It's not simple and this mindset that "You stand in a field of diamonds" from the 19th-century prosperity gospel has caused immense harm in all kinds of different ways for as long as our civilization has believed ithttps://twitter.com/TheWholeTruthXX/status/1368176569286615042 …
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Many, many of the problems we have today are born of this ideology of limitless expansion, "You have to spend resources to gain resources" Imagining that this world is a 4x game like Civ, the map's been seeded with resource tiles and the point of the game is to expand
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I mean like I don't even necessarily want to try to win the argument that this isn't true I just want to point out how many people have never *considered* that it might not be true, that they take its truth as an *assumption*
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It's like, you've applied this moralizing lens to different possibilities "The world out there is full of wonders waiting to be grasped" is the motto of cool, badass, heroic people "The world out there is full of danger and death to be feared" is the motto of cowards and babies
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But that doesn't have anything to do with WHETHER IT'S TRUE Whether there ACTUALLY IS a positive RoI to "going out there" is a FACTUAL matter, something that can be evaluated by looking at what actually is out there
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This thing people do where they make decisions based on what would be the right choice if they were a character in a movie "The guy who says no, I'm staying home and not going on the cool adventure is the loser"
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Well, there are different kinds of movies What if this isn't a cool adventure movie, what if it's a horror movie and I'm the one telling you not to go into the woods
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Well, as far as we know there's no indigenous life, let alone anything we can make miserable or be made miserable by so that whole subset of your argument is moot at this time. It would take larger scales of time to deplete solar system resources than I feel we need worry about.
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The only resource that really matters is energy and there is no near-term positive RoI in energy from going to Mars or going anywhere else (there's no fossil fuels to burn or anything like that)
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Building solar satellites in orbit, maybe, sure Nothing that requires putting human boots on other rocks (The most plausible such scenario, mining He3 from moon dust, the basis of the movie Moon, is still this huge longshot)
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(semi serious aside: why Mars first? Why not focus on a moon colony first?)
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