Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "The Best Earth-like Exoplanet Has 4 Major Problems" video.

  1.  @DataC0llect0r  natives across the Americas actually just thought Europeans were just somewhat different people, who have bigger boats and too obsessed with gold.
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  2. Parasitic life forms evolve to parasitise on certain species of hosts, so why would an absolutely alien life, which is probably even biochmically different, be dangerous to us? I am a microbiologist, and I find it rather unlikely. Also, the fact that you immediately associate viruses and bacteria with danger, even though even here on Earth 99.9% of them aren't dangerous to us humans (in fact many of them are necessary for our survival), tells a lot about society's germophobia and one-sided ways we are taught about microbial life
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  3. That is all based on questionable assumptions: that technology will always continue to develop endlessly and can solve any problem you may imagine sooner or later, and that the space colonisation is even ever practically feasible. I don't blame you, those are usual delusions in most people since industrial revolution. If you think more however, those are just assumptions, rooted in blind extrapolation of previous trends into the future. Also, how are generational space ships ethical? Is it ethical to condemn whole generations to life on a ship? That confirms my suspicion that any culture that views expansionism as its goal has to be inherently unethical at its core. Normal culture should seek sustainability and balance with its own environment, and use the resources it already has efficiently, not endless expansion. Again, it is all based on extrapolating the ideal that Western civilisation formed during times of colonialism and imperialism, directing them somewhere else and saying "well, now it is actually not that bad, cause we won't probably meet aliens to displace or enslave" ignoring that the real core problem of expansionist mentality is not simply how it treats indigenous people, but a much deeper one
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  4. I also find it pretty wild that some people engage in fantasies of humans colonising those planets easy-peasy, and don't think about how for us, Earth's life form even biosphere with 1% different parameters could be instantly deadly even if all other things are the same (depends on which parameters are actually different, but yeah)
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  5.  @john-thejohn-johnson4403  and what is the point of humans colonising anything? I don't see anything good about it either
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  6. nope. And we don't need to. Any culture which views expansionist tales as its ideal future, is messed up at its core
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  7.  @Boykot1  Nature does most things better in the long run than "civilisations". people tend to underestimate nature and overestimate civilisations. Thanks sci-fi, I guess, it messed up our perception of reality in many ways. The more I learn the more I find civilisations are inherently destined to be more destructive forces, than constructive ones. After all, it is one species taking as much as possible for itself (in an attempt to decrease their own suffering and death and increase comfort, so it is not really a choice, who would choose to suffer?), depriving millions of other species, thus decreasing biodiversity, abundance, genetic diversity and as a result, destabilising the whole of biosphere
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