Re:Vast New Stores of Water Reported on the Moon
by r3trohack3r on Friday April 14, 2023 @03:56AM
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Because we are well over 75% through the window this planet can support life and are headed towards a complete extinction event with little chance of survival?
Life has been here for ~4.2bn years, has another good 500-800m years left until our carbon cycles grind to a halt.
"Why do we need a space station?"
"To save all life on Earth"
I've grown rather disenfranchised with most ecological movements (outside of the Whole Earth branch). Given what we've learned about our planet in the last few decades, and our current understanding of where this planet is heading, it's hard to interpret their arguments as anything other than advocating for letting all life on Earth die a slow death over the next 1Bn years.
Life has been here for ~4.2bn years, has another good 500-800m years left until our carbon cycles grind to a halt.
"Why do we need a space station?"
"To save all life on Earth"
I've grown rather disenfranchised with most ecological movements (outside of the Whole Earth branch). Given what we've learned about our planet in the last few decades, and our current understanding of where this planet is heading, it's hard to interpret their arguments as anything other than advocating for letting all life on Earth die a slow death over the next 1Bn years.