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+ | In this comic, White Hat and Cueball are discussing the criteria that should be adopted before humanity starts exploring other planets. White Hat suggests that we should 'solve all our problems' on Earth, which Cueball agrees to, and tries to set a timeline, proposing either ten or fifteen years. This is, however, more or less ridicolous, because 'all the problems' on Earth is pretty vague, and represents a very large, clustered set of large and small problems, often causing each other, or colliding. | ||
− | + | While the title text admits that there are a lot of them, just considering the largest ones, like famine, diseases, energy, climatic changes, and wars, it would be candid and unrealistic to think we could solve them in fifteen years, when humanity has been struggling with most of them since its appearance on Earth (and caused a series of them personally). It seems that, if we really wanted to solve all of our problems before exploring more planets, we would, in fact, never explore them. One could argue, however, that by exploring before we do, we'd be only worsening our problems by wasting resources, or leeching resources from other planets (while unrealistic at this phase) to solve our problems by causing problems elsewhere, so the reasoning isn't completely baseless, while the timeline set is unrealistic. | |
− | + | The argument between exploring space vs saving resources and solving problems on Earth is a pretty common modern one, both in theory, and in practice. | |
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]] | [[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] |