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All of those ideas are much more problematic than people acknowledge. I can only compare them to the badly conceived startup ideas that have gone under the minu
by throwaway5752 7y ago
All of those ideas are much more problematic than people acknowledge. I can only compare them to the badly conceived startup ideas that have gone under the minute easy money disappeared.
In terms of underground or dome living, that has been attempted at small scale and timeframe and with external support and failed. People talk about a lot of things, but ultimately only 12 humans have ever step foot on anything other than the Earth, for total of less than a week. Mars is 500 times further away than the moon. The underground stuff is most plausible and has lots of issues.
It is extremely frustrating to read stuff like this because it's easier and more likely to succeed to prevent global warming in the first place than it is to deal with the worst consequences.
- growlist 7y agoPlease post with a non-throwaway account, and I'll respond. Edit: since the name of your account is apparently inaccurate - I think you're comment is pretty daft, to be frank. I'm speculating that a few thousand souls might hang on after the deaths of billions, and you seem to be saying that merely talking about this prospect will make humanity collectively think 'hey! it's only going to be the vast majority of humanity that will die, so let's continue burning fossil fuels!'? Be serious.
- yifanl 7y agoI'm not sure if you've actually looked at the account, but it has a longer comment history than your own.
- growlist 7y agoAh, well perhaps a better name would help then.
- effingwewt 7y agoTo be fair how different is it from using a random name like 'growlist'? Since when does the handle someone uses to post correlate to the substance of said post?
- throwaway5752 7y agoI can't reply to your first reply, but you completely misread me, "it's easier and more likely to succeed to prevent global warming in the first place than it is to deal with the worst consequences" It is critical to human survival in the current and next generation to almost completely eliminate fossil fuel consumption, as well as mine and sequester vast amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. It will be easier and more likely to succeed to do that than create bio domes or extraterrestrial colonization.
- throwaway5752 7y agoAppreciate that. I started it as throwaway almost 7 years ago, but got attached. Can't change the name, and don't really care to at this point!
- dang 7y agoWe change account names for people all the time. Just email hn@ycombinator.com with the username you'd prefer.
- throwaway5752 7y agoThank you! Didn't know that was an option, and appreciate your reaching out. Would you prefer I change, to discourage throwaway usage?
- dang 7y agoIt's entirely up to you. If you'd like a different name, let us know. If you're attached to this one, carry on. The only thing we don't allow is trollish usernames, since they end up trolling every thread they post to. That includes special cases like using someone else's real name (we had a pseudo-Britney Spears the other day).
- throwaway5752 7y agoI'll hold onto it, but thank you for that and all you do here (including keeping us safe from the would-be pop idols dopplegangers of the world).