Comment on Pretty interesting when you really think about it.

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• Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Agreed he can be pompous but I think since he’s an astronomer he is making the point that if you were in space and looked at earth you would wonder why are there borders

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  • teletext@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You know continents and rivers exist?

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    • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Your point is?

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      • Iapar@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Earth is beautiful!

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• ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What about this tweet reads as pompous to you?

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  • DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “If everyone was as wise as me, I wouldn’t suffer this tiresome charade”

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    • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well, he’s ridiculing the fact that everything we have setup for governance is, in fact, made up. I don’t see why that’s pompous. I know his tweets tend to be a bit too pedantic for certain topics, but that is his persona. He is one of the few peopeople responsible for this generation finding science cool. He’s allowed that much.

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      • DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s sophomoric.

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    • TheTetrapod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you close your eyes and imagine a future Star Trek utopia, are you still imagining borders? It’s a pretty standard opinion that borders are an outcropping of our worse natures and should eventually be left behind.

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      • Darrell_Winfield@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Borders are absolutely in the star Trek utopia. Everything has borders. What we do about those borders is the difference.

        Each quadrant, solar system, etc has borders. These are even more arbitrary as the current state, county, and country borders across our world tend to follow natural terrain or longitude and latitude. None of these exist in space. But the quadrant borders are as easy to cross as for me to drive to my next US state. However, the Kardassian border is not so easy to cross, just like it’s not so easy for me to cross into North Korea.

        Borders are not the inherent issue here. Conflict is the inherent issue, and borders are how we try to minimize that conflict.

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  To judge others so, you must be the personification of kindness and benevolence. Surely?

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