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| Topic | Would you leave Earth to settle an alien planet? |
| adjl 09/18/23 10:03:07 AM #38: | If it were my only chance for survival, and the quality of life would be relatively high when I got there? Sure. Otherwise, too much effort.
Count_Drachma posted... Leave it to the human ego to believe that humans can "f*** up" a planet. A planet is a giant rock ball floating in space. We don't have the technology (yet) to s***ter an entire planet. And I sometimes doubt that humanity as a species will ever band together and create the kind of technology needed to actually f*** up planets. Instead, we may have always have to settle for minor cosmetic damage. Alternatively, you could just recognize that when people say things like that, they're talking about making the planet inhospitable for human life (usually just to such an extent that survival would require a substantial shift in how we live, not fully overwhelming humanity's adaptive capabilities and causing extinction), not actually blowing it up. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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