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Codydw12 t1_j5tdkgg wrote

Reply to comment by Sugarsmacks420 in NASA, DARPA Will Test Nuclear Engine for Future Mars Missions by Gari_305

So should we stop developing any new technology for fear of its weaponization? Should we stop drilling petrol of fear it could become napalm?

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Sugarsmacks420 t1_j5tl2z5 wrote

It would take a hell of a lot of napalm to equal the destructive effect of a nuclear weapon, why one would say that comparison is ridiculous.

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Codydw12 t1_j5tqjpk wrote

That doesn't negate my point that fearing a technology because someone could weaponize it is stupid.

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Sugarsmacks420 t1_j5tr177 wrote

Depends on the technology, and its not a IF with humans, its a when, when you say could you are trying to act like humans have some sort of limit to destruction. If a technology can be used for war, it has been, that sums up humanity.

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Codydw12 t1_j5tsad7 wrote

The history of humankind is the history of warfare? Thanks for being the first person ever to point that out.

Nuclear technologies are incredibly powerful and can be dangerous, I will not deny that. But it is a tool the same as any other. Just because it can be used as a weapon does not mean other aspects can be thrown aside purely out of fear, same I believe of many up coming technologies such as AI and automation.

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Sugarsmacks420 t1_j5ttvyx wrote

Humans can not be trusted with nuclear anything in space period. On top of that the fact the government has no problem flying up some cesium which could have catastrophic consequences like Fukishima says loads about those humans to begin with.

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Codydw12 t1_j5txlpu wrote

So then what? Humanity as a whole finally unites together, something which has never been done before, all to stop technogical progression? Space infastructure will become limited to solar which is itself just a byproduct of the Sun's nuclear fussion?

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Sugarsmacks420 t1_j5w4jtt wrote

Humanity unites? Maybe after about 4 billion die off

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Codydw12 t1_j5w5c71 wrote

Oh so you're just a doomer who just believes that people just need to die.

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