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Whenever I read enthusiasm like this for space travel .. especially talk of Musks interplanetary species and stuff, I get a flashback to Stark by Ben Elton . Pu
by jnsaff2 5y ago
Whenever I read enthusiasm like this for space travel .. especially talk of Musks interplanetary species and stuff, I get a flashback to Stark by Ben Elton . Published in 1989, getting closer to true by the day. Also probably the funniest book I've ever read.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_(novel)
- nickpp 5y agoI prefer to think of The Expanse instead. It seems a much more likely future to me. There are countless dystopic futures (they sell better) we already avoided so I prefer optimism.
- the_other 5y agoWhere's the utopia in The Expanse? Humans move offworld; two communities with stable infrastructure spend a century abusing a scattered sub-class; then they all get into a war because a sociopath egotist finds alien technology powerful enough to wipe them all out or mutate them into components of itself. And then there's the meteorites... Sounds idyllic.
- nickpp 5y agoThe utopia is that humanity is not stuck on a single planet anymore, with all eggs in one basket - so to speak. The rest I find just realistic though. I do not expect humans in space to behave much differently from humans on earth.
- timeon 5y agoIf I sum your two paragraphs new title can be: Swarm Of Locusts.
- nickpp 5y agoYes, we are a result of evolution and it is our evolutionary imperative to find and fill any biological niche available. You can try denying our nature but it is a futile endeavor. However, these "locusts" can discover and create. We can do art, science, understand the Reality and the Universe. I find this absolutely beautiful and breathtaking, especially for a "swarm of locusts".
- XorNot 5y agoI mean sure but who cares? It's a big empty universe - we owe it no moral consideration.
- dragonelite 5y agoYeah its as if politics while single planet species isn't hard enough already. Still i guess a lot of series and movies are still stuck in this end of history mode of the late 1990s and pre-2008 GFC. One single government inspired by the US system. A lot has changed in the last 14 years we seems to wade into a west vs east planet lets hope its stays a tech cold war.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoThere is no mutation. That's just the upload into a biocybernetical cloud substrate. Prepare to be disassembled for scanning!
- WalterGR 5y agothey sell better Citation?
- nickpp 5y agoMy shelves full of years and years of SciFi. Great majority - dystopias. Utopias are rather boring, I guess.
- PicassoCTs 5y agoCan't wait to have 9/11 but with disenfranchised people up in the gravity well pounding down on us well-dwellers..
- __s 5y agoThe Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoLike living in airlocked spaces, with the constant hum of air conditioning? Oh, the slummers on earth have UBI which is basically worth nothing.