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The reason for a backup is not poverty or other things that you can possibly fix, but extinction events, such as nuclear war, evil AI, virus etc.
by wellboy 9y ago
The reason for a backup is not poverty or other things that you can possibly fix, but extinction events, such as nuclear war, evil AI, virus etc.
- jansho 9y agoSure. We need the backup for worst case scenarios like that. What about the world as it stands now? We need the wealthy to jump on that bandwagon, not the former. I understand that Elon Musk actually wants to reboot space race to ramp up innovation (sorry I can't remember the source, but I believe it was an early interview where he was talking about NASA not being as forward-looking as it used to be.) But it's hard not to be cynical when there is still a lot of suffering in this world. Can't we make everyone in this world at least have dinner everyday?
- wellboy 9y agoThere are a lot already fighting poverty, diseases and the like, no one did something about space exploration. So would it be smarter to say that you need another one fighting the former or that you add the first to find a solution for one of humanity's biggest threats in the next century?