• Nudding@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      10 months ago

      In a post scarcity society capable of folding dimensions for space travel, or can survive for thousands of years in regular space flight, yeah absolutely, do you watch cells divide for entertainment?

        • Nudding@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          10 months ago

          They do it for pay so they don’t starve. We are very much not in a post scarcity society.

          • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            4
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            10 months ago

            You have such a void of interest and wonder that Im beginning to think you are the aliens we are talking about.

            You think scientists study for pay? We find ways to get paid so we dont starve from the studying. The study is the point, it always has been

      • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        10 months ago

        Yes, 100% every time, yes, for the same reason people crouch and watch in fascination as the ants and the springtails go about their unfathomable business.

        How do you not have this curiosity of the endless wonder beneath your feet

        • Nudding@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          10 months ago

          It died when I realized I was born into the species that kills all the other species.

          • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            10 months ago

            Thats just more reasons to be studying those species before they die out so we can properly prevent the dying.

            Thats, like, 40% of my job

            • Nudding@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              10 months ago

              We are still competing when we should have been cooperating 50 years ago as a global society. There is no preventing the coming catastrophe Imo.

              • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                10 months ago

                Oh, well in that case youre flat faced wrong. We can absolutely avert a large amount of the damage coming, easy.

                It will require a lot of legislation to reign in corporation pollution and ecological destruction, but we arent even close to the event horizon. Quit reading doom and gloom fluff pieces.

                  • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
                    link
                    fedilink
                    arrow-up
                    1
                    arrow-down
                    1
                    ·
                    edit-2
                    10 months ago

                    Ive already told you I work in the field of ecology.

                    Its not hope, its the conclusions derived from the work I do.

                    The conclusions which get cut in half, summarized, misread, reworded, and then dramatized by doom and gloom fluff pieces to get clicks.

                    Do me a favor? Pull your head out of your ass before it gets stuck around your jawline. We arent fucked yet, but your shitbrained attitude is doing its best to make sure we get fucked.