Toon Lucario

“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

"Cave Johnson here! Don't be alarmed, but the inter dimensional world destroying entity we've been studying has apparently undergone mitosis. Unfortunately, the darned little thing escaped. So if you see a smaller, cuter version of the Ultimate Lifeform running around, just tell somebody and we'll send a team to take care of it.

"Cave Johnson here! Don't be alarmed, but the inter dimensional world destroying entity we've been studying has apparently undergone mitosis. Unfortunately, the darned little thing escaped. So if you see a smaller, cuter version of the Ultimate Lifeform running around, just tell somebody and we'll send a team to take care of it.

shoutout to flags that look like landscapes fr gotta be one of my favorite genders

Not to forget:

You joke, but this is actually their long-term plan

I really, really cannot make it more clear that the LLM bubble is the result of a bunch of techno-cultists that took Roko's Bassilisk way too seriously and think they are building a machine god that will fix the entire world with eternal rewards for the techbros that built it and "I have no mouth but I must scream" style punishments for their rivals and opposition.

How the media depicts the Apollo 11 mission:

Lucario’s aura sensors/ appendages blowing in the wind 💨

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