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.

  • 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.

              • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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                3 years ago

                a plan on how to work with what you have to improve your conditions. 5-year plans are not an inherent part of Communism, just a tool to be used sometimes. Stalin's plan wasn't to just add more resources to the Soviet Union, but change how the resources it had were being used.