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Earth has been hit by objects in the past, with devastating effects. Scientists largely agree that it was an asteroid or comet impact that started the chain of events that wiped out the dinosaurs around 60 million years ago.
[...] impacts from objects in space are just one of several ways that humanity and most of life on Earth could suddenly disappear.
We are already observing that extinctions are happening now at an unprecedented rate. In 2014 it was estimated that the extinction rate is now 1,000 times greater than before humans were on the Earth. The estimated number of extinctions ranges from 200 to 2,000 species per year.
From all of this very worrying data, it would not be a stretch to say that we are currently within a doomsday scenario. Of course, the “day” is longer than 24 hours but may be instead in the order of a century or two.
So what can we do about this potential prospect of impending doom?
[...] But the threats we face are so unpredictable that we need to have a backup plan. We need to plan for the time after our doomsday and think about how a post-apocalyptic Earth may recover and humanity will flourish again.
As computer experts, you are familiar with backup plans. What should we do to backup human survival ?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 14 2017, @06:20AM (2 children)
Bonobos. They settle conflicts by having sex. [google.com]
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(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Wednesday June 14 2017, @06:34AM
So do humans. It turns out that one can settle a conflict to one's advantage more effectively by making one-sided war instead of love.
(Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Wednesday June 14 2017, @01:23PM
They're trolling the biologists.
Humans write science fictional stories about "rishathra" to troll the gray aliens who troll us right back by abducting people and probing them. "Well the book we downloaded claimed you like this kind of interspecies stuff"
The bonobos having not invented much of anything, can only troll us humans by putting on a live action pr0n show for the lonely biologist observers.