Archmage Azor@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-210 months agoIf we discover the means to travel faster than light, but researching and developing the technology means that the Earth is destroyed in just a few decades, should the technology still be pursued?message-squaremessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up154file-text
arrow-up154message-squareIf we discover the means to travel faster than light, but researching and developing the technology means that the Earth is destroyed in just a few decades, should the technology still be pursued?Archmage Azor@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-210 months agomessage-square84fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareArchmage Azor@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoIt’s a philosophical dilemma. Is it worth destroying all we have in hopes of finding something more?
minus-squareLastYearsPumpkin@feddit.chlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoNo? How is that even a question. There’s almost 0% chance there’s any world out there that’s remotely suitable for human life. We don’t even know if there’s any life out in the universe aside from on earth, why destroy it for no reason?
It’s a philosophical dilemma. Is it worth destroying all we have in hopes of finding something more?
No? How is that even a question. There’s almost 0% chance there’s any world out there that’s remotely suitable for human life.
We don’t even know if there’s any life out in the universe aside from on earth, why destroy it for no reason?