Years of feeding the sci-fi fueled interstellar fantasy, Kurzgesagt eventually had to admit its practically impossible. Forgive my stupid petty gloating, but it feels good to see.

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[–] 21 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Talking about leaving the solar system when there are currently no humans beyond low earth orbit is putting the cart light years before the horse.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Is it because the solar system has head game like wowee

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You could get humanity to travel much further, if you could create artificial reproduction and send out a pod, that only activates under certain circumstances, however... the children of the pod wouldn't have any parents and there's a mountain of ethical issues that cannot be easily solved.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    I would guess this is more of a "capitalist realism" sort of thing for them, discouraging people from dreaming big and telling them that this is the "best of all possible worlds." I have nothing but contempt for their slimy "just vote away climate change and also we must decrease the surplus population" chauvinism.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago*

    Other stars are very far away but never is also a very long time. Both are finite though

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I remember learning that the entire Dyson sphere concept was made as a joke and it kinda sucked, but it also just reinforced that there is no Earth 2.0, there is no hope of finding salvation in space. We're here now and we have to fix the problems we've created in our only home in the universe. Maybe this kind of thing will make some of their audience think about it but they've also been following the channel that sells Bill Gates as the architect of our salvation and that sci-fi solutions are our best hope so I'll not hold my breath.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    What's his argument? Is it the speed of light means we won't? I watched 60 seconds and I don't want to be a performing seal who has to wait ~5 more minutes to finally get a treat.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago*

    I feel sorry for every sorry bastard that watching this wannabe intellectual bazinga slop, I haven't watched any of their garbage but the whole thing about having a video about "have all wars ended" or whatever the fuck it was without mentioning the genocide Israel is carrying out tells you enough

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 months ago

    I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

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