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How do you keep yourself from becoming absolutely obsessed with all that is going wrong in the world
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2017-11-12 at 8:37 PM UTC
Originally posted by Sophie Mars seems pretty dope. Sign up with SpaceX.
It's off topic and I know nobody really cares what I have to say anyways, but I really don't like the whole "occupy mars" mentality. I definitely understand curiosity about space and the unknown, and I think that goal is admirable, but really we should be occupying earth. We're not fixing any of humanity's problems by becoming electrical engineers and helping design and make weapons. Going to mars isn't a good thing for humanity in that regard, it's trying to sweep the problem under the rug. We don't need another planet to destroy, we need to stop taking our consciousness for granted and acting like fucking primates and burning through our planet and resources. It's seriously the biggest slap in the face of evolution, we are given consciousness and the ability to reason and do things better but as a species we're just like "fuck it, let's keep acting uncivilized and fucking everything up, we can just get a new planet when we fuck this one up."
While at the same time we are playing russian roulette with whether we're even going to be able to get off this rock before we destroy it to the point where we literally all die. It's fucking bizarre man. -
2017-11-12 at 8:40 PM UTC
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2017-11-12 at 8:42 PM UTC
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2017-11-12 at 8:45 PM UTC
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2017-11-12 at 8:52 PM UTC
Originally posted by Ajax Suicide is the only mothrfucking answer that satisfies your unrealistic victim expectations of life. Ironic that the only answer to fixing your lackluster life is the lack of it.
has always been the case, which is why nirvana, martyrdom and 72virgins are only achieable after life has ended.
to think otherwise are delusions. -
2017-11-12 at 8:54 PM UTC
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2017-11-12 at 9:08 PM UTC
Originally posted by greenplastic It's off topic and I know nobody really cares what I have to say anyways, but I really don't like the whole "occupy mars" mentality. I definitely understand curiosity about space and the unknown, and I think that goal is admirable, but really we should be occupying earth. We're not fixing any of humanity's problems by becoming electrical engineers and helping design and make weapons. Going to mars isn't a good thing for humanity in that regard, it's trying to sweep the problem under the rug. We don't need another planet to destroy, we need to stop taking our consciousness for granted and acting like fucking primates and burning through our planet and resources. It's seriously the biggest slap in the face of evolution, we are given consciousness and the ability to reason and do things better but as a species we're just like "fuck it, let's keep acting uncivilized and fucking everything up, we can just get a new planet when we fuck this one up."
While at the same time we are playing russian roulette with whether we're even going to be able to get off this rock before we destroy it to the point where we literally all die. It's fucking bizarre man.
Don't be arrogant. We couldn't destroy the planet if we tried. Life has been around for much longer than we have and has survived much worse than humanity. Besides there is nothing to ruin on Mars, it's a barren wasteland. Besides, the Solar System has enough asteroids that contain enough materials to build up to a Kardashev 2 type of civilization. So why not go out there? If we fuck up, we fuck up, big deal, nothing really matters anyway in the grand scheme of things. Just let things play out, there isn't much else you can do really, except be a good person and try to make a difference in what little way you can if that is in fact important to you.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-11-12 at 9:10 PM UTCThey'll terraform mars though so it'll resemble an earth-like planet.
Consciousness is an individual thing, it shouldn't be required or forced against people to change their thinking.
Lets just give each group their own planet ... there are probably enough habitable planets in our universe to give every single person on earth their own planet and if we run out of space - birth a new universe. -
2017-11-12 at 9:12 PM UTC
Originally posted by Sophie Don't be arrogant. We couldn't destroy the planet if we tried. Life has been around for much longer than we have and has survived much worse than humanity. Besides there is nothing to ruin on Mars, it's a barren wasteland. Besides, the Solar System has enough asteroids that contain enough materials to build up to a Kardashev 2 type of civilization. So why not go out there? If we fuck up, we fuck up, big deal, nothing really matters anyway in the grand scheme of things. Just let things play out, there isn't much else you can do really, except be a good person and try to make a difference in what little way you can if that is in fact important to you.
You say that, but wait another 5,000 years and see where technology is. -
2017-11-12 at 9:15 PM UTC
Originally posted by 霍比特人说中文不好 You say that, but wait another 5,000 years and see where technology is.
Yeah and you honestly believe we still have the same attitudes towards life and everything in 5000 years? Compare people from 5000 years ago to us, that will be the difference. Unless you believe in the myth of the "noble savage" or similar horse shit. -
2017-11-12 at 9:17 PM UTC
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2017-11-12 at 9:17 PM UTCWhich got me thinking if the USS Enterprise really flies at warp 9 AKA 9 times the speed of light if it crashes into a planet it will obliterate it. Relativistic kill vehicles and all that.
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2017-11-12 at 9:17 PM UTCI like this thread.
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2017-11-12 at 9:21 PM UTC
Originally posted by Sophie Don't be arrogant. We couldn't destroy the planet if we tried. Life has been around for much longer than we have and has survived much worse than humanity. Besides there is nothing to ruin on Mars, it's a barren wasteland. Besides, the Solar System has enough asteroids that contain enough materials to build up to a Kardashev 2 type of civilization. So why not go out there? If we fuck up, we fuck up, big deal, nothing really matters anyway in the grand scheme of things. Just let things play out, there isn't much else you can do really, except be a good person and try to make a difference in what little way you can if that is in fact important to you.
We are already well on our way. You're right only on a technicality. We will never destroy the planet physically, true, but what good is it if everyone is dead? You're arguing a moot point. -
2017-11-12 at 9:24 PM UTC
Originally posted by Sophie Which got me thinking if the USS Enterprise really flies at warp 9 AKA 9 times the speed of light if it crashes into a planet it will obliterate it. Relativistic kill vehicles and all that.
Pretty much this. The faster you can accelerate a thing, the more likely humanity is to kill itself. Even if FTL is only possible in science fiction, I can see our species creating some pretty devastating shit along these lines. -
2017-11-12 at 9:24 PM UTC
Originally posted by greenplastic We are already well on our way. You're right only on a technicality. We will never destroy the planet physically, true, but what good is it if everyone is dead? You're arguing a moot point.
Wanna' bet humanity is still around when you are old and decrepit and dying? Nothing really matters beyond that point. That point being, your death. -
2017-11-12 at 9:25 PM UTCAlso, we have been around for 200k+ years, it will take a fuck up of biblical proportions to get rid of us now that we've spread around to every corner of the world.
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2017-11-12 at 9:27 PM UTCYeah, we should just have an epic party for the next hundred years and piss away all our resources. We'll all be dead by then, so fuck it. YOLO
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2017-11-12 at 9:28 PM UTC
Originally posted by HTS Pretty much this. The faster you can accelerate a thing, the more likely humanity is to kill itself. Even if FTL is only possible in science fiction, I can see our species creating some pretty devastating shit along these lines.
If you can accelerate a 200 by 200 by 200 meter block of steel to about 33% of light speed you already have a pretty good relativistic kill vehicle. -
2017-11-12 at 9:29 PM UTC
Originally posted by Sophie Also, we have been around for 200k+ years, it will take a fuck up of biblical proportions to get rid of us now that we've spread around to every corner of the world.
Trilobytes were around for hundreds of millions of years. They aren't here anymore.
It'd take a fuck up of proportions we have evidence for occurring multiple times throughout history.
