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Discovering life outside of earth would be the greatest human achievement for the next 5000 years, but you’re worried about if it’s worthwhile?
by alfiedotwtf 3y ago
Discovering life outside of earth would be the greatest human achievement for the next 5000 years, but you’re worried about if it’s worthwhile?
- yen223 3y ago"Is it worthwhile?" is not a bad question to ask. If someone proposed to use all of our resources to discover life outside of Earth, we would probably agree that's not the best use of our resources. But this means there's an upper bound to the cost we're willing to bear. Which leads to the question, how much resources should we devote to finding life outside of Earth? The answer to that question is, yes, dependent on the expected economic outcome of finding extraterrestrial life.
- wnc3141 3y agoAbsolutely in that sense the ends justify the means. I was just wondering what we can get from the means themselves given how far off achieving that end appears.
- zaphirplane 3y agoWhat if they treated humans the same way human empires treated other humans in America, Canada, Australia, South America , New Zealand