The goal is enhancement beyond the merely human, not arbitrary change for the sake of self-affirmation. Our goal is to grow and become in the direction of godhood. The merely human holds no promise. Strive for the superhuman, even if we will not achieve it for generations.

— Wolf Tivy (@wolftivy) January 2, 2023

This is it, right here. The “impossible” is a series of hard climbs and plateaus that people then say we can’t go beyond. This cycle has happened hundreds of times in our history.

This is reference the “we should just die in this anthill, Mars is impossible article” I linked to earlier:

That’s a less angry take and more charitable than I’d ever be to that unspeakably stupid and clueless article, but “Why not?” is always a better response than, “It’s hard. We shouldn’t even try.” What a clown that dude is (the one who wrote the Mars article).

Why Not Mars.

This article is deeply, deeply stupid. But it’s “smart people” stupid so it will snooker more than a few.

Explaining why — dang, I got better things to do, and it would take also thousands of words. But mainly I hate it because it’s loser thinking. In short, we could have the tech if we wanted it, and robots are no replacement for human exploration. Also, the idea that we’d send humans to Mars and restrict them from going outside when they got there is fucking ludicrous.

Smart people are the best in the world at having deep and meaningful-seeming justifications for their already-decided-upon positions.

We should build a permanent base on the Moon, then should be pushing for Mars and then Europa or Ganymede.

What’s easy but people are NOT doing it?

Working out for 20 minutes three days a week. Has immediate and long-term health benefits, makes a positive difference no matter your weight or health, and has no negative benefits other than spending 20 minutes of your time that you’d probably be watching some terrible sitcom etc.

Doing this improves your health, cognition, physical capabilities and your metabolism for quite a small time committment.