Sordid
This is in extremely poor taste. I love it.
Am I the only one thoroughly enjoying this “find out” stage Reddit mods are going through? It’s so cute how surprised they act! I mean, regular mod power-tripping is bad enough, but actually thinking that you have a say in the policies of the faceless corporation you’re donating your labor to is an entirely different level of delusion. You’d think not being paid would give them a clue how much Reddit values them, but evidently not.
I don’t understand the obsession with colonizing other planets. The Earth’s gravity well is by far the greatest obstacle on our way to the stars. It makes absolutely no sense to me to finally claw our way out of one gravity well only to immediately descend into another one. The asteroids have all the raw materials we need, we should be focusing on zero-g industry and habitats.
You could totally do a centrifuge on a moon/planet surface, you’d just make it a funnel shape rather than a cylinder; the downward gravity of the celestial body combined with the outward centrifugal force would combine into artificial gravity perpendicular to the angled surface. But I have a feeling we’re going to get rid of our organic bodies long before our space colonization efforts reach a level where such solutions would be necessary. Brain-computer interfaces are already being worked on, and we’re able to replace a variety of vital organs with machines even with our current tech. Once we can turn ourselves into brains in jars that can plug into a variety of robotic bodies, life support and logistics in space are going to become dramatically simpler and easier.
I just want to tell you, that Transhumanism probably won’t happen in our time.
Neither will the large-scale colonization of other planets. Sure, we’ll build small research outposts, probably some Helium-3 mines on the moon to power fusion reactors back home. But cities on other planets? Hell no. Old sci-fi was wrong. They used to think we’d be on Mars by the year 2000, in reality we even gave up on the moon. The kind of huge engineering we used to envision is way too expensive and pointless. There’s nothing on Mars that Earth doesn’t have, so why bother? Instead, we’re focusing on ‘small’ technologies like medicine, computers, AI. I don’t see us expanding beyond our planet in a major way until these small technologies eliminate the need for those large-scale engineering projects.
Rebirth sucks.
I never understood that part. Maybe the next life does suck, but so what? I’m not going to be there to experience it, and the next guy won’t have any memory of me, so who cares? Reincarnation as a concept never made sense to me. You get a new body, your memories get erased… what is even left of you?
Christianity is “Life sucks and will always suck unless you submit to what we say and only what we say, otherwise you suffer forever”
And Buddhism doesn’t say that? The only difference is that Christianity adds “in hell” at the end of that sentence, Buddhism adds “in the cycle of death and rebirth”.