(urth) Lupiverse)s)

[entonio at gmail.com]

No dia 14/03/2012, às 03:29, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at clueland.com> escreveu:

> On 3/13/2012 10:06 PM, entonio at gmail.com wrote:
>> That has nothing to do with the fact that you're comparing an Earth at
>> the beginning of its journey with an Urth at the end of its own. Heck,
>> it's as if I was saying nonagenarian artist X hadn't achieved much and
>> you countered that our own just-out-of-high-school teen artist Y hadn't
>> achieved much either. Then I point out Y is barely beginning and you
>> counter that X has had a beginning too!
> 
> Look at it as the unlikelihood of negative accomplishments:
> 
> Earth has had several 8 figure atrocities in the last 150 years, and the extinction of the human race is still do-able.

How many people haven't been troubled until their 20s and then lived a good life?

> Humanity is scattered beyond the ability of Urthlings to wipe them out, and there may not even be 8 figures of Urthlings left.

Doesn't matter. The jury is out on Urth. Not so on Earth. I honestly don't get what's so difficult to understand about that. I'm far from an optimist, but the simple fact is that Earth is still in its infancy. You can't convict people on the likelihood of their future.