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Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]

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t4nkd wrote: post #370
mikeash wrote: post #339

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My dictionary defines "critique" as "a detailed analysis and assessment of something." That is not what I'm seeing here, nor is it what I'm arguing against. I have no problem with people arguing against SpaceX's Mars plans, either on the basis that the plan is infeasible, or that he should be doing something else. I have a huge problem with people arguing against it on the basis that the commenter doesn't like it and…

Juxtapose this desire against the fact this is in reply to a user named "goatlover" and it's hard not to laugh.

What, do you have something against goats?!

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Post by savagej »

ravenstine wrote: post #390
savagej wrote: post #335

troll

What makes you think I'm trolling? I like the idea of space travel as much as the next person; I just remain unconvinced that colonizing Mars or even deep space really solves any existential problems for humanity beyond... providing more space. There's nothing radical about not believing that space travel is an answer to anything in and of itself. Apparently there's something deeply wrong for not agreeing with Elon M…

No one cares what you think about space travel or world priorities. That's why you are a troll.

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Post by mikeash »

ythl wrote: post #411
weatherlight wrote: post #398

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Seriously, this 1000x. if we are going to survive the next millennia, we need to get off this rock.

I still think it's many, many orders of magnitude easier to survive on a messed up earth than on a fresh Mars or Venus.

Depends on how messed up it is. Earth ravaged by global warming and pollution? Yeah, still a lot easier than Mars. Earth ravaged by a strike from a gigantic asteroid that sterilizes the crust to a depth of three meters? Mars is probably easier.

The chances of the second one are pretty low, but some people think that any chance is too high.

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Post by josu »

grecy wrote: post #237
mikeash wrote: post #148

Some of the comments here make me think of crabs in a pot pulling down the ones who try to climb out. Nobody's making you participate in this venture. If you don't like it, then you're free to go do whatever it is you do like. You might think Musk could better direct his efforts and resources elsewhere, but most other billionaires don't do anything all that interesting, they just invest their money in mundane stuff,…

> Nobody's making you participate in this venture. If you don't like it, then you're free to go do whatever it is you do like. I can't agree more. I've seen HN degrade into that kind of discussion over the last 2 years and it really disappoints me. Part of me wishes HN had a really strong moderator that slapped down nay-sayers. If you're not contributing something valuable, comment deleted.

I don't think this is a recent trend, look at the presentation post of Dropbox[1] from 9 years ago. On the one hand, YC is a relatively contrarian community. On the other hand, if you agree with something you may not have much to add, but if you disagree you'll probably want to express why.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

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Post by hoorayimhelping »

wmccullough wrote: post #285
elliotec wrote: post #252

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Don't stop contributing if you're one of the good ones!

I want to, but it got to the point where the hivemind has pushed me away. I have noticed recently that HN is becoming self-aware. More than ever, I'm seeing comments by good users telling the bad ones to take their bad attitude elsewhere. The contrarianism going on really drove me away. I started to believe that there were people feeling the need to be contrarian just to appear more intelligent than the other users.

>More than ever, I'm seeing comments by good users telling the bad ones to take their bad attitude elsewhere.

That's been happening since I've been here, since around mid 2007. Not to dismiss what you're saying, I just want to say that there have always been people fighting the good fight.

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Post by erikpukinskis »

dsabanin wrote: post #41

What are we going to do on Mars? Live in a plastic box? Send in a bunch of slaves to mine minerals in insufferable conditions? I don't get it.

VR work+play in a Musky geopolitical climate, with a Martian exploration theme park for weekend excursions.

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Post by BurningFrog »

BurningFrog wrote: post #117
mattmanser wrote: post #14

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Google "1:30pm CST". It shows it in your local time.

Has anyone written a Chrome plugin that does this yet?

This seems close to what I want: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/local-time-automat...
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