Temporal range = range of time a species exists. According to paleontologists, "modern humans" have been around for ~250,000 years. Dinosaurs = 245m years ago - 65m years ago Alpacas = 40m years ago - ? Elephants = 2.5m years ago - ? Humans = 250,000 years ago - ??????
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this inspired me and I ended up writing about it this week, if you're curious:https://www.ontheolo.com/blog/humanitys-temporal-range …
I agree with you. We've gotten past the hard part. Decent chance that we'll see a nuke go off in our lifetimes in a city or something, but I don't think we're hardcoded for nuclear war. We want to see the species survive. I worry about global warming but we can always go north.
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What freaks me out most is some sort of weird sun volatility or death by cosmic rays. That'd just finish us overnight. Nothing we can do about that. Big believer on us needing to go multiplanetary. I mean...why the fuck not? What else are we gonna do as a species.
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Now death by cosmic rays would be the REAl black swan of 2020 :)
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