• Maeve@kbin.earth
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    3 days ago

    So, I’m not digging through all my comments to find it, but I’ve said a while back they’re planning to take the money, colonize space and take enough regular people to be slaves and leave the rest of us here to deal with the mess they made.

    God only knows the mess they can make here, while making a worse mess of Earth and maybe the galaxy.

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      2 days ago

      Nah, they’ll stay where it’s best for a person to be, which is on earth. Space is a great place to visit but it’s not gonna be a more pleasant place to stay than earth for a long time if ever

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      2 days ago

      I mean, they are stupid cocaine-brained man-children, but it would be history’s greatest fuckup to *choose * space over Earth. No matter how much we manage to fuck it up, it will always be more suitable for life than space or mars.

      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        it will always be more suitable for life than space

        Not always. Eventually, our sun will expand and render Earth too hot for life.

        Do we need to leave Earth today? No. Do we need to leave Earth soon? No. Is it wise to make long-term plans? Yes.

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        3 days ago

        Robert Heinlein or some other sci-fi writer wrote about it in the 60s or 70s, and the ruling class seems intent on using dystopian sci-fi as instruction manuals, so sure, pick your character from any tale.

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        2 days ago

        goa’ulds have the luxury of using a stargate or a ha’tak to escape a planet when the people revolt. these fools think they have a spaceship to escape with.