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If we put half the energy we use detecting more interstellar objects to building interstellar spacecraft we'd be able to fly to one to find out what it is. If
by gfodor 6y ago
If we put half the energy we use detecting more interstellar objects to building interstellar spacecraft we'd be able to fly to one to find out what it is.
If we put half the energy we use building interstellar spacecraft on neural implants we'd not worry about flying somewhere else to satiate our desires.
If we put half the energy we use working on neural implants on creating affordable housing and food production we wouldn't have people chasing after dreams of perceptual bliss.
If we put half the energy we put into affordable housing and food production into figuring out what Oumuamua was, we'd discover aliens and they'd solve all our problems.
- vkou 6y agoI don't think a few hundred million dollars a year is going to solve food production or affordable housing.