Originally posted by M31@Oct 13 2002, 05:07 PM
My observations are anecdotal and I do hope that I am way off the mark.
I'm afraid you are not.
The human being appearently is incapable of solving any of all the major problems we are facing. I should say a million years is a *very* optimistic prediction.
And why not be optimistic? It's the only psycological defense we have - denying. We can see our political and/or economical leaders in practise look another way every time the big problems are discussed. We are still shooting and bombing each other, some people get disturbed by the fact that a human moves from one part of the word to another.
I give Earth and civilized life a miximum of 200 or 300 years.
Sorry.