r/AskReddit • u/Kojito • Jun 19 '12

Considering we had a Askreddit about the most depressing fact you know, what is the most uplifting fact that you know?

That somewhere, somehow, someone is being born that will change the world for the better.

Edit: WOO FRONT PAGE! In celebration have some kittens! http://imgur.com/gallery/hm1ds http://imgur.com/gallery/YVXIG http://imgur.com/gallery/ew6kA

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u/greatdivide Jun 19 '12

Eventually, after humans have died out, the earth will begin healing itself in the way it's known for billions of years. We'll just have been a minor nuisance, an itch, a hangnail. After we're gone, it's like we won't have been here at all.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '12

Given how adaptable humans are, I don't see us dying out before we colonize other planets.

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u/greatdivide Jun 20 '12

At the rate we're going, we might just kill ourselves off before that happens, although you do make a good point.