Space sucks, there's nothing even up there. There are plenty of places on Earth that haven't been explored yet, finish with this planet before you start looking at other ones, nerds.

    • Michigan [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Stalin would shoot people over this dismissal of the next great industrial revolution.

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        3 years ago

        doing something we do on Earth but at much higher risk and cost to the environment so we can make more things to do the same stuff with really isn't an industrial revolution. Let's figure out how to best distribute what we already have, just adding more stuff isn't better.

        • Michigan [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Oh my god bud you need rare earths you just do unless we are going full bunga unga. How is asteroid mining a much higher risk? Do you think that by landing on a space rock we will inevitably direct them towards earth?

          • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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            3 years ago

            Oh my god bud you need rare earths you just do unless we are going full bunga unga

            this is true actually, some neanderthal made an iphone in 2008 and we left behind the stone age. there was no technology besides sticks and rocks before that.

            How is asteroid mining a much higher risk? Do you think that by landing on a space rock we will inevitably direct them towards earth?

            ok I wrote this wrong. I meant way higher risk for the humans and expense to the environment. space mining is more dangerous than earth mining because you have to make an environment humans can work in first. It's hard to keep a man-made environment on earth, let alone in space.

            • Michigan [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              It’s the first step towards interplanetary colonialization/ the ecologically controlled some cities humanity will probably have to live in by 2200. Luxury gay space communism doesn’t just happen overnight

              • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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                3 years ago

                I am so deeply opposed to that. Just work with what's already available on Earth. We have done a lot of terraforming already.

                  • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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                    3 years ago

                    No it's not. An ideology dictating the need to grow and develop admits it can't actually meet the needs of its adherents.