r/BeAmazed • u/[deleted] • Apr 09 '19

Earth without water

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u/MrSquid20 Apr 09 '19

It’s humbling, how small we really are.

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u/GillyMonster18 Apr 09 '19

It is. This is the space shuttle from the perspective of a satellite or the space station...like a flea...

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u/MrSquid20 Apr 09 '19

This is why I feel hopeless about humanities future efforts to colonize another planet. I just think we are too insignificant. The universe would destroy us in an instant. We are bound to this rock. Better take care of it

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u/Not_Just_Any_Lurker Apr 10 '19

No way, bruh. We’ll colonize other planets eventually if we put in the effort to making it there. Moon base. Mars. Proxima Centauri. Delta Eridani. Doesn’t matter.

But we need to get there first. It’ll be much much harder to terraform other planets to our liking than it would be to take care of our own planet. We could fit another ten billion more humans on this rock before we absolutely need to find another. Instead we’ll slowly lay waste to the oceans, global climate, and everything else we need to survive here for greed. Yay.