Archmage Azor@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-21 year agoIf we discover the means to travel faster than light, but researching and developing the technology means that the Earth is destroyed in just a few decades, should the technology still be pursued?message-squaremessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up141arrow-down1message-squareIf we discover the means to travel faster than light, but researching and developing the technology means that the Earth is destroyed in just a few decades, should the technology still be pursued?Archmage Azor@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-21 year agomessage-square92fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44arrow-down3·1 year agoYes. Why not extend our environmental destruction into the farthest reaches of the universe? The heat death of the universe will be humanity extracting every last bit of energy from it to sell ads for the most trivial bullshit imaginable.
minus-squarePsychedSy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoI love the idea of our expansion being dependant on destroying our own home planet. I’d nuke all of you in a second to get to travel the stars. Maybe carve “Later, bitches!” Into siberia with my motherfucking space lasers.
minus-squareMomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·1 year agoThe universe doesn’t give a shit what happens
minus-squareYeetPics@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down4·1 year agoAs part of the universe I can say this with conviction; you are incorrect.
minus-squareMomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·1 year agoBut you are not the whole, nor an adequate representation of it. None of us are.
minus-squareMomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoYes, that’s the point. Our views are all subjective creations of our own minds.
minus-squareYeetPics@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoYou can’t know that for a fact, you are not the whole, nor an adequate representation of it. None of us are.
Yes.
Why not extend our environmental destruction into the farthest reaches of the universe? The heat death of the universe will be humanity extracting every last bit of energy from it to sell ads for the most trivial bullshit imaginable.
I love the idea of our expansion being dependant on destroying our own home planet.
I’d nuke all of you in a second to get to travel the stars. Maybe carve “Later, bitches!” Into siberia with my motherfucking space lasers.
I like the way you think.
The universe doesn’t give a shit what happens
Humanity does though.
No, you do.
As part of the universe I can say this with conviction; you are incorrect.
But you are not the whole, nor an adequate representation of it. None of us are.
That’s just like… your opinion, man.
Yes, that’s the point. Our views are all subjective creations of our own minds.
You can’t know that for a fact, you are not the whole, nor an adequate representation of it. None of us are.