Sheril KirshenbaumNov 25, 2023

About 250M years ago, 90% of species on Earth died during the Permian extinction. All of that loss created a lot of vacant niches to fill. And not long after, the first mammals, our ancestors, appeared.

Life on this pale blue dot will continue to be resilient - whether or not we’re part of it. #Thanksgiving #science #history

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@Sheril We will begin to change to living in small, high-tech (small science, though; no particle accelerators or reactors here) agrarian communities pre-apocalyptically (potentially avoiding disaster) or we will do so haphazardly post-apocalyptically. We will almost certainly not do the former - achieving that would require cultural engineering. How many "cultural engineers" do you know? The ones that brought you these world-destroying cultures?
Nov 25, 2023 at 9:19amWeb