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Well feel free to hang around on Earth while the rest of the species launches exciting scientific and engineering endeavors. > It's kind of hilarious to think
by FridgeSeal 9y ago
Well feel free to hang around on Earth while the rest of the species launches exciting scientific and engineering endeavors.
> It's kind of hilarious to think that people seriously propose terraforming mars as a strategy to avoid the dangers of global warming or nuclear war;
Is anyone actually saying this though? I honestly don't think I've ever seen this suggested.
- jon_richards 9y agoMusk says things close to this. He believes we eventually either expand into space or go extinct. There are lots of potential filters that could end us: global warming, nuclear war, the eventual death of the sun, etc. Just getting a second planet gives us a ton of protection from many of these filters and we have to start working on a way to leave the solar system at some point, so it may as well be now.
- BigJono 9y agoAlso, survival aside, I'm of the opinion that "just because" is a perfectly valid reason to set up colonies, terraform planets etc. I wasn't born for the moon landing. I feel like I'm going to be upset if I make it to old age and we haven't accomplished anything as great as that in my lifetime.
- zzzzzzzza 9y agothis is where I'm saying people are totally brainwashed into thinking the moon landing is greater than, I don't know, the development of the first compiler. The first compiler dwarfs the moon landing in terms of implications. More recently I would put alphago beating human grandmasters at go ahead of the moon landing. I would put crispr ahead of the moon landing. I would put the current progress on self driving cars ahead of the moon landing.