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I wonder which endgame is more probable: satellite, or space ship? We have people perfectly willing to shroud earth in sulphur to “protect” us from the sun, so

I wonder which endgame is more probable: satellite, or space ship? We have people perfectly willing to shroud earth in sulphur to “protect” us from the sun, so who’s to say those same types won’t repurpose the moon into a luxury spacecraft and take it on a joyride to distant stars?

salad-tycoon 4y ago
If I am to take your reply seriously, you mean colonize the moon with ultra rich people and then turn it into an arc ship to settle a new world? I mean, billionaires don’t strike me as the kind of people who would want to barely scrape by with limited access to air, water, food, sex, security, shelter until they finally perished cold and alone in the nothing.
- textninja 4y ago
  > If I am to take your reply seriously, you mean colonize the moon with ultra rich people and then turn it into an arc ship to settle a new world Yes, I said it in a jokey way but I’m actually seriously speculating about that as a distant future scenario, though I’d include their servants, clones, entertainers, staff, recruits, and progeny in that, along with probably a DNA bank of every person, animal, and strand of bacteria on earth. > with limited access to air, water, food, sex, security, shelter until they finally perished cold and alone in the nothing Who said anything about that? I mean, they’d be “limited”, yes, in the strictly mathematical sense that these things are finite, but they need not lack in abundance. I did say luxury space craft, didn’t I? I’m not talking about heated seats here, I’m talking nuclear powered underground cities…
- textninja 4y ago
  Also, just a side point but I don’t think billionaires value comfort as much as you think. If that was the case they probably would have stopped somewhere in the tens of millions.

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I wonder which endgame is more probable: satellite, or space ship? We have people perfectly willing to shroud earth in sulphur to “protect” us from the sun, so

by textninja 4y ago

salad-tycoon 4y ago
If I am to take your reply seriously, you mean colonize the moon with ultra rich people and then turn it into an arc ship to settle a new world? I mean, billionaires don’t strike me as the kind of people who would want to barely scrape by with limited access to air, water, food, sex, security, shelter until they finally perished cold and alone in the nothing.
- textninja 4y ago
  > If I am to take your reply seriously, you mean colonize the moon with ultra rich people and then turn it into an arc ship to settle a new world Yes, I said it in a jokey way but I’m actually seriously speculating about that as a distant future scenario, though I’d include their servants, clones, entertainers, staff, recruits, and progeny in that, along with probably a DNA bank of every person, animal, and strand of bacteria on earth. > with limited access to air, water, food, sex, security, shelter until they finally perished cold and alone in the nothing Who said anything about that? I mean, they’d be “limited”, yes, in the strictly mathematical sense that these things are finite, but they need not lack in abundance. I did say luxury space craft, didn’t I? I’m not talking about heated seats here, I’m talking nuclear powered underground cities…
- textninja 4y ago
  Also, just a side point but I don’t think billionaires value comfort as much as you think. If that was the case they probably would have stopped somewhere in the tens of millions.