Comment by datsci_est_2015
6 months ago
The ocean floor is more habitable than Mars.
The asteroid belt likely contains more easily-obtained rare metals that also don’t have to escape Mars’ terminal velocity.
Reading a comment like the grandparent’s while we’re surrounded by many tangible crises on earth is sickening. Especially many of them manufactured by the same man who the grandparent comment seems to deify (DOGE AIDS funding).
Anyway, I find myself feeling contempt for the people in this industry pretty often.
Human problems are generally unsolvable, no matter how much money is spent on them.
Where's your defense? I know nihilism is hot, but this just seems like reverse copium
What’s a “human problem”?
Do you think enough spending will eliminate murder?
When poverty is defined as the lower quintile of income, poverty cannot be eliminated.
There will always be uncivilized people.
There are always be some people better off than others.
There will always be people smarter/handsomer/stronger/etc. than others.
There will always be people who want to destroy things.
There will always be people who take risks and ruin their lives.
There will always be alcoholics and drug addicts.
Consider how the standard of living has improved enormously over the last 200 years, yet nobody is satisfied.