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While I think its extremely interesting and exciting to colonize Mars, both out of curiosity and the trickle down of new technologies that would be developed in
by gehwartzen 9y ago
While I think its extremely interesting and exciting to colonize Mars, both out of curiosity and the trickle down of new technologies that would be developed in the endeavor, I just don't personally feel any particular emotional drive to do so because humans might otherwise go extinct. I have a child and so have a very strong instinct of wanting to do everything I can to help him to survive as well as his children and grandchildren. Similarly I want people on the other side of the planet, whom I have never met, to survive simply because I know they exist now. Once I start to think beyond maybe 300 years these feeling deteriorate rapidly. If I think about our species being wiped out in 10,000 years I hardly have an emotional response at all.
Am I alone in feeling this way?
- grondilu 9y agoI think nobody can deny that, all other things being equal, short-term occurring events tend to matter more than long-term ones. Therefore, no matter how bad one can feel about the prospect of humanity being wiped out, that feeling can be made arbitrarily low by delaying the expectation of its occurrence.