A vague answer for a vague question, yes.
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Yes, however we should wait about 500,000,000 years, cause the earth will be rendered uninhabitable by the sun around that time anyway.
Such a weird question, FTL would theoretically be a savior to the human race, but in what scenario would it be necessary to destroy the earth to make it work. Why couldn't you sacrifice Venus, or Neptune, or just fly for a decade or two out of the solar system before turning it on?
It's a philosophical dilemma. Is it worth destroying all we have in hopes of finding something more?
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no lol, no amount of physics breaking scifi bs appealing to sfba nerds with too much vc money to care about external reality is worth pursuing
if this sounds weirdly specific, it's because it is. context: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/before-its-too-late-buddy/
Depends what you mean by "destroy"
If you mean "make it uninhabitable for humans" ya sure, absolutely. It would mean we finally get off this rock and can leave it be. Earth will be fine without us and will soon enough (on the scale of time periods) return to business as usual.
Humans can move on like the parasites we are to new hosts, to extract and refuel and consume.
Starcraft tried to imply it was humans vs the zerg but we all have to accept the simple fact of the matter... we ARE the zerg
Sounds win win to me
If we can build facilities to research it off-world, itβs likely to be a good idea. Though it may have to be left on the back burner for a while.
How would we know it will destroy the Earth without doing the research? Also, will more research allow us to not destroy the Earth?
A better question is why would we need FTL? I mean we're destroying the planet now for no other reason than greed.
Easy access to a lot more planets.
why would you need that in the first place
Because the current one is going to shit.
Yeah and if humans had FTL travel we'd just destroy another planet.
Ok, where is the problem with that? "Destorying" the planet really only is a problem for us because we only have the one. With FTL travel, we'd have billions. We could literally just blow some up for fun.
which would only benefit the top maybe 100 people that can afford it, draining unimaginable amounts of energy and setting everyone else in even shittier situation. yay what a great idea
and even the bozos that escaped would be only fine until they have to work for their own survival
That's a lot of pessimism
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Extinction prevention
you're confusing some badly written scifi for how it's made episode