• paddirn@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Can’t wait til we can start watching interplanetary wars play out in real time.

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      11 months ago

      Can we have space settlement without the war and genocide? It’s not like killing Indians and robbing trains is a fundamental requirement.

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        11 months ago

        That depends on if space is colonized by homo sapiens, or by an evolved form of ants, who rise up millions of years after humans have gone extinct.

        The civilization that evolved from ants possibly could.

        Humans? Doubtful.

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          11 months ago

          You are giving ants way too much credit. Those fuckers are brutal war criminals, the lot of them. Humans are bad, but we’ve had nukes for almost 80 years without glassing ourselves, ants wouldn’t last a day

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            11 months ago

            No, because I’m assuming that one colony will wipe out the rest and earth will be ruled by the hereditary line of matriarchs of whatever the queen ant evolves into.

            They’ll probably enslave and brutalize all other species on the planet, but they’ll rule earth as a single unified colony, and space as an extension of that.