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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
doesn't matter how nice that one basket is if it gets nailed by an extinction level asteroid, or if the Yellowstone super-volcano erupts, or if we lose our magnetic field (or any number of other plausible doomsday scenarios). we're the first species in the history of the planet with the ability to prevent our own extinction, to not try and do so is foolish
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I still think we should be looking inward instead of outward. There has never been an extinction level event on this planet that wiped out all life. Some animals were always able to adapt. The key is to figure why those animals survived and follow that direction. I could see having an escape vessel ready just in case, but putting our planet's resources into developing another planet just doesn't seem right. If it fails (and it likely would), then you just end up wasting resources that belong here and could be helping people here.
Anyhow, extinction is inescapable no matter what. You can't stop the process of evolution and eventually, we will be an exctint ancestor species for whatever our decendents evolve into.