You’re right. In about 700 million years or so when the sun’s increasing luminosity causes the carbon cycle to cease. Let’s hear that again. 700 million years. Until then, and barring a few meteor/asteroids coming our way, that we by, that time should have the technology to defeat or a super eruption or two to weather away, we’re on our Utopia. The planet that made us, evolved us and shaped us and the one that we’re adapted to.
I’m as space crazy and anxious for exploration and discovery as the next person and I live in the hope that the discovery of life out there happens in my lifetime but what you’ve just said is silly. We should be doing everything in our power to fix home and not give in to the idea that we can’t so let’s look at the next place to fuck up.
but to agree with you on one angle, the spirit of human endevour should drive the dream to explore…but the race to mars shouldnt be because we are fucking this joint up beyond recognition.
im not comfortable with the whole thing, its either to send the poor up there, or the rich…either way, its the continual dividing of the haves and have nots…
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
Eh? How can you state this? Did you live during the tens of thousands years during which humans were nomads? Did you live during the antique ages, or during the middle ages?
There is absolutely no proof that these people were less happy than us. Read Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens if you haven’t already done it. It’s an interesting eye-opener regarding the life of our nomad ancestors.
If I’d have stopped at 18 I’d be a Catholic leftie. If I could recommend a sound basis for humour and world view, I’d say read all of Adams, Pratchett and Tolkien by the age of 16 and move on from there.
I quoted a perfectly apt passage and you referenced it with a poor insult. That’s on you, not me. Maybe if you’d have read the books the insult would have been a little sharper?
Nevrt found him particularly entertaining or even passably readable. I did try before 16 though and never picked up anything of his again. Tolkien was devoured in single sittings, though.
