• backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
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      Someday paleontologists will discover doomer memes from the Pleistocene, the Cretaceous, the Permian, the Devonian, and the Ordovician all predicting the same thing: “this is it, the end!”.

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        Someday, they will discover the remains of dead archaeologists among remains of dinosaurs and will have to wonder if we lived at the same time

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      I’m not so sure life on Earth could recover from global nuclear war.

      But if we can avoid that then yeah we’re probably fine.

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        Life can absolutely recover. People do joke about it but cockroaches are ridiculously resilient. And so are tardigrades.

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        Even the most pessimistic models predict half of the biosphere surviving nuclear war.

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          Well that’s good to know, in an odd-feeling sort of way - it’s reassuring info within the context of a situation which I would never want to happen in the first place.

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    We don’t need to care, Jesus is coming back anyway. – MAGAs, probably

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      My mom is like this. Anything that is bad for the world instantly becomes a problem Jesus will fix when he returns. One thing I like to counter this with is: in the bible God had all his followers do all the work to fix things, so doesn’t that just mean you’ll be spending the end of the world cleaning up this mess?

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    Earth (and life) will be around long after humans have destroyed themselves.

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      Only if you are constantly refreshing lemmy. Otherwise, no, you will find out before reading here.

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    How can i keep hearing about people close to me and around me dying of cancer young, yet these guys are still alive and going

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    Those guys (like us) are only existent for the blink of a moment. No matter how important they seem today, in death all are equal and the planet and people will still be around long after they’re gone

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        shared afterlife

        oh dear god no, please send me to the void thank you

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    Earth will wash its hands of us, and life will continue. Even if we do cause extreme damage to the planet, and much of life is wiped out somehow, there’s still plenty of time left for another advanced civilization (or two, or three) to eventually arise and possibly be much more successful than we’ve been.

    However, I do wonder if the competitive nature of life on Earth, and possibly everywhere in this universe, makes inevitable that every “intelligent” species eventually wipes itself out.

    Life is one choice after another, every minute of every day we make choices. And, every choice is locked in the second we make it, we can’t go back in time and change it. All of us can look back at past choices and think, ‘what if I’d chosen differently at that point?’, but we only get one life, and we only get one path through that life. And, life is short, we only see a tiny fraction of the whole picture. Plus, our view of the past is murky at best, even for things that happened within our lifetimes, let alone long before. Our view of the future is non-existent, for every correct prediction there are millions of incorrect ones--no one knows what’s going to happen. Live your life, do your best every second, and you’ll get through it, one way or the other–time doesn’t stop.