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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by courtf on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:03PM (#27911376)
On a long enough timescale aliens will come and rescue us! See how silly that sounds? Pretending to save humanity with absurdities is a cowardly way of facing the real, imminent problems we actually have here and now.
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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by tdfx on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:40PM (#27911854)
I don't understand why you think sustaining human life anywhere beyond earth is an absurdity. The large technological hurdles you mentioned aren't going to solve themselves, we have to start somewhere, and the sooner the better.
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