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Re:The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mo... by aeternus on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @05:02PM (#20045447)
What is the actual goal of environmentalism on earth?

If it is to preserve diverse species, then it absolutely makes sense to colonize other planets and spread the wide variety of plants, animals, and other organisms. The earth will eventually be burned up by the sun.

Re:The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mo... by bunderbunder on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @05:06PM (#20045492)
Let's keep a sense of perspective here. What the sun's going to be doing a billion or so years from now seems like a rather remote concern compared to entire countries being underwater in a few decades.

If interstellar space travel is ever practically attainable - and, FWIW, that is still a controversial subject - then humans absolutely will figure it out. Or rather, they will just so long as they manage to extend both their existential and economic trajectories far enough for it to matter. Ain't nobody gonna be able to develop that kind of technology from Mars; they'll be way too busy on more prosaic tasks, like repeatedly checking their domes for leaks.

Re:The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mo... by spurgu on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @05:16PM (#20045596)
> Let's keep a sense of perspective here.

So like a few million years?