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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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80+% of earth's surface is still completely uninhabited by humans.
I'm talking about the sea floor, Antarctica, most of Australia, most of Siberia, the high mountain ranges, and the Sahara.
It would be so much easier to build colonies there than on Mars.
Even if our worst predictions about climate change come true, hell even if warming was twice as bad, they would still be much more hospitable to human life than Mars.
We haven't colonized those places, because it simply isn't worth the effort.
So why would it be worth the much, much bigger effort to settle on Mars?
People desperate to live on their own terms may think it's very much worth the effort. The pilgrims, buckle-headed weirdoes they were, probably thought as much when they boarded the Mayflower.
Risk aversion alone makes it worth having 2 plants colonized. Putting all your eggs in one planet basket is poor long term risk management. But that's more thinking in the hundreds of thousands and millions of years before that becomes relevant.
But I want the Expanse timeline 🥺
(minus the blue goo, fuck that shit)
Dropping an asteroid on the planet was a bit rude, too.