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Imagine an island with two tribes, except that one of the tribes has a boat, and the other doesn't. Do both tribes want to preserve the coconut trees on the isl
by oskarth 12y ago
Imagine an island with two tribes, except that one of the tribes has a boat, and the other doesn't. Do both tribes want to preserve the coconut trees on the island, or is one tribe willing to take all of the coconuts with them on their boat?
Sure. And that would suck. But that's not an argument against boats. Take the bigger perspective. The universe is bigger than you can ever imagine, on any scale.
- kibwen 12y agoI wasn't intending it as an argument against boats, but your scenario becomes quite bleak when you add in the fact that there exist less than a dozen islands in the world, and only one of them is known to actually support coconut trees by dint of not being perpetually on fire. "The universe is bigger than you can ever imagine" indeed, and I'm not advocating against space exploration. But humans as a species will never venture beyond the solar system; self-replicating robots designed to withstand 200,000 years of space travel might.