*I’m thrilled
If humanity pushed *all* of its resources--literally everyone on the planet working on it, strip-mined the planet, and dedicated every second of human energy to the project--we would destroy *this* planet *and still not become interplanetary*.
It is easier to create a farm in Antarctica. It is easier to build a city with farms in orbit. It is easier to rebuilt society after a nuclear apocalypse. It is easier to terraform *the fucking moon* than to have a human colony on Mars that would survive a collapse of the human colony on Earth.
I really think folks should call out more strongly: we will not become interplanetary. Not "not in the next few years". Not "not in his lifetime". Just "not ever".
An Uber driver once told my dad he closed the door too hard and rattled the change he was keeping in it.
And capped things off with The Wild Robot’s box office performance this morning. www.popculturology.news/the-wild-rob...
Projects had dropped for the animated film’s opening weekend, but strong word-of-mouth and reviews propelled the masterpiece to No. 1.
Broke down the SNL Season 50 premiere on Sunday afternoon ... www.popculturology.news/the-celebrit...
With the focus on how many cameos the show could stuff in the cold open, host Jean Smart was left with little to work with.
My wife refuses to see it. “I already feel enough,” she tells me.