Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forumA Vision of the Potential of a Science Based Reality and Future Outlook...or...
...This short film makes a convincing, beautiful case for moving to Mars
http://www.vox.com/2014/12/1/7315967/wanderers-space-video
Saw this and had to share.
Enjoy,
NG
that one shot, at the very end, when a woman is looking up through a bulky helmet, as if with trepidation, then she obviously breaks into a smile, but you can't see her mouth, only her crinkling eyes....made me lumpy.
what a sap I can be.
so easily manipulated.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)so we can't really make it worse.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts).... but I seriously don't feel "invited" out there.
We aren't welcome.
Hell, we can't live on 2/3s of our own planet!
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Let's go fuck up Mars!
NeoGreen
(4,030 posts)...can't you share a little of the Awe?
Your ruining my vibe man...
While I fully admit that, historically, humans haven't been the best at "treading lightly" but, in rebuttal, I'd like to quote a character from Monty Python's Holy Grail:
"I'm getting better..."
Plus I thought the Herman Melville quote was inspirational:
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
And again, I will grant that the usage of "barbarous" carries a lot of baggage, but come on guys....
you are ruining my vibe....
Don't be bummed out.
I wasn't really referring to technology or anything like that...but mere physics. Physics keeps us in place. We're adapted for here and that's why I don't think we're...symbolically.... welcome. Actually, nature doesn't care: she's indifferent.
But the fantasy is awesome bro!