Archmage Azor@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-21 year 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-square62fedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up135arrow-down1message-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-21 year agomessage-square62fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarebetwixthewires@lemmy.basedcount.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoNo way. Earth is the homeland, it’s the botanical gardens, the tribal reservation, it comes first. Now, if you could do it on, say, mars, absolutely.
minus-squareanolemmi@lemmi.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoYea, FTL travel implies that we have somewhere else to go. Now while I assume there are plenty of other habitable planets out there, strictly speaking we don’t know that.
No way.
Earth is the homeland, it’s the botanical gardens, the tribal reservation, it comes first.
Now, if you could do it on, say, mars, absolutely.
Yea, FTL travel implies that we have somewhere else to go.
Now while I assume there are plenty of other habitable planets out there, strictly speaking we don’t know that.