The reason why the ISS views work to elevate us is that they provide a wider view of the familiar, and it's always beautiful from orbit.
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Replying to @asteris
don't know, think it's more than that (it remains your origin )
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Replying to @rikwes66
Ah, then you probably need to read the book I'm talking about ;)
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Replying to @asteris
Human species is only known life form spending inordinate amount of time and resources designing new ways to exterminate itself ...
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Replying to @rikwes66
"Only known" is right. Scifi explores interesting speculative examples (esp. the cautionary tales about elder civs self-destructing)
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Replying to @asteris
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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Replying to @rikwes66
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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Replying to @asteris
mind you : Earth will simply reset and start with new species ( has happened before ) ...
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Replying to @rikwes66
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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Replying to @asteris
if you see wildlife at Chernobyl it should be sobering to humans ( that's actually a "deadzone" but animals adapted )
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To some extent https://www.wired.com/2011/04/ff_chernobyl/ … ideally, I'd prefer both humanity & the planet to survive :)
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