There's even more problems than those... Endless problems. But we can't just sit on earth and wait for aliens to come and extinctify us - we gotta build! People will invent some stuff, then it'll happen. Eventually we'll terraform all of the planets, even the ones so far out the sun just looks like another star. We'll even terraform Jupiter, in a sense, by putting a shitload of geostationary satellites in orbit, so you can walk around at earth gravity. No idea how to handle the crazy radiation from Jupiter's magnetic field, but we'll figure it out.
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i think that surviving the oncoming pole shift disaster is far more important than trying to get out to space and i believe that it's possible our ancestors will fulfill their promise and come and help us out. but at the same time, they may not, and achieving the level of recovery that will be required to be able to even just have things like cars again will probably take at least 100 years or more, if we are without help.
if we are all alone in facing this, then only a very few of us will survive and it will take a long time for us to even get back to steam age.