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If by "expand beyond planet" you mean bilk investors out of billions of dollars pretending you have a plan to "expand beyond the planet" then yes.
by jacobsenscott 3y ago
If by "expand beyond planet" you mean bilk investors out of billions of dollars pretending you have a plan to "expand beyond the planet" then yes.
- bluescrn 3y agoForget billions of dollars. Trillions of dollars. And it may fail entirely, but it's probably got a better chance of success than trying to fix the climate while we still fight wars between nations.
- krapp 3y ago> but it's probably got a better chance of success than trying to fix the climate while we still fight wars between nations. No, it won't. It will literally have less chance of success, because you're combining the low probability of the necessary long term political will and all of the financial and technological difficulties with the actual fleeting possibility of interplanetary travel and then the nigh nonexistent possibility of long-term colonization. All while we still fight wars between nations. Just as the time to fix the climate was thirty years ago, the time to start our path towards becoming an interplanetary society was fifty or sixty years ago. I like sci-fi as much as the next nerd but the cold, hard reality is we're stuck here with the consequences of our actions. Aliens aren't going to save us, God isn't going to save us, Elon Musk isn't going to save us. The climate collapse is unavoidable and inevitable, and no solution is going to stop it, but at least we can mitigate the damage (as futile as that might be) and plan for our survival, instead of wasting time imagining the next ten thousand years in a pressurized tube on Mars.