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hoorayimhelping on Sept 27, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]

I was so inspired by Elon saying "people have this expectation that technology just continues to improve on it's own," before going on to talk about ancient civilizations reaching peak technology and backsliding hard.

worldsayshi on Sept 29, 2016 | [–]

Where is this from? I'd really like to see this part. It's an idea that bugs me too.

It's like "well the others are going to cure cancer, fix the internet, make it so that machines can talk with us and make gold fall out of the sky".

chrismarlow9 on Sept 28, 2016 | [–]

if you dont try, you already failed

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