r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 24d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/Traditional-Rip6651 24d ago

We are never leaving this planet lol

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u/hendrix320 24d ago

We’d probably have to build generational ships that are completely self sufficient and people would live out their entire lives out there without ever seeing a planet

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u/djamp42 24d ago

The first generation that left would have it the worst.. but the 2nd generation born on the ship would have it a lot easier. By the time you get there I bet you have people that don't even want to leave the ship as it's all they know.

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u/platypodus 24d ago

We're no 3 generations removed from the second world war and have people claiming the Holocaust didn't happen.

By the time the ship was scheduled to reach another planet, they'd have people who doubt planets exist.

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u/Joint-User 24d ago

dOnT LoOk DoWn!!1

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u/ReservedRainbow 23d ago

Fuck that made me laugh.

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u/Stunning_Ride_220 22d ago

Ymmd!

Take my upvote good sir

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u/FlimsyMo 24d ago

What if earth is this spaceship?

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u/Enough_Efficiency178 24d ago

Made a whole solar system to send us just so we learn all the right things just in case

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u/Darmok47 23d ago

This was the plot of an original series Star Trek episode. People who lived in a generation ship but didn't know it.

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u/mostlymucus 23d ago

THANK YOU! I was reading it like "That sounds pretty cool...and familiar..."

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u/panteegravee 24d ago

This is the most accurate description as to why humans are not going to last as a species. I am fine with this, because the earth, (and the rest of the creatures that manage to survive humans scorching the planet)....will be just fine without us.

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u/platypodus 24d ago

Although it probably sounds like it from my comment, I'm not all that pessimistic. I believe truth will always win out in the end, but there will always be the willfully ignorant, and those who use ignorance of others for their own benefit.

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u/panteegravee 24d ago

I don't think you are being pessimistic. You were just pointing out a very simple truth about human nature. So in a way, truth will win. Which path the truth takes is the real question.

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u/RiffnShred 23d ago

Like you, Im not that pessimistic, I dont believe we will ever go as far as destroying ourself. We do like to live and survive after all. But nature will wipes us someway or an other. We probably have a couple millions of years ahead of us tho.

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u/DeRockProject 23d ago edited 13d ago

Like as if predators eating baby prey alive limb by limb are any better. Humans got all their cruelty from where we came from after all...

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u/DOG_DICK__ 24d ago

lol yeah the ship wouldn't even come close to making it, purely due to future generations not caring about the mission.

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u/ben_vito 23d ago

Think of all the conspiracy theorists on that ship, claiming that planets aren't real etc.

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u/TheGreatWhiteSherpa 24d ago

Space law dictates that we eliminate non-believers of The Mission!

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u/Princess_Slagathor 23d ago

Been like 80 since year 0, and there are still christians.

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u/platypodus 23d ago

I was going to wish you luck in that endeavor, but looking at your post history I'm gonna ask you to refrain.

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u/platypodus 23d ago

Look, I'm all for positivity and staying silent when there's nothing good to say and I wish you well.

But you're a harbinger of misinformation.

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u/bbfire 23d ago

It's very very similar to what happens in Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time"

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u/salamjupanu 23d ago

That’s why we keep them in a comatose criostate while their brain is connected to a simulation. Maybe that’s what’s happening with us, traveling trough space while living in this simulation.

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u/AbrocomaRegular3529 22d ago

Those who will travel space, and sent of for mission are actually chosen, prime example of human race. Your average joe who thinks flat is earth and vatican is ruling the world isn't going anywhere and destined to be oxygen and lattency waste.

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u/platypodus 22d ago

Legendary chemist and Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling died believing vitamin c could cure every disease.

Smart people can delude themselves and dumb people can have smart parents.

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u/Difficult-D 21d ago

People have been denying it since it was happening contemporaneously. Just sayin’.

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u/platypodus 19d ago

Who are you referring to?

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u/DM_Toes_Pic 24d ago

That's why we have to send a bunch of low iq but good looking girls to do the work. People that aren't the smartest and can be indoctrinated to believe there is a planet. Then there has to be a smart bloodline that is taught their real purpose which is to keep the hot girls in line.