My death doesn't bother me. The death of the earth has a stronger emotional... because then no one would read my book, The Double Helix. I mean, everything would just vanish, and you know, if the sun cools down, and then suddenly there's nothing, and...

[Q] It will.

And that, I, I know, and that, if I think about it, could make me gloomy. Individual death, not so, but, it's just because you can really consider the extraordinary, how extraordinary human beings are, and what we've done with civilization, and our difference from trained chimps. And, I mean, it's unbelievable. And, all this would vanish. So, that source of, you know, it's not the end of the disappearance not the end of civilization, it's the disappearance. So, we somehow have to conquer going to other planets.

[Q] Right. So, that's an obvious implication. And, and, do you think we should invest in doing that?

Yes. Eventually, yes. If, you know, this global warming, I refuse to get excited about, but the cooling down of the sun, I would get excited by.