Comment Re:Yet another reason (Score 1) 926
Yeah, if you have one of those cards that automatically deducts fare (like a London Oyster card or those new transit cards in the San Francisco area), you are still being tracked.
We could also expend a lot of energy inventing technologies that are less likely to screw up the earth. Renewable energy, for example.
Colonising another planet is a dream. We'd do better to fix this one.
Even if it did somehow work, a trip through space and starting out on another planet would create a large selection bias. Those who got off Earth wouldn't be properly human for very long.
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