Hawking: We must colonize Space...or Die.

[OzzyKP]

Also Battlefield Earth.

Probably not as good a book, but a fun story of scattered pockets of humanity rising up again.

[Jon Miller]

Ugh, Battlefield Earth was terrible. I managed to make it through (was definitely tired of it by the end), I checked to see if any of the rest of L Ron Hs stuff was any different and it was all the same..

JM
(it would have been a fun short story, I think)

[Victor Galis]

Well, think about it this way. If 80% of the population of the earth was killed, the rest would probably descend into chaos and our tech would probably sink back towards dark ages levels or worse.

[Dauphin]

VG, but we could be saved by The Postman!

[Jon Miller]

I read Riddley Walker recently, it was pretty interesting (and was about what happens after the collapse of civilization after the use of an Atomic Bomb).

I keep meaning to read A Canticle for L.. which is also about the world after civ. collapse.

JM

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
Uh, they won't be mutants if that's what you're asking...

Who said anything about mutants?

But if a large scale disaster wipes out most of humankind, and the survivors are forced to adapt in order to live, then I'm willing to bet evolution might become a bit more efficient, which may create people that can't breed with what we call humans today.

[Jon Miller]

It takes a lot of evolution to get to that point Lorizael.

JM

[Richelieu]

I choose death. I just can't fit space colonization in my schedule right now.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by loinburger
If humanity gets wiped out, then there won't be anybody left to complain that humanity just got wiped out. So what's the problem?

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
It takes a lot of evolution to get to that point Lorizael.

JM

Certainly it does, but that doesn't discount the possibility.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by loinburger
If humanity gets wiped out, then there won't be anybody left to complain that humanity just got wiped out. So what's the problem?

Loins, stop peeing in the gene pool!

[Jon Miller]

What makes you think that man 1 million years from now would be able to be bred with men today, even not including the possibility of a world wide disaster?

Jon Miller

[Lorizael]

Uh... nothing makes me think that. I consider it a strong possibility that humans today won't be able to breed with humans a million years from now. What's your point?

[Odin]

Astronomer Sir Martin Rees said that we have a 50% of distroying ourselves before we reah Type I civilization status.

[Zkribbler]

Cripies, we're not even to Type I yet

So, what are we? Type 0?