“It had always bothered him to see waste; to see Gas Giant atmospheres not mined for their wealth in hydrogen; to see energy from stars spill into the void, without a Dyson Sphere to catch and use it; to see iron and copper and silicates scattered in a hundred million pebbles and asteroids, instead of a smelter or nanoassembly vat.”
– The Golden Age, by John C. Wright, page 261.
Seriously though, its where we belong.
Well it’s certainly where we have to go in large numbers.
That the Sun will go out, is a certainty
and if we’re still here – bickering
when it happens
Well that’s it for the smartest species the earth ever produced. And all for what?
Arthur C Clarke is a crap writer, but a good ideas man.
His book, Childhood’s End, touches on this theme of the end of the world and what’s the point.
Preachy and didactic, but worth a skim through.
Well, i ceratinly agree with this, this has to happen someday or the other.
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