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To quote Babylon 5 Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thin
by ta1243 1y ago
To quote Babylon 5
Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes, and - all of this - all of this - was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars
- ninetyninenine 1y agoThe odds are against us. We will never go to the stars. But it doesn’t matter for us as we will likely die before any of this happpens.
- zppln 1y agoAnd those stars will go out as well.
- bilbo0s 1y agoWell true. That's the fallacy in the given argument.
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- rbanffy 1y agoBy then we’d better understand how to implement a “Let there be light” procedure. Might very well be the last question we need to ask ourselves.
- andrewflnr 1y ago"Implement Fiat Lux" is a hell of a title for a sci-fi story, if nothing else.
- antonvs 1y agoHappily when Asimov wrote the same story, he didn't give away the punchline in the title.
- andrewflnr 1y agoSure, if you put it in the title you need a different punchline. :D
- rbanffy 1y agoIt would be a different tale altogether - probably engineers discussing how ludicrous the idea is, until it's feasible, and then debating the consequences before pressing the red button.
- andrewflnr 1y agoYeah. I think I was really imagining it as a chapter title in something like Ra [0]. Sam is good at bombastic chapter titles. [0] https://qntm.org/ra https://qntm.org/ra