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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Two words for me, never saw the word inimical before. I also doubt it’s possible for us to kill all life. We’re just making the planet incompatible with our biology. Even in the worst case I think there will still be room for extremophiles

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          More importantly, there is nothing we can do to cease all life on Earth. A lot of higher life forms, sure. But there are living microbes deep in the Earth’s crust. Not to mention tardigrades. They’ll live on no matter what we can achieve with our technology. You’d pretty much have to knock the Earth into the sun to kill them.

          So it’s not an especially accurate word for what we can do.