[FPSPACE] Yeah, but can it reliably find 75 meter dead comet fragmens?

[LARRY KLAES]

I did not say the human race would go extinct.  I am emphasizing that
we will lose our civilization to the point that we return to a Medieval
level of existence, if we are lucky.

Either we preserve our civilized society and thus ourselves by spreading
it to other worlds, or we stay on Earth and watch how long we can
keep consuming resources and land before things collapse.

If civilization collapses and then a big space rock shows up and we
have no way of stopping it, then we may indeed be talking the
extinction of the human species.  But then maybe next time Earth
will get a species that finally does things right.

Larry


>From: Brian Dunbar <brian.dunbar at liftport.com>
>Reply-To: brian.dunbar at liftport.com
>To: Jim Davis <jimdavis2 at earthlink.net>
>CC: fpspace at friends-partners.org
>Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Yeah, but can it reliably find 75 meter dead  comet 
>fragmens?
>Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:36:19 -0600
>
>Jim Davis wrote:
> > LARRY KLAES wrote:
> >
> >> If we continue to stay on Earth and remove the one thing that is the
> >> equivalent of a good swift kick in the pants, we will eventually die 
>from
> >> overpopulation, a lack of resources, and general malaise and 
>stagnation.
> >>
> >> We became just intelligent enough to realize this hazard from the 
>Cosmos,
> >> now let us heed Nature's warning and head out into the Final Frontier,
> >> rather
> >> than sit on porch with a loaded rifle.
> >
> > Larry, take these arguments out back and put them out of their
> > misery. They have yet to convince one person to move off earth.
> > Including everyone on the list.
> >
> > Jim Davis
>
>I don't think that's a fair argument, Jim.  It's not as if there is a
>way for anyone to actually get to orbit, unless you spend half of your
>life working for the government.
>
>And Larry ... our track record is pretty good so far.  Civilizations
>will stagnate and fall but humans are pretty tough and hard to kill.
>
>--
>Brian Dunbar
>
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