Valnao@sh.itjust.works to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoMichel Mayor, Nobel laureate in Physics: ‘People think humanity is eternal, but we are animals and we will become extinct’english.elpais.comexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down14
arrow-up193arrow-down1external-linkMichel Mayor, Nobel laureate in Physics: ‘People think humanity is eternal, but we are animals and we will become extinct’english.elpais.comValnao@sh.itjust.works to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square6linkfedilink
minus-squarefinallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·1 month agoHe’s not wrong. I’d be surprised if we had any more than 2,000 years left, the way things are going. And most of that is time taken for the small groups scattered across the planet after the bigger catastrophies to die off.
minus-squareHanrahan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month ago to be fair Tim is talking about civilization, not Homo sapiens
He’s not wrong. I’d be surprised if we had any more than 2,000 years left, the way things are going. And most of that is time taken for the small groups scattered across the planet after the bigger catastrophies to die off.
to be fair Tim is talking about civilization, not Homo sapiens