I agree with you in broad terms but come on, all the care in the world for the environment won't stop external threats. Ask the dinosaurs. Sure the resources can be used to mitigate those threats like NASA DART mission but it is nice to have a plan B just in case.
"Space colony" is a misnomer. Nothing of value to bring there or bring back. No indigenous population. No life at all. That's not how actual colonies work. A Mars base would be dependent on Earth very likely forever. If Earth blows up, the Martians die a few weeks or months later.
I would say that pretty much anything can happen to earth and it will be more survivable to still live on this planet than any other stellar object or orbit at least in medium term. Say couple hundreds of years.
If humanity somehow succeeds in colonizing Mars, it will be through intense political and scientific collaboration, not a moonshot spearheaded by an egomaniac with a messiah complex.
>edit: Actually, it's worth mentioning that there are other non-Western cultures using psychedelics to treat mental health issues, such as Ayahuasca ceremonies in various South American countries.
South America is non-western culture now? Lmao ok. Also, practically nobody uses Ayahuasca to treat mental health issues over here. That kinda thing is an extremely niche and small practice of usually affluent people. Ayahuasca retreats are super expensive and half of the people you see there are rich Americans looking for some anecdata to share in sites like this. Everyone else is using standard medicine and therapy.
You're right I worded that badly, but as I acknowledged in my previous comment it's an area I know little about and only mentioned it as a known example that's not the same as the rest of what I explained.
I do however believe there are various cultures that do use ayahuasca unrelated to the sort of expensive retreats Americans might travel to.
And you're right that Western / non-Western was a poor way of explaining what I meant, but I'm not sure if there's a widely accepted good phrasing for what I meant which was really "countries or communities within countries whose cultures, including in healthcare, are more significantly unlike the cultures in Western Europe & North America than the cultural differences between countries & states within NA+EU".
In hindsight I probably should have just said "I believe there are completely different styles of psychedelic use for mental health such as with Ayahuasca but I don't know enough to say more about that"!
>Life is more robust than electronic systems. The electronic systems will be destroyed for their aggression.
Compelling argument. However from the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal.
Jokes aside life may be more robust but in a very narrow set of conditions where it evolved. Look at Mars for example. No life (as far as we know) but three robots happily wandering like what do you mean this planet isn't habitable? Atmosphere? Biomass? Planetary magnetic field? Tell me more
>However from the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.
I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine!
Oh man that's so much better! It still gives me the chills. As a physicist, the frustrations of brother Cavil really hit home for me—it resonated on a whole different level.
but those robots are also robust only in a narrow set of conditions: the short frame of their operative lifetime. life can survive in extremely harsh conditions for eons. really just a different subset of the conditons space, arguably bigger.
life tends to, uh, find a way
Not specifically physics engines but graphics engines use "hidden surface determination" to avoid rendering what's outside the camera view. Frustrum culling, occlusion culling, LOD optimization, space-partition based clipping, etc. This video does an amazing job explaining some of those. https://youtu.be/C8YtdC8mxTU (highly recommended channel too)
