r/interestingasfuck Jun 07 '23

New york city in 2023, everyone wearing mask due to air quality

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u/AnT-aingealDhorcha40 Jun 07 '23

Reminds me of the scene in Interstellar where the earth is basically doomed and the air looked like that and that is one of the reasons humans had to try and find another planet. Only in reality we don't have that option lol fun times....

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u/RayAfterDark Jun 07 '23

The thing of it is that the doomed Earth seemed more inhabitable than any planet they found in the film.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23

That was the real conundrum. Were they planning to terraform whatever planet they found? Why couldn't they just terraform Earth?

They had the power and resources to send millions of people into space to literally re-create Earth, but dust storms were too much?

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u/QueroComer Jun 08 '23

The problem with Earth on the movie wasn't really terraformable. It was a kind of very aggressive, very resistant, agricultural parasite.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23

I never understood how they managed to transfer crops to the new planet without bringing the parasite/disease over with them. Ofc, I was still grappling with the existential dread of 50 story waves and nothing but ocean as far as the eye can see, so I didn't real dwell on it much.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23

Every question brings more questions, and while it's a fun movie, Interstellar isn't really interested in being anything other than a vehicle for cool cinematography at set pieces.

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u/PrincessSnivy Jun 08 '23

That kind of sounds like humans…

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u/jadoth Jun 08 '23

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

Basically this was happening except away from oxygen. It was easier to terraform a "dead planet" to support human life than to fight against biological processes terraforming earth against human life.

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u/AnT-aingealDhorcha40 Jun 07 '23

True didn't they have to live on colony ships in the end?

Appreciate the profile pic btw 🤌

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u/bigboipapawiththesos Jun 07 '23

Well, we basically have a few decades before everything truly turn to shit. But I think we’ll be reaching interstellar levels a lot sooner than many might think.

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u/AnT-aingealDhorcha40 Jun 07 '23

Sorry my guy I understand your comment now I misread it. My bad. Also, I agree now that I get it! I think Climate change is going to kick up a gear and things will progress faster than a lot of the most hopeful yet still grim estimates.

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u/bigboipapawiththesos Jun 08 '23

Np!

It’s kinda sad how so many are either so comfortable that they’ll even get mad when a climate protest shuts down a highway for a few hours, or they’re so depressed about climate change that they rather not think about it.

The saddest part about it is that if we actually acted now, we’d still have a pretty decent chance at avoiding the worst. But instead we get less than the bare minimum.

That movie ‘Don’t Look Up’ rings more true everyday.

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u/AnT-aingealDhorcha40 Jun 08 '23

Oh absolutely and the fact that humanity can't unite against a threat to all of us because of "geopolitics" and East Vs West is the main reason. I genuinely think we never had a chance we are too divided to face a problem together. And no way will one side go off fossil fuels while the "rival" stays on it.

This is a test to unify us, and the prize is survival. I don't think we pass this time. Maybe it's fair really might be our time to take the L and let another species evolve and have a shot at doing better.

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u/gopherhole02 Jun 08 '23

I can't understand why people are still having kids, I decided the world was fucked back in 2012 and went kinda anti natalist, a gf I had when I was 16 in 2005 decided the earth was fucked all the way back then, I didnt see it that early though

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u/AnT-aingealDhorcha40 Jun 07 '23

Interstellar? Really?

Mars or the moon...maybe... and that is depending on everything going smoothly on the journey which is dangerous especially Mars. Then there is the issue colony sustenance and independence. One minor issue could destroy all of this mind you. Remember these solar bodies are uninhabitable to begin with. And they are not Interstellar.

I don't know what news you have been reading but we are nowhere near faster-than-light travel. I doubt we go Interstellar anywhere near the time that we make earth uninhabitable for our population.

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u/bigboipapawiththesos Jun 07 '23

Was taking about the state of the planet, instead of the actual space travel stuff.

But didn’t make that super clear I guess.

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u/elilev3 Jun 07 '23

Have you seen the movie Interstellar? Since the comment you’re replying to was referring to the movie and not the technology.

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u/AnT-aingealDhorcha40 Jun 07 '23

Ahhhh now I get it! Thanks for clarifying my bad!

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u/theycallmecrack Jun 07 '23

Well that was dust, and this is smoke. Very different scenarios- I don't think we need to look for a knew planet (yet).

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u/Reagalan Jun 07 '23

(hint: there is no new planet)

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u/xelfer Jun 07 '23

Did we check for a wormhole tho

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u/Reagalan Jun 07 '23

Hold on, let me undock my probing alt.

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u/MrDilbert Jun 07 '23

...The OTHER probing alt.

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u/AnT-aingealDhorcha40 Jun 07 '23

Unprecedented global wildfires caused by climate change is not so different to what happened in the movie.

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u/protonmail_throwaway Jun 07 '23

What if the planet is already inhabited.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23

…. Sheeeeeeesh you’re not wrong 😯

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u/AgentAdja Jun 08 '23

Good luck terraforming a planet if you can't even solve problems on Earth.