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Can't wait to have Isis in space.. We kicked the problem of growing up as a species down the road for so long, now it's time for a nuke for everyone (who is not

Can't wait to have Isis in space.. We kicked the problem of growing up as a species down the road for so long, now it's time for a nuke for everyone (who is not in a gravity well). Let's get this over with by bribing us out of today's problems into even bigger tomorrow's problems with the tools of yesterday to handle internal crisis. Sure downvote reality, that will make it go away. The sort of points I want to see, the bankruptcy of "I have no plan".

maxlin 3y ago
Are you on drugs? What the hell are you even trying to say? Something something if Elon instead worked in a charity we'd be better off just with no EV's, SpaceX, OpenAI etc... ? I'm downvoting you because you're wasting everyone's time and being demotivational about a great thing. The only true progress is technological.
- 93po 3y ago
  He seems very much under the influence or otherwise ill
  - Aerbil313 3y ago
    I understand his point. He refers to the shortsightedness of human race in terms of handling new technologies which bring a lot of risks.
- pasabagi 3y ago
  It's basically a line out of the Expanse series: if you make getting into orbit trivial, and if doing things in space becomes trivial, it becomes conceivable to redirect asteroids so they hit the planet, which would be bad for the people living there. I don't know if it's a realistic problem, my guess is it probably is, but not significantly worse than what we already have with nuclear proliferation. The basic problem is pretty real, though: we're at a stage of technical development where it's really easy to render the planet uninhabitable, while we're at an uninspiring level of cultural development that makes it really hard to produce sensible policy.
  - maxlin 3y ago
    You're giving him a lot of credit turning a vague angry anti-tech tirade in to that. However, I tend to agree and say that it would be hopeless to try consider something with a bazillion influential moving parts and as volatile like human civilization something we could try to "make safe" before working on better space access, which itself might well increase our robustness.

maxlin 3y ago

Are you on drugs? What the hell are you even trying to say? Something something if Elon instead worked in a charity we'd be better off just with no EV's, SpaceX, OpenAI etc... ? I'm downvoting you because you're wasting everyone's time and being demotivational about a great thing. The only true progress is technological.

93po 3y ago
He seems very much under the influence or otherwise ill
- Aerbil313 3y ago
  I understand his point. He refers to the shortsightedness of human race in terms of handling new technologies which bring a lot of risks.
pasabagi 3y ago
It's basically a line out of the Expanse series: if you make getting into orbit trivial, and if doing things in space becomes trivial, it becomes conceivable to redirect asteroids so they hit the planet, which would be bad for the people living there. I don't know if it's a realistic problem, my guess is it probably is, but not significantly worse than what we already have with nuclear proliferation. The basic problem is pretty real, though: we're at a stage of technical development where it's really easy to render the planet uninhabitable, while we're at an uninspiring level of cultural development that makes it really hard to produce sensible policy.
- maxlin 3y ago
  You're giving him a lot of credit turning a vague angry anti-tech tirade in to that. However, I tend to agree and say that it would be hopeless to try consider something with a bazillion influential moving parts and as volatile like human civilization something we could try to "make safe" before working on better space access, which itself might well increase our robustness.