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> which happens to be the exact sort humans have developed I disagree. Climate crisis, pure ignorance for destruction of nature, and not even a backup colony o
by cookiengineer 3y ago
> which happens to be the exact sort humans have developed
I disagree. Climate crisis, pure ignorance for destruction of nature, and not even a backup colony of our moon.
If we really were that intelligent as a species, we would value the survival of our own much more than a fictive self-invented imaginary value called "money" which actually has no meaning at all in the universe.
- ben_w 3y agoWe are absolutely not perfect, and the climate (and biosphere, and non-renewable resource depletion) are all indicators of our imperfections. Nevertheless, no other life has made it to the moon (let alone "and back") by its own design. I would love for us to have a backup colony on the moon; but until Starship (or equivalent) actually gets rolled out enough to make that affordable — or, better yet, a launch loop etc. — we have to make do with the Terran backups in the form of having settlements in every continent from Tamanrasset in the Sahara to Yakutsk in Siberia. Money is indeed fictional, but it's a very useful fiction that helps us make deals with each other and with ourselves at different times in our own lives. Just so long as we don't make the mistake of, for example, thinking we can feed people just by taking money from the rich without any extra thought given to where food comes from in the first place — as the saying attributed to some Native American tribal chief goes, you can't eat money.