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the basic urge of a species to expand over all available domain Is that a basic urge? The actual glory of exploration? Or is it the need for resources? You ref
by perardi 4y ago
the basic urge of a species to expand over all available domain
Is that a basic urge? The actual glory of exploration? Or is it the need for resources? You reference the Donner Party, which was on its way to California, which had actual useable and useful resources. So of course people wanted to go there—there’s an ocean and sunshine. Mars has…uh…corrosive dust?
- programmarchy 4y agoWhy do you think Alex Honnold free climbed El Cap? Why do people pay money to go skiing, sky diving, or scuba diving?
- djur 4y ago> Why do you think Alex Honnold free climbed El Cap? Not to live on it!
- hospadar 4y agoTo carry a single raisin to the top, then he climbed it a million more times to bring more raisins, then he made a jet engine from the raisins. Then he started bringing more raisins so that he could make a raisin plane for the amazing raisin engine. In the intervening thousand years, other climbers learned to cybernetically modify their bodies to be able to climb every rock face on the planet. The resulting boom in cybernetic technology granted immortality and immunity to all diseases to humanity. Humans never did master the raisin jet though (because they learned to transfer their conciseness over the internet so honestly jet engines seem kinda silly). /S
- palata 4y agoWell the taxpayers did not have to invest trillions for that to happen, if I remember correctly :)
- idlewords 4y agoIt's doubly amusing since the conditions the Donner Party died in were like Hawaii compared to Mars.