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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by Waterluvian on Saturday January 14, 2023 @05:29PM (#34384770)
Countless species of life have come, changed, and went over billions of years. But we arrive in the last few hundred thousand years and declare, “stop the cycling!”

I completely see (and share) your reasoning. But I think it’s very anthropocentric.

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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by XorNot on Saturday January 14, 2023 @05:40PM (#34384845)
Well guess what when there's no humans left alive, whether this is anything no longer matters because the value system died with them.
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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by Waterluvian on Saturday January 14, 2023 @05:44PM (#34384875)
If life blooms on a wet rock but nobody’s around to say, “that’s pretty,” did it matter?
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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by XorNot on Saturday January 14, 2023 @05:53PM (#34384932)
No, because your entire sense of what's "beautiful" or "right" has died along with you and the rest of the human race.
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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by wonderwonder on Saturday January 14, 2023 @07:59PM (#34385698)
All life is whatever their version of anthropocentric is. Life simply seeks to survive and replicate. We are simply life forms seeking to secure our own survival and spread. Evolution has worked to create us and we will do what evolution wants which again is to survive even if at the expense of all others.
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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by hypertele-Xii on Saturday January 14, 2023 @08:27PM (#34385854)
Every form of life on this planet almost by definition is actively fighting to stop the cycle on their part, by replicating DNA, information, the opposite of entropy and death.

There is nothing human-centric about life wanting to continue.

Horseshoe crabs haven't changed in 250 million years. What's your opinion on them "stopping the cycle"?

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