[AccessD] AccessD Digest, Vol 110, Issue 12

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> William Benson:
>
> >>> All species go extinct
>
> Checked in with the cockroach lately?
>
..
> And don't try to tell me that they won't escape this solar system when the
> sun is ready to go nova, nor the galaxy when it sinks into the black hole
> at
> its center... you and I both know they could teleport wherever they wanted
> to, when the time comes.
>

Cockroaches are not eternal. They've been around for roughly 300 million
years, a long time, but still only 1/10 the span of life on earth.

Also, the sun will not go nova. It is too small. It will slowly heat up,
expand into a red giant (exceeding the diameter of earth's orbit), and
collapse into a white dwarf.

So, cockroaches will have something like 3 billion years to evolve
intelligence and develop teleportation technology before earth becomes
completely uninhabitable.

Their chances of doing this are certainly better than ours.

-Ken