• mvirts@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Aaaaagriculture

    And balls of steel

    But really it’s agriculture that enables us to have time and space to create things like society and technology. A society with rule of law and intellectual property allows for a lucky few to spend most of their time understanding how to make nature work for us, leading to industrialization and the crazy growth we’re able to experience in a human lifetime.

    I would say we are still in the very beginning stages of planetary exploration. Once someone is making a profit in space without military or scientific money, the fun will really begin.

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      9 months ago

      Laziness.

      “Alright fellas, time to start walking to the next camp. They dont call us nomads for nothing.”

      Paleolithic me: “Alright hear me out. What if, and I know this is gonna sound crazy, what if we just stay here. Forever?”

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      Space travel will never be profitable because it’s so expensive. We have plenty of minerals here on earth. The only benefit of asteroid mining is using it to build spaceships already in orbit.

      If we have enough resources to actually explore other planets, we’ll probably be post-scarcity. There’s not going to be any profitable reason to go to space. It’ll just be to have the experience. There’s nothing special in space, it’s just rocks with no air.

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      Ya, we’ve known for decades that cavemen cavepeople were so malnourished by today’s standards that their brains simply didn’t have the nutrients to grow smart, despite being genetically the same us contemporary 200kg scholarly gentlemen.

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      9 months ago

      Agriculture is the moment we were no longer animals and no longer part of the food chain