# Existential Threats

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/existential-threats/932232>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 5, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/existential-threats/932232 "2021-02-05T01:51:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/existential-threats/932232/153 "2021-03-19T19:52:14Z")

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> [@Mijin](#):
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> Finally for a population so incredibly small they could probably live for decades at least on tinned food. There’d be 8 billion humans’ worth of resources lying around.

You think an asteroid impact that wipes out 99.99% of humanity is going to leave _decades_ worth of tinned food lying around?

Anyway, we just did this (or still kind of are) over [in a GQ thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-would-modern-society-handle-the-dinosaur-killing-meteor-if-it-happened-today/933856)

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