1022 sats \ 3 replies \ @benthecarman 23 Jan \ on: What possible future (technological) breakthrough might be a grave mistake? science
Anything that threatens all of humanity. Best example is nukes but the genie is out of the bottle there.
Something that has been hypothesized is bring very large asteroids into earths orbit so we can more easily mine it, this could be super dangerous, if we get one calculation wrong, we get dinosaurs 2.0
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs OP 23 Jan
Oh boy, that would be a Dance with the Devil for sure, sadly enough I think humans really are greedy enough to risk it.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 24 Jan
if we get one calculation wrong
in that case, maybe humanity will have a gravestone in some alien backyard on which is written
extinction caused by metric vs imperial system
in that case, we would deserve dinosaurs 2.0 lol
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs OP 24 Jan
🤣🤣
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