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While not a true enemy I feel exploration of the unknown could provide more than enough challenge for humanity to keep itself busy vs being hellbent on destroying itself.
The fact remains just by sheer numbers there will be a day the Earth can no longer support them amount of people that inhabit it. Hopefully at some point in the next generation they get their act together and get a handle on space.
A question I ask myself is: is it primative for a country to have a desire to be the first country from Earth to place a flag on an extraterrestrial body? Is it primative to finish a speech makeing a statement like God bless "whomever". vs the rest of Earth population.
I think it is possible, not probable.
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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.- Stephen Hawking
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