Or in the words of Stephen Jay Gould,
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
It’s also a good distraction, doubt they actually think people will live on the moon or Mars
Someone else pointed out that you could set off every number that has ever existed and the earth would still be more hospitable than mars
To repeat myself a little, it’s all a distraction from making things better here, like the bezoes quote about getting 10,000 Einsteins in the first by expanding in the solar system, and it’s like dude, you might have 100 Einsteins pissing in bottles in your warehouse right now but they can’t afford school or groceries or rent
Soggy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 weeks ago
getting 10,000 Einsteins in the future by expanding in the solar system
This is incredibly random but I’ve been wondering lately what might happen if we colonized a place where comparatively speaking time moves much faster than on Earth.
In theory you could bring back years of advancement in a shorter timespan, but this is obviously just a pipe dream.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Interstellar is just a movie, mate. There is no such planet, time passes at the same rate everywhere - ie the caesium standard.
Time dilation is a thing, but as far as I’m aware it’s not possible to travel someplace, pass any greater amount of time, and then return as though less time had passed - that’s time travel. It’s theoretically impossible, at least with current technology and understanding of relativity. Great movie though.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 weeks ago
I didn’t get the idea from the movie, I’m talking about how time passes differently depending on the pull of gravity; and that’s why I kind of alluded to this being theoretical at best. I don’t actually think it’s feasible to find an enormous planet just to have time pass more quickly.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep, and as I said, the return trip with all the rapidly evolved super-geniuses would be the impossible part of the plan.
You can’t travel someplace else - experience say 100 years, and then travel back to your place of departure and have had only 20 years passed. That’s fundamentally impossible.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Moon and Mars are not a distraction. It’s been a Nasa goal for a long time to go to Mars. Politics has stopped us from doing it for a very long time. We’re lucky we got to put probes around it and rovers on the ground.
half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s a difference between musk and bezo talking about Mars, the moon and space, and nasa talking about it.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Moon days are 250F, but it’s a dry heat.
MisterD@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The rich don’t need to live there. The just need to get there ASAP. If they can’t live… oh well.
doughless@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I read that as getting 10,000 Epsteins by expanding in the solar system …