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Humans will never go past Mars (ghostofcarnot.substack.com)
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Space is really spread out, and we will forever lack the means to get around it fast. Space also happens to be highly inhospitable to human life. For these reasons, I submit that no human will ever go farther than Mars.

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[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

As far as war, as we make it unprofitable that should help

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 2 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

Could we make a global treaty that says wars are illegal? If you start a war, the rest of the world will boycott you for 100 years.

[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Treaties and boycotts are uses of power. But power corrupts due to the survival of the selfish. Break the wheel!

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

That is true. Well, I’m out of options. As long as humans are greedy and arrogant, there’s no clean way to solve this problem. All of my ideas involve using power one way or another.

[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

What if there was a technology that publishes the face of any murderer? (including soldiers) and bans them from my social network

Or a technology that allows a refugee to trade in everything they own and set up elsewhere without their livelihood being stolen?

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