alt Hacker NewsI love that you brought this up.
Chickens are killed ALL the time. It’s a recurring mass event. If you were a smart chicken you could see that pattern and put it into a formula.
In contrast, the end of Humanity would be a singular event. It’s even in the name…
And that is fiction / speculation in comparison. It’s not backed by any data. Human survival over 300,000 years by contrast is.
I mean it’s fine to dream things up, but let’s be fair and call it what it is.
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One thing I've wondered about is:
Suppose a civilization (but not species) ending event happens.
The industrial revolution was fueled (literally) by easy-to-extract fossil fuels. Do we have enough of those left to repeat the revolution and bootstrap exploitation of other energy sources?
On the other hand, species go extinct with increasing regularity.
298,000 of those years didn't have toilet paper. It was utterly impossible for a single person to "end humanity" even 200 years ago; now, the president can do it in minutes by launching a salvo of nukes. Comparing the present moment to the hunter/gatherer days is preposterous.
What, you weren't alive when the last mass extinction event occurred? Why didn't you communicate or at least write the last handful down or something? Aren't you smarter than a chicken?
It's funny that you think we know what happened to humans anymore than a chicken knows what happened to chickens.