Re:Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa
by admissionsguy on Friday September 18, 2020 @04:48AM
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You could extend the argument to intra-national competition. What if instead of competing with each other, we were all aligned towards common goals. Unfortunately and sadly, such is human nature that we are hardly motivated by much else than one-upping each other.
Re:Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa
by java-man on Friday September 18, 2020 @09:59AM
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I think you basically identified the root cause of the issue. We are, unfortunately, only slightly evolved chimpanzees; We would gladly form groups to fight another group when bananas grow sparse.
Had we evolved from bonobos, things might have been different.
Re:Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa
by hasa on Friday September 18, 2020 @04:53AM
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This is true. Instead of competing against each other, we -I mean all nations and individuals - should do something to support efforts so that humans can some day escape this planet. Earth is not habitable forever.
Re:Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa
by dorgo on Friday September 18, 2020 @01:09PM
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I struggle to imagine what could happen to earth to make it less suitable to support human life than any other known planet.
Re:Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa
by hasa on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @02:56AM
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There are many very likely scenarios making this planet unhabitable: asteroid, black hole coming near solar system and moving planet distances, gamma ray burst, any deviation in sun's radiation. All these are clearly possible and likely to happen in the long run.
We built nuclear power plants not because we needed electricity, but because we needed plutonium for the bomb. We went to the moon in part because "it is hard", but mainly as a way to stick it to the Russkies. We built space telescopes to spy on the "opponent". Yes, that did indeed kept the world in a balance for quite some time, amazingly, but imagine if we, collectively, were just a tad smarter and instead of this, directed our efforts to science.