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Post #3645482
2026-07-01 20:52 UTC
Two days ago I finally saw Project Hail Mary - I knew I was going to like it, but the movie reminded me, on a visceral level, how much I really do love science and technology and how problem-solving brings people together.
It also reminded me how much I despise the kneejerk leftist response of renouncing any technology fascists have weaponized. It's always easier to destroy things with technology, but some leftists seem unwilling to put in the intellectual effort required to safely harness new technology, even if it could benefit everyone in hugely impactful ways, just because the fascists got there first.
We wouldn't have a global climate emergency if we had just replaced coal with nuclear reactors, especially with a molten salt design that renders an explosive meltdown physically impossible. We let fear decide our policies and now the whole planet will burn for it.
Are new technologies dangerous? Yes, but if we refuse them entirely, we will consign ourselves to a much worse fate.
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"Time Go Fishing" is a soundtrack to engineering's endless battle against suffering. It is a cry of defiance against an uncaring universe. It's not only my new favorite movie soundtrack, it might just be the one scene that topples the signal discovery scene from Contact (1997) as my favorite movie scene of all time.
The song is a microcosm of our fight against the march of entropy. It is a reminder that to be alive is to fight for something. To find someone to be brave for.
With science as our sword, we will carve a better path through the tangles of time, where cancer is conquered and death is defeated. The future is unwritten, anything is possible.
It will not be easy. It will be hard. Everything worth doing, is. We just have to be brave.
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