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: 2) by edIII on Wednesday June 14 2017, @07:47PM
Some are simply unacceptable. These are not personality quirks, cultural differences, or racial traits. What we are talking about are sociopaths and psychopaths running the world. The most you can do is accept the world way it is, and/or accept what happens to you, but you can never be accepting of them.
They're filthy animals of the lowest order, and fully deserve to be put down as they are not fit for purpose. The purpose being the furtherance of the human race and obviously its survival. They suck at it, and are endangering all life as we know it. We can never be accepting of these people, because what you are really saying is that you would be accepting of their sociopathic ways. You're not accepting of that, if your post history is any indication at all.
Stop normalizing them as people. They're not people, but very badly mentally damaged animals that act out in purely avaricious and selfish ways. A person is a human being in not just biological terms, but possessing of empathy and at least a modicum of we-are-all-in-this-together.
Taking out the 1% is not something that you would need to repeat, precisely because we now have much better ways of creating an advanced society. You remove them, you remove the avarice, you remove the control from the top. We can create a new world dedicated to not repeating the old ways. In order to do so, you need to get them out of the way first. Sadly, that probably means putting them down.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.