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Re: Destiny of humanity and complex life on the Earth
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Originally Posted by questor
''1. We stay here and ride out the Earth and become extinct along with everything else when a natural disaster of some sort wipes out life on the Earth.''
Much more likely:
We overpopulate the earth until the availablity of food, water and natural resources are exhausted. Then Humanity ceases to exist.
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I don't think that is much more likely questor. Overpopulation may cause massive die-offs, but the remaining population would have unshared resources and would rebuild from there. This can be modeled via system dynamics.
I think that a natural disaster (or ourselves) will wipe us out long before we colonize space, unfortunately. 
I hope I'm wrong though!
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