Doomsday Pt.2

This post is Part 2 of a 2-parter. There was also a Part 1.

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but we as a race could detonate every single working nuclear weapon on the planet right now, and humanity would still survive. We'll survive until either a big enough rock comes along to hit us, or the sun runs out of hydrogen and enters its hungry hungry helium phase. We're dug in too deep as a species. We're dug in worse than roaches at this point. There are plenty of us tucked away in out-of-the-way places that will not suffer direct hits, and there would be many, many breeding populations that could weather the winter of a few hundred (or thousand) years, and come out smelling worse, maybe - but basically okay. Remember that through the worst ice ages this planet ever saw - ferns survived.

Ferns.

There are places we'd survive, tucked away. Then once the global thaw sets in, it'd only take a geologic eyeblink for us to over-repopulate the globe again - even if no technology survived to help us do it.

Better pray that big rock comes along before we get good enough to take it out from beyond the orbit of Neptune. Because if nothing hits us first, that technology junk is going to get us out of here long before Big Mr. Sol start's blushing and plumping up.