• Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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      7 months ago

      The only way humans’ progeny will exist for millions of years is if we manage to make it through the great filter and spread out to other planets, assuming we can find planets suitable for open-environment habitation.

      We’re quite good at making more of ourselves than is sustainable, so the only way of keeping ourselves going that long is to spread out.

      Of course by then I’m sure several new species of humans will have emerged.

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        7 months ago

        Overpopulation doesn’t usually lead to extinction. Mass die-offs sure, but not extinction.

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      7 months ago

      With our advanced weapon technology, and knowing it will only increase, I don’t know if we make it 200-300 more years. Weapons capable of wiping our civilization is probably our great filter.