The Earth has entered a new period of extinction, a study by three US universities has concluded, and humans could be among the first casualties. The report, led by the universities of Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley, said vertebrates were disappearing at a rate 114 times faster than normal. The findings echo those in a report published by Duke University last year. One of the new study's authors said: "We are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event." The last such event was 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs were wiped out, in all likelihood by a large meteor hitting Earth. "If it is allowed to continue, life would take many millions of years to recover and our species itself would likely disappear early on," said the lead author, Gerardo Ceballos. Earth 'entering new extinction phase' - US study - BBC News It makes me wonder if the human race will ever learn, we can't just get off Mother Earth when is totally destroyed and go some place else!
Hmmmmmm but if we could what language would they speak and would we need a Visa. Sorry for the humour but not sure this will really bother any of us. The thing that always amazes me is these Clever Boffins never tell us about a Plan "B" 65 million years and we are still getting it Wrong. was there ever a Plan "B" JP
Plan b, there never will be one! The greed of some will never change,we always want more. There was a similar news article by the bbc a couple of days ago stating if we all lived like the u.s we would need a lot more planets than just this one.
Can you remember way back in the late 70/80's a guy was trying to start a real estate business for lots on the moon. That's What I call the start of a a Plan "B". Plan "C" getting some transport with No Stopover Happy Saturday So far. JP
Ah So here can be Plan "B" Titan, despite its location in orbit around a gas giant in the outer Solar System, is one of the most Earth-like objects ever studied. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150618103830.htm Thoughts anyone? JP
"EXIT" Got to get in there first. When I applied for a Visa Application Form I got the LOL No change there then, so it looks like it may be out of the pan and into the fire JP
