What exotic science fiction technology would you finance research into, if you had billions of dollars?
What exotic science fiction technology would you finance research into, if you had billions of dollars?
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Earth unity. Whatever they did to make humans stop attacking each other was crazy.
We probably need another species to compete against to unite us. I'd put Billions into nasa to find aliens so we can fight them.
We probably need another species to compete against to unite us.
Nah, the US would use it as an excuse to demand a world government under their control.
If we controlled the world government, then what are all these politicians who run on a platform of exposing the secret government that already controls the world going to do?
I'm only downvoting you because that's basically what OP said, not be cause you're wrong.
Throughout history men have joined with their enemies to kill their neighbors. Cortez had an army of native Americans with him to take down the Aztecs.
Another species is very useful for unity, not necessarily for us to band together against, but because a proper intelligent alien kind of invalidates every religion. All the conflicts from culture clashing suddenly become pointless.
Or at least racists will have something else to look down on.
Dump all the billions into AI controlled nuclear weapons
When the aliens show up and demand who's responsible for why our societies are such shitshows, all we have to do is point towards the fancy neighborhoods
Now Mr Ozymandius with this one cool trick you don't even need to find the aliens.