Re:Colonizing the galaxy would be good
by rdiddly on Friday April 14, 2017 @09:10PM
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If you agree that "things untouched by man" are "bad" and "things remade in the image and whim of man" are "good," then yeah, absolutely! If we can just keep a galactic perspective and get past these few little global catastrophes that afflict precisely all the planets inhabited by homo sapiens (I'm sure it's just a coincidence...) then we could build a real cool civilization you guys c'mon!
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Catastrophes are only catastrophes when they happen to conscious beings.
Every days, stars explode and planets are torn to pieces. None of it matters because there's nobody for it to matter to.
Moreover, any catastrophe on the table that humans can forseeably produce is nothing compared to nature. Pop off every nuke we've got in coral reefs, burn every forest into CO2 and dump all our toxic water in pristine rivers - the total effect will be nothing next to a decent-sized supervolcano eruption or asteroid strike. And that's not even getting into stellar events.
Re:Colonizing the galaxy would be good
by imsofuture on Friday April 14, 2017 @10:04PM
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It will still cement our position as catastrophically prolific assholes though...