Hope so. But my worry is that Earth will be easily "othered" when they're settled, as will itself "other" the colonies. Standard scifi farehttps://twitter.com/rikwes66/status/871550366189596672 …
"Only known" is right. Scifi explores interesting speculative examples (esp. the cautionary tales about elder civs self-destructing)
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Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space is a good place to start on those tangents, for instance
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well , in old days you had books by von Däniken which touched that ...:)
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Nah, VD was entertaining for a while but never scifi. Too overhyped. Reynolds is an astronomer, he knows his stuff. Heartily recommended
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yes, but we can only go by what is known , and the way it is going now humans will annihilate themselves and the planet with them
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No arguments there. From a scifi perspective, we've been approaching collapse sinks for decades. Odds on us making Kardashev 1 are dim
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mind you : Earth will simply reset and start with new species ( has happened before ) ...
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Oh, heh, almost certainly, unless we find ways to total it (scifi covers that too; starting w Dan Simmons' Hyperion & Ilium series)
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Btw, Horizon Zero Dawn (the game) is an excellent excursion in such a scenario. Check out a playthrough if you've time
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