Saturday, August 13, 2011

Suppose we knew the Earth was doomed because a giant comet would soon engulf it. Could we escape into space?

No, at present no one on Earth would escape into space. It might have been (if history had taken a different path) someday possible that a few people might have made such an escape, but unless you were a politically well-connected person, or closely related to one, you would have no chance to be chosen, whatever your learned skills and heritable virtues might be.

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