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Cartoon_Quoter posted...

We're way too curious as a species not to. It would take extinction to stop it, and we're getting pretty close to extinction-proof. Yes, there are several major crises looming. But even a 99% loss can be recovered from.

I won't guess whether it will be 100 years or 100 generations, but there will be people curious enough to try it the moment a new technology is available.

Extinction proof? We would have to be multi planet. There isnt really a candidates in our solar system.

Mars would take major terraforming. You still have to fix its core. Its way beyond us to be honest. Venus you can rule out by the same token. Its the same size as earth but its core, crust/tectonics doesnt work the same. Not to mention the atmosphere. Jupiter moons can be ruled out by radiation. Saturn just Titan it has a atmosphere but its not breathable and its cold. Same with its ice planets.. that leaves uranus nothing there. Everything else is too cold. You could mine stuff and build stations. Anything on that level is costly and hurdreds of years away. So yea we got a good chance of going extinct. Things will survive by anything less than dinosaur impact.

Now interstellar travel is impossible. You would need something lile transwarp from star trek or wormhole tech. Thats fiction.