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Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Right now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Forever, humanity could only ever conceivably expand so far due to the expansion of the universe, so as far as we know a still insignificant portion of the universe we could colonize.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Until we make some scientific breakthrough which might solve that problem. If there is any possible of course. There is so much we still don't know.