Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell" channel.

  1. Huh sounds like here in Russia 😆
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  2.  @misscute580  there is no proof that god exists. Humans are a species of animal kingdom. People have a right to decide to have sex without reproducing, and it is none of your business
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  3. More like: moon landing, Mars colony, Ah fck it, lets go back!
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  4. Good point. Who will agree to live on Mars if noone wants to live in Antarctica? And Antarctica is a tropical paradise compared to Mars
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  5. Compassion is also very natural human feeling. Neurobiological studies show that first impulse is to help others in need, and brain should put extra energy to stop its owner from helping
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  6.  @snowywintre  humans are very big compared to most species of animals. 95% of animals are arthropoda, which are all much smaller than us, add other small animals, and humans will be in the top 1% of species of animals by body size
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  7. Authoritarianism is bad and leads to corruption. In Russia and Belarus economy stagnated for a decade or more because of authoritarian regimes
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  8. Or spend money on correcting Earth environment, which we fcked up
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  9. I don't like this new future... I am a biologist, but I am not excited at all. There are so many ways how these technologies can be misused, and there will be people who will try to do that. You can make laws against that misuse, but how can you be sure that there will be noone powerful enough to still do that no matter what? Anyway, I hope I will not live long enough to see that "brave new world"
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  10. In reality it hardly is. Getting away from problems is not solving them. And most of people here are pretty naive. Space is enormous, and mostly empty, the concentration of any resources there is not that huge, like concentration of atoms of gold in the Pacific Ocean. Even getting to an asteroid and transporting stuff back, or getting it close to us would cost more than its resources. Before some unexpected breakthrough in tech, we can't expect it to be viable. Plus we don't have mineral resource shortage on Earth, we throw away many of resources, because we use things for a short period of time, and then they turn into trash (planned obsolescence) and because we don't yet recycle most of our trash. Our resources are in our landfills! You don't need to go far away! And most valuable resources are biological anyway, the ones which exist only on Earth, and are very unlikely to exist anywhere else in the Solar system in a big amount anytime soon. Don't be delusional about space people, that makes you look like easily impressionable kindergarten kids rather than thinking adults
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  11. There are bacteria that destroy plastics, but they do it much slower than we create plastic and pollute... so we need more recycling. Maybe we can use genetic engineering to create bacteria which are more efficient at destroying plastic
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  12. Well if altruism was not useful for individuals' survival and reproduction, it would not even evolve as a psychological trait. So it is pretty obvious it is useful
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