Re:Why are there so few dead bugs on my windshield these days?
by namaria on Monday October 24, 2022 @01:56PM
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The compounds in NZ, mountaintops, deserts, islands, they are the now. There is clearly a drive to get off planet. It will most likely fail but it's happening.
Re:Why are there so few dead bugs on my windshield these days?
by raffraffraff on Monday October 24, 2022 @04:15PM
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Humans will never make it off earth. Perhaps we'll make extremely brief flights, like the flying fish.
Re:Why are there so few dead bugs on my windshield these days?
by namaria on Monday October 24, 2022 @05:52PM
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Sad thing is, we're probably gonna repeat our horrible colonial history, but with space ships.
Re:Why are there so few dead bugs on my windshield these days?
by jhbadger on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:02AM
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No, because there is literally no where to go. Mars is 100X harder to live in than Antarctica, which we still can't live without constant resupplies from developed areas of Earth. If those are gone, we can't live on Antarctica, let alone Mars or whatever (perhaps mythical) exoplanets we could only reach after hundreds or thousands of years on generation ships (which we also don't have the technology to make anytime soon)
Re:Why are there so few dead bugs on my windshield these days?
by yellowapple on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @01:32PM
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> Even a global warming (and nuclear war, let's throw that on the pile!) ravaged Earth is vastly easier to live on than, say, Mars.
Depends. Yeah, much harder to grow food or breathe on Mars, but probably a lot fewer angry mobs trying to eat you, too.
Well... no. They're prepping to move to compounds in New Zealand. Even a global warming (and nuclear war, let's throw that on the pile!) ravaged Earth is vastly easier to live on than, say, Mars. Trying to escape that way would be a frying-pan-into-the-fire plan.
> and when the mass migrations really start and mid income countries start becoming failed states on their path, I hope you are in a place that can hold you safe for the remainder of your time here.
But yeah, that's basically the reason why, I reckon. Somewhere sufficiently stable and liberal that's also really, really hard to reach without a ship or airplane. Avoiding the various climate refugee crises and wars we're likely to see in the coming decades probably is their motivation. New Zealand's a clear front-runner in that race.