>it'd be better to fix the machine?

Oh thank god, someone finally suggested it. We assume you have ideas on how better to literally see through solid objects? If you'll head right this way, our R&D team would love to get started on your plan...

Omfg 😂

In Latin it's pronounced say-boom, not see-buhm like most English-speakers say it, so it's technically less disgusting if you pronounce it correctly.

Alright, fine, I booped and now I'm smiling. Happy? 😝

Um, hi, it won't. We aren't going to get to the space economy. The planet is literally dying. Vertebrate and insect populations are both in complete freefall, and global warming is going completely unchecked. Most estimates are looking at 50-100 years before we start seeing mass famine and water shortages leading to die-offs of humans in the billions.

A "space economy" is a hilarious pipedream in our current situation.

Oh, for sure. I'm just usually conservative about time frames when I'm talking about it so that people are more likely to listen. People just shut down and brush it off as conspiracy if you start throwing around dates that are only a few years away. The collapse of the crab populations in Alaska is one of the first in what will be a cascade of collapses, and it's happening now, forget even 7 years out.

The problem is that it's not uplifting to report on a government spending a ton of money on "conserving" specific species when the entire planet's ecology is collapsing around our ears. We likely have less than a century left of this planet before billions of people die due to the collapse of our food sources and water supplies. Spending $70m on trying to saves the newts isn't uplifting in the face of that knowledge, so it really shouldn't be on this sub.