Bottom line? We need to eventually leave this planet, period. There’s no if’s about this.
The positive is that we’ve got a couple thousand years as a minimum to get smart, explore, and find other places.
For those big into big fancy buildings or statues for the future....you might as well prepare for the day that it won’t really matter anymore.
I’m sure Obongo has a solution, if you just raise the debt ceiling...
Must be Bush’s fault.
So Earth is like 55 in human years?
The much-heralded Information Age is full of itself.
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Carbon is being converted to non-usable forms at a steady rate such that the level of atmospheric carbon is orders of magnitude lower than in the past. Life will go extinct long before the earth becomes otherwise uninhabitable because of the lack of carbon.
We can thank anthropogenic warming enthusiasts for their schemes to sequester even more carbon to keep it out of the atmosphere, thereby hastening the end of life on earth. Who knows, maybe they *want* the destruction of all life.
So, does this mean I have time to enjoy a few good steaks?
I guess I better cancel our trip next weekend to our trailer, eh?
That does it. I’m shorting Terran real estate.
It'll be here before you know it.
It’s high time I started smoking better cigars.
...and I feel fine.
There’s no point acting all surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display in your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now.