What if?....

What if...these 'hypothetical' events happen?

(1) This planet is hit by an "extinction event" asteroid within the next 30 years,
with no prospects of deflecting in in time.
(if it happens within 30 years, the most optimistic estimates are there will only be
at most 10-20 people on Mars and the moon...And they too would die off within
a few years.)

(2) A 100% lethal virus, with no immediate antidote, spreads across Earth in less
than 2 months in the year 2006 (for example only).
The result is more than six billion human-beings die off by 2007....The survivors
in places like Antarctica, onboard ISS, onboard ships and subs, and scattered on a few remote
islands around the world revert to (at best) a pre-industrial (18th Century) condition.

(3) This Solar System is hit by aN awesomely and massively destructive "Cosmic String" sweeping through our interplanetary 'neighborhood' in the year 2525. There are thousands of colonists on the moon, Mars and the asteroids by then, and the massively destructive
CS kills them all....and then it's the turn of the inhabitants of the Earth to face its thoroughly
destructive power.
(I understand that the concept of the existence of "Cosmic Strings" is a legitimate one in science.)

Two of the three 'hypothetical' examples given are potential "total-extinction" events for humanity....If they were to happen...space colonist proposals, and even rudimentry 'space-colonies' would die with humanity...
and then...you're left with some philosophical questions:
"WHY?...WHY LIFE HERE?...AND WHAT DID HUMANITY ACCOMPLISH IN THE END?"

Jacob

"This planet has a 100 percent mortality rate."