Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Boraxman
Date : Mon May 19 2025 08:16 am
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Bo> I can't see humanity united. In fact,I don't think there IS such a
Bo> thing as "humanity". The "one world, one people" vision is a
Bo> hellscape, an utter hellscape. I live in a city which is going for
Bo> "Diversity", and no, please, God no, I don't want that the future.
Bo> It's awful and inhuman.
pF> Outside of an alien invasion, I agree that we're not going to see
pF> unity.
pF> I read an interesting SF book series by Christopher Nuttall starting
pF> with the book Ark Royal. It's an interesting look at a spacefaring
pF> future where separate political powers explore and colonize space
pF> without having unified into a single political entity. They end up
pF> fighting an alien race, but don't have the idealistic "one world" trope
pF> most science fiction has.
To be honest, I think this is more likely. China has a space program. India
has a space program. Elon has a space program. USA has a space program.
We thought it would take one massive world government, but what we see now is
SpaceX and Blue Origin. Space travel could very well just end up being
competing private companies. There might be frameworks and treaties on how to
divide the spoils, but no singular entity controlling it, unless a monopoly
emerges.
An alien invasion seems exceedingly unlikely anyway. We're far, far more
likely
to do ourselves in through some environmental catastrophe, than have it imposed
by Martians, and look at how our environmentmal problems have united the
world... *cough*
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