicted ways it could happen. Commet or meteor, gamma ray bust, supervolcano, etc.
It really isnt a question of if, but when. Before or after, we become interplanetary or better intersolar-system species. My hope at this point is just not in my lifetime would be nice.
OpenStars@kbin.social 8 months ago
Right, the ratchet effect, where once we extinct ourselves we don't so much come back from that:-).
Unless we exist in multiple realities, whether physical like if humanity was seeded amongst the stars, or like metaverse style, or maybe we are only a simulation to begin with, then it's only our branch that would end, and even that ignores plot constraints.
Then again, it doesn't really matter, if we have no control over it anyway. What matters, it seems like to me anyway, is if we knew better and just flat did not care: if we are only responsible for our own parts, then conversely we are responsible for that much at least.