Bill Nye: It's Space Settlement, Not Colonization

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Good thing Bill Nye is making sure we're all using the correct newspeak. Still, I can't imagine we will be encountering any indigenous Martians when we get there.

The never-ending word treadmill we're on is amusing. A perfectly descriptive word is associated with something awful. We stop using that "offensive" word in favor of another word. The new word is then associated with something awful and the cycle repeats.

It's almost as if the only point of updating our vocabulary and retiring "offensive" terms is to signal our virtue and tribe.

Just think a bunch of people were paid money to sit around and discuss this, someone was paid to write this and advertisers are paying to have spots next to it. All about a debate as to whether 'colony' is more offensive than 'settlement'.

It used to be normal to use the n word to describe black people, why did that change? Why isn't it ok to simply keep using that word?

You're argument is flawed. Constant improvement and constant self examination and constant self improvement are required methodologies to write good code or make good projects, yet here you are arguing the opposite

A colonist and a settler aren't the same thing? Like it or not, what you'll get is a colony, and if it thrives and grows, there will be competition that results in the exact results we already know and love when it comes to colonization here on this planet.

Reminder that Bill Nye also brought you this gem:

https://youtu.be/VtJFb_P2j48

Enjoy!

That changes just about everything I thought I knew about space-time.

The message is perfectly fine-- But definitely weird even for a guy who can often be described as "weird".

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