Funny. I wrote a blog post sometime back claiming that an external real or perceived threat is a unifying factor for societies and nations.
So if we want to unite the earth, we need an extra terrestrial threat. It could be asteroid or alien invasion. Now these are less probable, hence we should set up Martian colonies and then just allow the earthlings to do their thing. They will eventually treat Mars humans as a threat. This is our only option to unify the earth.
Simply having an "exit" from the complications on Earth, the possibility of relocating to Mars and starting from scratch, would give a lot of people hope, something to look forward to.
It could also end up being an exclusive resort for the elite of our society to escape to, so they may no longer have to pretend to care about Earth at all.
Sounds eerily similar to concepts in the Sci Fi novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)
Re:US Army applying new areas of math
by CarlSchmitt on Friday March 22, 2019 @12:54AM
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> This is our only option to unify the earth
Why do we think that a unified earth will be a good thing? It seems too utopian to me...
Unified as in: Nobody trying to harm each other, or other species, or prevent them from doing their thing.
Why would anybody think that's not a good thing?
Re:US Army applying new areas of math
by CarlSchmitt on Friday March 22, 2019 @01:12AM
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> Why would anybody think that's not a good thing?
It sounds boring...
This is kind of the same logic that often makes me wish for an extraterrestrial invasion.
An alien species has a much higher chance of treating us all equally, than we do ourselves.