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If humanity fails on earth, I'm going down with the ship. Being trapped in a bunker with the same 10 people on a planet that resembles popular conceptions of He
by dave_sullivan 5y ago
If humanity fails on earth, I'm going down with the ship. Being trapped in a bunker with the same 10 people on a planet that resembles popular conceptions of Hell for the rest of my days is a fate worse than death.
Also, something something, human nature. If we actually do fail on earth, we will definitely fail on mars.
- young_unixer 5y ago> If we actually do fail on earth, we will definitely fail on mars. Not if you change the "we". If you select people from only the the top 5% of the smartest, most productive, and respectful/empathetic people, then it probably won't fail. Earth failed because some of us (say, the lower half) are dragging the rest down.
- kaba0 5y agoYou mean the inbred billionaires that can pay for that?
- young_unixer 5y agoNo, I mean that the first people that colonize mars won't be selected randomly from our earth population. They will be selected because they have some useful ability and psychologically stable character, which will create a whole different culture on the planet.
- kaba0 5y agoAnd you base it on what?
- young_unixer 5y agoOn the fact that astronauts go through a lot of filters before being selected to go to space.
- dave_sullivan 5y agoYou know there's a popular school of thought that basically says, "Thinking you are better than people leads to bad things", or at the very least people thinking you are an asshole and not wanting to be around you?
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- young_unixer 5y agoYeah. I'm trying to do better. In my defense: I'm not an asshole IRL, just on the Internet (I think).
- fighterpilot 5y agoUnless we fail on earth because of an asteroid impact.