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Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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Tue, 23 Oct 2001 00:24:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
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> > > > We'd have to come up with some sort of practical interstellar travel • technique
> > > > first - the solar system's gonna get unlivable way before the death of the
> > > > universe. But (IMO) we're gonna be history way before that.
> > >
> > > How do you figure?
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> > > In part it depends on your definition of "we". Humanity has "stopped
> > > evolution" recently,
> >
> > When? No-one told me...
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> Too early to tell for sure but we as a species have in part stopped evolving
> because we have shut down most of the selection factors (disease, famine,
> the birth defect effect on reproduction)
"in part stopped evolving". I don't get the meaning of that. Humanity is either
evolving or not - and I disagree that we've made any significant differences in
these areas. Oh, maybe a little in the western world...
> As for the survival of the race, we have to get over the next 100 and out
> into the rest of the system (99+++% of the resource, energy and cubic exists
> off earth). If we do that we're a lock. It matters not that there are not
> hospitable environments out there. We make our own. It matters not that we
> may not have FTL. We'll build arcs in hollowed out asteroids and send
> generationships.
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> You're way too pessimistic.
Nah, just more so than you.
> Me, I'm an optimist, I have faith in our basic goodness and our amazing
> cleverness. But then I'm American.
I dare say there are optimists in Afghanistan, too.
ROSCO
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| (...) Lets not bring athrax etc into this :) (...) This is an interesting point. It is a generaisation, but in the UK low income families tend to have more kids than higher earners. Many couples (married or otherwsie) decide to have only one or no (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Too early to tell for sure but we as a species have in part stopped evolving because we have shut down most of the selection factors (disease, famine, the birth defect effect on reproduction) As for the survival of the race, we have to get (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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