One way to pass on something to the future is to have a child, but if you think about it, the task at hand is figuring out the world and there’s a lot of that still to do. So really creation is more important than procreation. But at what rate are we figuring out the universe? It seems like great ideas and inventions don’t come along that much, well they do but considering the amount of people in the world i’m always amazed that i don’t know at least a third of them
