Jamie Wheal

there’s a more serious question that rarely gets asked of the would-be space colonizers: Are we sure?

if we could marshal the technical expertise, capital, and drive to pull off this historic feat

It doesn’t hinge on an ultimate showdown between Good and Evil

It’s a Rapture Ideology nonetheless.

We like to believe that we’ll all pull together in times of crisis

offered a reality check on disaster relief as a service:

Our desire to believe it will all work out somehow lies somewhere between wishful thinking and learned helplessness

whatever money and technology they can employ to insulate themselves

“All of these things that we hold dear work because we believe they work. While I do believe they’re quite resilient, and we’ve been through a lot, certainly we’re going to go through a lot more.”

Douglas Rushkoff (Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus),