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This. This is what I want the Elon Musks and Jeff Bezoses of the world to get through their heads. Real life isn't Star Trek. We don't just need to conquer spac
by _bxg1 7y ago
This. This is what I want the Elon Musks and Jeff Bezoses of the world to get through their heads. Real life isn't Star Trek. We don't just need to conquer space travel and then all of our problems will be solved as we unlock scores of fertile worlds. In many, many ways, Earth is all we've got.
- ken 7y agoIt was all the dinosaurs had, too, and then it was gone.
- shantly 7y agoUltra-hardened bunkers on earth are easier and cheaper to build and run than a half-assed Martian colony, and post-impact earth is less shit to live on than Mars. Unless the impactor’s, like, dwarf planet size.
- _bxg1 7y agoIt's one thing to have a backup plan. It's another thing to downplay urgent problems like climate change because "all we have to do is start colonizing other planets".