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        11 months ago

        In a post scarcity society capable of folding dimensions for space travel, or can survive for thousands of years in regular space flight, yeah absolutely, do you watch cells divide for entertainment?

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            11 months ago

            They do it for pay so they don’t starve. We are very much not in a post scarcity society.

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              11 months ago

              You have such a void of interest and wonder that Im beginning to think you are the aliens we are talking about.

              You think scientists study for pay? We find ways to get paid so we dont starve from the studying. The study is the point, it always has been

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          11 months ago

          Yes, 100% every time, yes, for the same reason people crouch and watch in fascination as the ants and the springtails go about their unfathomable business.

          How do you not have this curiosity of the endless wonder beneath your feet

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            11 months ago

            It died when I realized I was born into the species that kills all the other species.

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              11 months ago

              Thats just more reasons to be studying those species before they die out so we can properly prevent the dying.

              Thats, like, 40% of my job

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                11 months ago

                We are still competing when we should have been cooperating 50 years ago as a global society. There is no preventing the coming catastrophe Imo.

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                  11 months ago

                  Oh, well in that case youre flat faced wrong. We can absolutely avert a large amount of the damage coming, easy.

                  It will require a lot of legislation to reign in corporation pollution and ecological destruction, but we arent even close to the event horizon. Quit reading doom and gloom fluff pieces.