Date: August 11th, 2026 8:42 PM Author: the White jensen huang
if we found a new undiscovered continent on earth, say atlantis, we wouldn't call it a "surrogate activity" to explore and colonize it. it would pretty straightforwardly be normal human behavior
Date: August 11th, 2026 8:43 PM Author: Metaphysics Is Solved
maybe if it was part of a genuine and concerted effort at colonization, but it wasn't. at best it was a "maybe we'll need this later" thing and we never got back to it
Date: August 11th, 2026 8:47 PM Author: the White jensen huang
yeah but that's more because our civilization ended. not because we failed in the follow through
compare to something like those goofy ass boomers who went down in their homemade submarine to see the titanic and got crushed. now *that's* a surrogate activity
Date: August 11th, 2026 8:37 PM Author: electric snowy office turdskin
It was a stepping stone on the path to being multiplanetary, which is the only way our species survives any of the many events that would end all human life on earth.