Red button

[matrixmann]

Who wants a red button...

...should really pay attention that it doesn't say "self-destruction" on it.

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[matrixmann]

For my understanding, how dumb the rich elites in America must be you can already see in those private space travel programs.
Adult men dreaming about discovering and talking to aliens in foreseeable time... Science knows how lonely this planet is in its wider environment that could reach out for it in an acceptable amount of time.
Definitely seen too many Hollywood movies and formed scientific belief (!) out of that. And also learned too many times that money can make anything possible - bullshit, it can't make ALL things possible. It can influence social relations, but it can't change features of materia by its mere existence.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Exactly, all this futuristic utopia that stupid techbro creepy weirdos like Musk and such are fantasizing. As if it is meant to live on Mars. What about gravity, radiation, atmosphere etc. Even little kid would know better.

[matrixmann]

Same is with such things like building a bunker to survive a nuclear war - or a war that destroys the whole world. There is no running away from it. Even food storages have their limits, water and air don't appear out of nowhere.
The radiation finds its way into the facility in any way... You can't get an object that hermetically closed that nothing from the ouside gets in.
And even if, what you gonna do to breathe inside even though?

And just if you even get that managed, you can never come to the surface again. Radiation lasts longer than a human life. Than thousands of human lives. Chemical warfare is none the harmless either. Results of that, not even to speak of biological warfare, may also last for decades.
Nobody can build a bunker like that which makes it possible to live under the surface for decades - that's totally nonsense, and these days it's even a dreamy glorification of Cold War era fantasies.

Science knows that, but... obviously, even for those TechGiants it's a matter of which science they believe in and when it suits their purposes. If it tells them "no, you gonna die miserably!", then it seems like they don't want to hear it.

Also, clearly also speaks for the school education these received.