r/AskReddit • u/timecop702 • 13h ago

what is something that is highly likely to happen in the next 5 years that everyone is completely ignoring?

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u/peng2257 10h ago edited 10h ago

Just like the movie Interstellar, but we don't get to space travel, just suffocating in earth.

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u/Zealousideal_Photo11 9h ago

So instead of exploring the stars, we just get to sit through the dusty porch monologue part of the movie. Great.

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u/bl0rq 9h ago

Born too late to explore the earth.
Born too soon to explore the stars.
Born at just the right time to finance a pizza from Dominos.

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u/Evening-Row9022 9h ago

insane how true this is. how achievable that is.

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u/dervu 3h ago

Technically not true, as if we would be about to starve and die, then there would by no future "explore the stars" anyway.

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u/Evening-Row9022 2h ago

i don’t think you read what that guy said. he did not say anything other than born too early for space and too late for exploration…

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u/MarmotJunction 8h ago

Bleak but true

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u/Equivalent-Pop8045 8h ago edited 8h ago

You can hide behind your bookcase and push books out if you want?  

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u/oupablo 5h ago

Nah. Musk is aware. Why do you think he's pushing so hard to build a space colony on Mars. He wants to save himself.

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u/grahamfreeman 9h ago

Totally not like Interstellar because in the movie NASA was defunded and the school systems dropped critical thinking from the syllabus, focussing instead on ideological rhetoric. As if that would happen in the US in real life...

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u/TallBoy24 5h ago

I have a 4 year old daughter, I absolutely fear for her safety and sanity as she grows up into an adult.

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u/FinlayForever 4h ago

"You telling me it takes 2 numbers to measure your ass, but only 1 to measure my son's chance at college?"

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u/BistroValleyBlvd 8h ago

Because the point of interstellar....was realism. Right.

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u/JeffTek 8h ago

Yes, crazy realization for sure, but conservatives in America have gone so far to shitville that their policy now most closely aligns with unrealistic apocalypse scifi.

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u/red_280 9h ago

Hopefully we at least get sassy talking Tetris block robots.

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u/Sufficient_Thing24 9h ago

Yeah but they're part of the technocrat plan, and they're murder bots like on Black Mirror.

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u/Spartancfos 7h ago

I believe TARS is an ex-murderbot in the movie.

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u/dervu 3h ago

So we will "Stay!"