If the planet isn’t poisoned more and if workers (and the public in general) aren’t killed for arbitrary reasons on a whim, ascension is canceled. 
You don’t understand, what’s the point of continuing as a species if we aren’t expanding nonstop? Are we just going to let the sun continue to radiate more energy per second than humanity has ever used in total? That’s energy we could theoretically use to do something at some point!
brain applied to, well, everything would make humanity a galactic menace to any intelligent life out there if nothing else was changed except how far the “externalizations” went.
Better to remain trapped on Earth than to contaminate the galaxy with capitalism.
Elon’s doing his best to “fix” that
if we can’t preserve this planet we don’t deserve to go to a new one. We are the origin story of the sci-fi trope of an alien race that just goes planet to planet stripping resources and leaving.
We do a lot of
in the genre“HUMANITY FUCK YEAH” slop fiction tends to tell on itself by claiming that the only way to stop the evil aliens is by being evil to aliens.
“CAN’T PUT ALL EGGS IN ONE metabolic BASKET!” (he fucking said “metabolic” for real)Marx talks about the natural metabolism when he approached ecological issues, so it’s not so crazy to use the term. Of course
most likely uses it because he thinks it sounds cool.I highly doubt
had that in mind and just had a typo/brainfart and went with it.I was more defending the word “metabolic” than melon usk, but yeah I agree
The speculative science fiction in question? Red Rising
I was thinking The Outer Worlds
I think what he means is he should be allowed to do human experiments at SpaceX and Neuralink.
What he needs to do is get a Neuralink prototype installed in his own skull and rig it up to his Tesla Model Le Sexy Sex Cyberchariot and take it for a spin somewhere secluded with a lot of speed bumps
Probably. He isn’t getting enough Mengele jollies from cruelty to non-human primates.
Why would I want to leave Earth? If you think this planet sucks, one without a biosphere is really gonna whoop your ass.
Can’t have a greenhouse effect if you don’t have an atmosphere!Agreed, though I would like to go see what’s out there some day if I get the chance (to turn in to an incredibly robust form capable of surviving the long, long trip slow-boating to another sun)
I’ve had a lifelong fascination with space and a deep and painful yearning to explore the stars, which is why it hurts so fucking much that those dreams have been hijacked by billionaire manchildren that actually lack a child’s imagination on top of it all and just want to imitate what’s already on their screens in the clumsiest performative way.
Hard agree. They read Heinlein in 1986 and made it their entire personality, never reading another book again.
Why would I want to leave Earth?
I was thinking about this the other day. Earth is huge and well, was, beautiful, perfect planet to live on but people like musk have ruined it.
maybe once the libertarian rich guys trash the planet they want a rich person only escape hatch
edit: New Zealand bunker villa is not exotic enough
It will always be harder to colonized a new planet than to fix this one
Rich person escape hatch this way
here
Because the treats said that it would be a le epic Science Victory to land on Mars, and a Nolanesque epic moment would happen with Zimmer style BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMS and humans would ascend
“If you do t let me kill workers on earth how am I gonna make a space colony that relies on killing thousands of willing volunteers on mars?”
lol libertaryans really think if we had less regulations than the pitiful ones we have now, they’d get their Galt’s Gultch.
They already try Galt’s Gulches, over and over again in basically lawless parts of the Earth, and they fail pretty fucking fast over and over again, often from internal backstabbing and fraud.
Okay but hear me out, what if we tried it again, but this time in S P A C E??
Literal vampire Th!el admitted seasteading was a failure, and then in the same speech said that’s why spacesteading is next.
Sure it fails when there’s free breathable air, a comfortable temperature, many ways to simply leave, and it’s easy and cheap to ship supplies, but what if none of those things were true, and also any equipment malfunction wasn’t merely inconvenient but actively life-threatening?
has entered the chat.In case anyone hasn’t seen it or would like to see it again: https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project
And of course, we did have less regulations. No regulations at all at the start
These dorks give science fiction a bad name. Like calm down melon it’s going to take a little bit before we can harness all energy falling on earth from the sun k?
- is a dream peddler and a lot of “I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE” treat hogs don’t bother to stop and think about what the dream peddler is actually capable of, even if he got everything he wanted.
Bruv even the worst conditions on earth are more liveable than your mars pipedream. Even when climate change ravages this planet thanks to idiots you pander to it will be still be more liveable. He hates unions increasing liveable wages for his workees so much he did a mask off, does he have any idea how much it costs to keep people up on the ISS? Hell the cost per pound to get there? Yeah ait go ahead. He should take the trip
If you can terraform Mars, you can certainly terraform Terra!
Capitalism will never Terraform Mars. It is, however, on track to Marsform Terra.
can we just fucking fire this shithead to Mars already if he wants it so much
I am sure we could crowdfund a $1 donation campaign nationally to do this
I am sure we could crowdfund a $1 donation campaign nationally to do this
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The practical universe ends at the ozone.
Humanity is not going to live on other planets; not in the 21st century and almost certainly not in the 22nd century either. Hell, making a perminant residence on Mars or Veneous or whatever would be a centuries long undertaking – the sort of thing well beyond us. At best, at the very damn best, we can lay a foundation that may one day a very long time from now perhaps maybe have a chance of even starting such a thing. And by “lay a foundation” I mean preserve, restore, rehabilitate and care for the biosphere. If you really wanna see people in space, we need more regulation. Far, far more.
FALSAC or NoSAC
even if humans could organize and design fully self-sustaining habitats that did not require a biosphere or extensive body modifications (unlikely), there would be little reason for us to ever bother with the energy expenditure of transitioning into or out of a gravity well ever again.
Intra-Venus fertilization.
INCINERATE THE BIOSPHERE
This post isn’t in the Drej Tank… but maybe it should have been!
Drej queen we have new coordinates
‘regulatory overreach’
And the trend was something like “for every new environmental regulation you need to repeal 2” under Trump. Did Biden ever change that?
I’m fine with consolidating regulations until we have just one, which is that the CEO and board of directors are annually submerged into the pollution produced under their watch. Better make sure that wastewater is clean before you pour it into a river!
make it daily and we’ve got a deal
ADVENTURISTS
DO A FUNNY PRANK WITH ELON AND MY LIFE IS YOURS
it’s going to end up being a paid hit by the Saudis and thus so, so dissatisfying
