• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Hopefully they will have de-orbited by then and we would have found a better solution. But then we may not have too many generations left anyway.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

      I’m surprised if most of humanity makes it through the coming 20 years.

      I think we have seen our best decades already.

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            1 year ago

            The good news is that it gives us a useful heuristic to ignore the uninformed and unsupported moaning of “we’re dooooomed” without needing to spend any additional effort. Leaves more time for dealing with meaningful discussion.

        • key@lemmy.keychat.org
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          1 year ago

          Further back than that. Centuries if not millenia. It just was a different flavor of apocalypse back then.

          • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
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            1 year ago

            Yeah I once read a book describing the soon coming end of the world from every century going beck to PraiseGod Barebones the English politician who prophesised the coming end of the world in 1675, they all said the same thing ‘mankinds huberis and sudden turn to immorality has doomed us all’