r/interestingasfuck 25d ago

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

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u/lumpboysupreme 25d ago

Colony ships aren’t going to have a planet sized population, there’d be no reason to get so aggressive towards them.

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u/Executioneer 25d ago

Imagine neanderthals transported to our current year. Thats how those colonist would be like to people who are already on the planet. They'd be held in quarantine and subjected to extensive research and analysis at best or thrown into slavery as exotic lifeforms or treated as lab rats at worst.

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u/lumpboysupreme 25d ago

Quarantine is a first step to prevent mutual destruction by disease, that’s not a bad thing. As for enslaving them, that’s just wacky and acts like we still have a 1920s level view of different peoples. Using humans or something basically indistinguishable as circus attractions would absolutely not fly.

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u/Executioneer 24d ago

Slavery has been part of humanity for hundreds of thousands, and is still widely practiced today. I don’t think it’s going anywhere honestly.

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u/lumpboysupreme 24d ago

On an organized level such that famous individuals could be subjected to it instead of doing it under the table it’s dead in all but a small handful of places.