For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.

  • HiT3k@beehaw.org
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    I’m a huge sci-fi nerd, and I love the idea of exploring the solar system and galaxy. However, everyone I meet who actually talks about it is also so credulous about terraforming and mining and colonizing. It’s an outrageously stupid waste of resources and mental energy and I have such little respect for these people.

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      Talking about terraforming in our day and age is like Romans talking about steam turbines. Yes they did have one toy example so the idea clearly existed but it was absolutely no good to them whatsoever. The technological leap from the Romans to us must be far smaller than the leap from us to being able to terraform a planet.

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      I love thinking about and talking about some potential future like that but yeah it’s currently in the camp of hard scifi rather than legitimate futurism.