The Glade 4.0

according to "the urban scientist"

Because really the issue isn't figuring out how to even get to other planets, it's whether the people that die horribly when we **** it up include enough minorities and women.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

where do I apply to get back the IQ points I lost reading that article. I literally feel stupider after reading it.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Neil deGrasse Tyson needs to slap this *****.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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The idea here is that social justice is supposed to come before scientific and technological advancement. Advancement of the species ultimately means culling those who don't keep up. This is a very upsetting idea if you're one of the ones that's going to be culled.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

While she's clearly a nutjob, we should absolutely consider the social aspects of sending a colony to mars.

For example, if you take our best and brightest, and discover that they are all white males over the age of 50, I would argue that's the makings of a disastrous (or at least short-lived) colony.

A colony should reflect the diversity necessary in a successful social community. Leaders, workers, variable ages, men/women, etc.

Now, how necessary it is for the initial foray to be representative of a long-term viable community is up for debate - they could just be there to prepare for such a community.

Lastly, does ethnicity matter? Maybe - depending on our thoughts for a long term societal structure. As with all things, we should start at the end goal, and work backward. How do we get there?

It's certainly an appropriate debate to have.

I don't think there's any actual debate over "will hypothetical colonists want to **** and have babies, and is it a good idea to provide for that if we want there to be any point at all in having a colony?"

Because, you know, a diverse community of males of many races and ages is not likely to be a big improvement over "white males over 50" in the longevity department.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Doesn't matter. In a single generation everyone would be a native Martian.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I'm sorry, I'm pretty sure you'd want to say "Terran-Martian".

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Win.

I was hoping someone would step up to spike that set.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Don't forget that Newton's Principia is a rapist handbook.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn