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I don’t think they would. They’d fire it at New York or somewhere and would kill a few million people. The Yanks would then return the favour and turn that part of the Middle East to a pile of radioactive dust. I don’t think that situation would wipe out Humans at all.

Either scenario is possible. But if your second one is 'probable', then why has nobody else in the Universe done it already? If they had, surely we'd see evidence? I really can't believe we are the first to get to this stage, we've only been here for the last few thousand years of a 4.5 billion...

You think Humans will be around forever?

That's kind of my point though- that we advancing so fast technologically that we will probably somehow wipe ourselves out with it. If a group of Chimps suddenly developed AK47's I doubt their species would last all that much longer.

I guess he'd do alright out of it.

Yeah same. You can't regret having kids, but I think I would if the breakdown of humanity happened to coincide with mine being alive. The vast majority of people alive today are probably the most poorly equipped to deal with societal breakdown that have ever lived.

I find it truly astonishing how such a high proportion of the human race completely dismiss the idea of some kind of apocalypse or extinction. We’ve been on this planet for a tiny, tiny spec of time, and have another 165 million years to go to challenge the dinosaurs. 99% of species that have...

Don't think it is out of the question at all, in fact, I think it's absolutely inevitable. The basic concept of infinite growth on a finite planet clearly doesn't work. The 17 years part is the bit I hope it's wrong about. I think humans missed the boat on preserving the species long-term by...