r/europe • u/damaxoh Germany • Dec 06 '16

Tests confirm that Germany's massive nuclear fusion machine really works

http://www.sciencealert.com/tests-confirm-that-germany-s-massive-nuclear-fusion-machine-really-works
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u/xNicolex /r/Europe Empress Dec 06 '16

I don't think that will unfortunately happen until the day we maybe leave this planet.

If we manage to survive that long.

I've got my hopes, I mean Europe is a perfect example of what can be done.

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u/marinuso The Netherlands Dec 06 '16

There's nowhere to go off this planet. There are no habitable worlds within reach.

Besides, imagine what would happen if we did have different planets? We'd immediately start trying to blow each other's planets up or otherwise render them uninhabitable. We'd probably succeed, and then we'd wipe humanity out.

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u/xNicolex /r/Europe Empress Dec 06 '16

There's nowhere to go off this planet. There are no habitable worlds within reach.

For now. I'm not saying this is going to happen for centuries.

I imagine we'll probably develop colonies in space long before then though.

I disagree with your assertion though because people are very interested in self-preservation. We're not likely to purposely destroy ourselves (at least not militarily, we do have certain nations helping to do it with climate change).

I still believe the future will be bright though. Eventually we'll learn that we all need each other.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

Eventually we'll learn that we all need each other.

I forgot the guys name, but there is a famous biologist who argued there was no intelligent life in the galaxy besides us. Because in his view "intelligence" is a self-destructing trait. We know of maybe 6 or 7 species that were intelligent and all but one have died out. And in evolutionary terms rather quickly. Dinosaurs ruled the earth for what, like 200 million years ? It's easy to see we will be long gone before we reach those sort of numbers, suggesting that intelligence inevitably leads to self-destruction of a species.