You know what, this makes a good point. The only people who will be truly more fucked then they are right now when the alien apocalypse comes is the 1% because now they are just a bunch of powerless slaves
Look. everyone is on the Kang Bang Train however I'm kudos for Kudos.
Vote Kudos.
Real talk. Would aliens even want our natural resources? Like they could travel the cosmos. Our planet is made up of elements that are already available to them before they get here.
Like our planet doesn't have anything special when it comes to resources.
It's got delicious CEO's
Alien: we will poison your oceans with synthetic micro particles
Human: got that too.
Alien: that it’s, time for the big stuff. We will create elaborate torture schedules that give you soul crushing tasks while slowly making all good things in your life worse as we condition you that it’s all your fault.
Human: oh boy, you should probably sit down for this…
Thrn you realize that alien invasion stories are a (often unconscious) metaphor for colonialism from the point of view of the colonized…
"We'll take your women to bare our children"
"The volunteers are lining up already"
Gee thanks for linking the comic where I stole the joke from :p
I find mining very interesting, especially the reclamation aspect. There are tons of issues to get things back to chemically and physically stable.
The mine shown here is the Ekati Mine in NWT Canada. It's set to close in 2029. All mines must have a plan for closure, and these plans, at least in NWT are public.
Here is the one for Ekati. https://registry.mvlwb.ca/Documents/W2020L2-0004/Ekati - CRP Version 3.1 - Part 1 - Aug 15_23.pdf
Closure plans are super long: the summary text is often 200 to 300 pages, and with the associated appendices are like 1-3k pages in length and are highly technical
Fortunately, Section 1 (page 49) has a plain language summary of the closure plan. Here you can find a summary of major closure strategies for things like pits and waste rock dumps
These plans get more and more certain as they revise them and approach the end of operations.
Fill your boots! There is some cool stuff in the closure plan if you're inclined to learn more!
Basically the plot of 3 Body Problem
I've only read the first book and wow it was dumb. I felt duped.
A civilization capable of building colony ships that can reach 1% speed of light and proton sized supercomputers were just sitting around waiting for a signal? Why haven't these mofos built those ships already to reach a nearest star already? Just park those ships in Goldilocks' zone and then start searching for other suitable planet to colonize or terraform.
Not to mention life on their planet gets wiped out constantly and yet intelligent life capable of spaceflight evolved there? Sorry, can't buy it at all.
Just a jenga of unbelievable premises.
Agreed 100%. Be thankful you didn't read the 2nd book. So ridiculously silly and predictable. To the point of absurdity.
I love sci-fi. Cool unique ideas, terrible execution. These books are so overrated.
This is better if you read the "me" parts in the voice of Tom Servo (as pictured), and the alien parts in the voice of Dr. Forrester.
Yea no shit because the government is led by aliens
