Quote from: AnonyMint on March 09, 2014, 02:49:36 AM

Quote from: Spendulus on March 08, 2014, 10:38:08 PM

all d'juice done oozed outta her...

Obama should be proud of me that I integrated black slanglish into my vernacular. Political correctness is morphing from a harmony strategy to survival as it always does at times where Godwin's law applies.

We probably have (or could develop) the technology to deal with an Ice Age so I think the greater threat is collective man.

Preventing asteroid strikes require a collective effort because there is no individual profit motive, thus I doubt we can deal with them effectively. Fortunately they are long-tail events. We probably can mitigate this threat by populating other planets and space. Paradigm shifting the problem space is one of my favorite creative strategies for solving problems.

Both are certain events, given time.

Global warming is a maybe.

No doubt, though that the mix of instinctual patterns in man, which includes both collectivism and individuality, conspiratorial looniness and manic prancing, is one oriented toward species survival, the question being whether it is adequate for these longer range risks.

We probably can mitigate this threat by populating other planets and space. Paradigm shifting the problem space is one of my favorite creative strategies for solving problems.

So far, the evidence is we do not know how, but over some hundred or two of years, that could be.