Can humanity truly become a multi-planetary species?
What must we solve first: AI, biology, energy, or governance?
we are discovering 16,000 new species PER YEAR right now. more than any point in human history. we know about 2.5 million species. the real number might be in the BILLIONS. if aliens asked us how many species live on our planet we would literally have to say ‘we don’t know.’ ‘we’ve been here for 300,000 years and we still haven’t finished the inventory’