NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Success

Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by Waterluvian on Saturday January 14, 2023 @05:24PM (#34384734)

> I would wager than as soon as a technological civilization is born, it's morally reprehensible to let it go extinct, since it no longer is at the full whims of evolution.

I see the logic here. But why, though? And technology is everywhere in non-human nature. While I think our technology and civilization is unlike anything else here, it’s still on the spectrum of nature’s exercise of community and technology. Are we really that special?

I think this heads towards the whole “Prime Directive” line of reasoning.

P.S. Eloi > Morlocks, of course. ;)

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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by avgcorrection on Saturday January 14, 2023 @05:38PM (#34384826)

> I see the logic here.

There’s no logic there. Just a faith in “potential”.

It is arguable one way or the other whether civilizational humans have caused more happiness or more suffering for Earth (all of us lifeforms combined). So the only way to call such a thing “morally reprehensible” is if you assume that Civilization will eventually evolve into some awesome, fantastic, space-faring, all-needs-met, stewards of the near solar system fantasticness.

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