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When we're colonizing in other galaxies, you're gonna look back on this and feel like a pickle.

I’ll rue the day!

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Your like a really really really content pessimist.

Please ... Share more of your joyous desolation with us!

I actually think that’s a huge monkey off our backs. Like… everything is already perfect. You can’t outdo it. You’ll Go crazy trying. Enjoy the ride man.

I've never heard this opinion before.

Isn't the ability to grow and improve a critical element of society?

Why ever cooperate if we do not wish to improve ?

Later.

Enjoy your ride. Dude.

I don’t know, there was the wheel, and now there’s cars. Then there were cars, and soon there will be flying cars. We as humans are constantly growing and adapting, learning new things every day. I mean sure we’re not building empires or creating the next wonder of the world anytime soon, but we’ve advanced so far in terms of weapons and civilization, to prevent as much innocent casualty as possible. We’ve only just started exploring that the sky is no longer the limit, quite literally, and that’s not something even Alexander the Great was able to accomplish.

And yet all we have is an old space station destined for the ocean