Igain: I'm really more and more thinking that we are prisoners of entropy. The generation of waste entropy and the consumption of irreplaceable, low entropy assets on earth will be our undoing eventually. And then returning to your question, what does it matter on the time scale? If it's short, if we go out in a blaze of glory. Why prolong things? Why keep keep matters moving? Ah, i guess i would say that as long as we're functioning, there's always the poss ability of solving new problems,. Moving to another planet, whatever. But if if we commit suicide here on this planet is over. And that that saddens me.
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