The concept of giant bombs and mutually assured destruction are so horrifying to me. We’ve.. fuck you can just barely comprehend the massive destruction of the nuclear bombs we have detonated and the fact that we have bombs now hundreds of times stronger than that is fucking horrifying. Theoretical bombs we haven’t even made yet, thousands of times stronger. I had… I used to do research with nuclear astrophysics for those that didn’t know, writing programs that model fusion processes in the cores of stars and then turning around and seeing nearly the same technology get used in labs designing types of thermonuclear bombs is horrifying. That Robert J. Oppenheimer speech, that quote from the bhagavad gita, now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. I see that and I know that’s how it’ll happen. 

I remember in an astronomy lab I taught, we calculated our own Drake Equation for fun. That last variable, L. It’s the length of time a civilization has where they emit signals into space. How long a civilization lasts before being destroyed. Over multiple classes, with hundreds of students, the average number that was guessed was only a couple hundred years. We’re nearly halfway through that.