Seed will not be denied

Once again, our overlords at Seed demand that we answer a question.

No, not "What is your favorite color?" or "What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow"? (To which, of course, everyone knows the answer is "African or European?")

This question:

"Will the "human" race be around in 100 years?"

My answer:

Yes, but sadly I won't.

Next question, please. (Grant writing forces me to be more succinct than usual.)

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Alain

I'm a physicist. My favorite science question is "Why don't atoms crash?" Opposite charges attract, of course. What keeps the nucleus from sucking in those juicy, oppositely charged electrons? Must be something, else there would be no atoms, no matter, no universe, and no blogs. :-)

I hope so. I'm thinking about writing an SF novel that would take place roughly 100 years from now. (Might be less, need to figure out the ages of the characters to tell for sure....)