re: #383 Salamantis
We should fervently hope that it is in the past, because we may not be able to breach a future Great Filter.
The creation of nuclear weapons is one such possible filter. The creation of weaponized organisms is another.
Or a religion appears that drives people back to the stone age and they die of a natural disaster.
/Any resemblance to any terrestrial religion, currently practiced or practiced in the past, is unintentional.