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Originally Posted by Kebsis
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Originally Posted by Gullible Jones
A nuclear war will render this planet completely uninhabitable to anything other than certain bacteria. I'm talking war on a massive scale - 1000-Hiroshima fusion bombs being dropped on everything from isolated villages to bustling cities, setting off nukes at high altitudes to contaminate huge areas, etc.
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The Hiroshima bomb was not a fusion bomb, and it would take a lot more than a thousand fusion bombs to destroy hummanity. Civilization, maybe, but not humanity alltogether. |
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Kebsis meant that each bomb would be 1000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
Personally, I think life will carry on much as it has done for a long time into the future - just muddling along, humanity lurching from political crisis to war to natural disaster and back again, with a fairly normal mixture of happiness and misery. As soon as somebody can make money out of it, we will start to see space-cities, terraforming and colonisation, but only for a few: either the lucky ones (rich people leaving a polluted, crowded Earth) or the unlucky ones (transporting convicts, or perhaps the undesirable ethnic group of the day). But I don't think humanity will be wiped out for a good long while.
PS: Sorry for the gloom, but I have an exam in three hours time
