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+ | {{incomplete|Can someone please re-write this to make it less abominable?}} | ||
==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | The joke has to do with the very unrealistic timeline of 10 to 15 years to solve all the worlds problems, but it is also a comeback to the even more unrealistic criteria of solving all of our problems on earth before we explore other planets. (ie. "Here's my B.S. criteria for something", "Well here's my equally B.S. comeback) | |
− | The | + | The suggestion of [[White Hat]] is ridiculous, because "all our problems" on Earth is very vague, and represents a large, clustered set of big and small problems, often causing each other, or colliding. |
− | + | But it's just a common reaction by people to science missions costing one or even some more Billion Dollars. They don't realise that this big amount of money is topped by the factor of hundred or thousand for solving our current "problems on Earth", like wars or supporting financial institutions. | |
− | + | Cueball asks what time-frame this shift in effort would need to last for, before the myriad of ground-level problems are solved and everyone is happy to reactivate and reconstruct the space-infrastructures that had been laid fallow for the duration. So maybe this is also a pun on the current wars the US are involved in and when they can end them. | |
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+ | While the title text admits that there are a lot of problems, just considering the largest ones, like famine, diseases, energy, climatic changes, and wars, it would be unrealistic to think we could solve them in fifteen years, when humanity has been struggling with most of them since its appearance on Earth (and caused a series of them personally). It seems that, if we really wanted to solve all of our problems before exploring more planets, we would, in fact, never explore them. One could argue, however, that by exploring before we do, we'd be only worsening our problems by wasting resources, or leeching resources from other planets (while unrealistic at this phase) to solve our problems by causing problems elsewhere, so the reasoning isn't completely baseless, while the timeline set is unrealistic. | ||
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+ | The argument between exploring space vs saving resources and solving problems on Earth is a pretty common one and can evoke many arguments on either side. Eggs and baskets may be mentioned, and realistically there probably ought to be a balance (as there already is) although naturally almost no-one, from ''either'' side of the discussion, is ever satisfied with the chosen allocations. If it isn't space programmes that's under/over-funded it's something else, anyway, with various individuals having their own particular favourite and bugbear expenditures in mind. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Cueball and White Hat stand talking | + | :[Cueball and White Hat stand talking.] |
:White Hat: We shouldn't be exploring other planets until we've solved all our problems here on Earth. | :White Hat: We shouldn't be exploring other planets until we've solved all our problems here on Earth. | ||
:Cueball: Sounds reasonable. So, what's the timeline on "Solving all problems"? Ten years? Fifteen? | :Cueball: Sounds reasonable. So, what's the timeline on "Solving all problems"? Ten years? Fifteen? | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] |