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minus-squareGigglyBobble@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up98arrow-down1·1 year agoI still can believe the world to rally together when it means to kill something. The enemy must be simple though. Too complicated or invisible or something and the conspiracy nuts will take over.
minus-squareholycrap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down1·1 year agoYou wouldn’t be able to see the aliens. The best you would be able to do is get blurry pictures of their ships from telescopes if you’re lucky. Conspiracy nuts would do fine.
minus-squareZink@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoI thought the same thing. I could see the world banding (mostly) together for a fight, but not to just make life better.
minus-squarep1mrx@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year ago I still can believe the world to rally together when it means to kill something. The pandemic was an opportunity for humanity to kill something, at least to the extent that viruses are alive.
minus-squareGigglyBobble@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoBut a pathogen is too complicated to fight and invisible.
minus-squarep1mrx@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoImmunology is hard. Let’s go shopping.
minus-squarep1mrx@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI guess they bleed RNA instead of blood.
minus-squarejballs@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoOn that note, I highly recommend checking out The Three Body Problem books. Without going into spoilers, this is a huge part of one of the books.
minus-squarerpr@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI’m halfway through book two and I was thinking the same thing.
minus-squarejballs@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThat’s the book I was thinking of!
minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year ago Too complicated or invisible or… Bing bing bing! Internal Combustion Engine? Nuclear Bomb? SCIENCE, praise be. Invisible / long term & murky phenomena? JUST YOUR OPINION, man, I trust Facebook and WhatsApp forwards on this one.
I still can believe the world to rally together when it means to kill something.
The enemy must be simple though. Too complicated or invisible or something and the conspiracy nuts will take over.
You wouldn’t be able to see the aliens. The best you would be able to do is get blurry pictures of their ships from telescopes if you’re lucky. Conspiracy nuts would do fine.
SomethingSomething else*I thought the same thing. I could see the world banding (mostly) together for a fight, but not to just make life better.
The pandemic was an opportunity for humanity to kill something, at least to the extent that viruses are alive.
But a pathogen is too complicated to fight and invisible.
Immunology is hard. Let’s go shopping.
Do viruses bleed?
I guess they bleed RNA instead of blood.
On that note, I highly recommend checking out The Three Body Problem books. Without going into spoilers, this is a huge part of one of the books.
I’m halfway through book two and I was thinking the same thing.
That’s the book I was thinking of!
Bing bing bing!
Internal Combustion Engine? Nuclear Bomb? SCIENCE, praise be.
Invisible / long term & murky phenomena? JUST YOUR OPINION, man, I trust Facebook and WhatsApp forwards on this one.