alt Hacker NewsCan we have a science paper that explains why we can colonize Andromeda but we can’t build high speed rail?
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psychoslave • today at 4:50 PM
Because we don't refer to the same entities in each case?
fnord77 • today at 5:42 PM
There's no NIMBYs in Andromeda
In one case "we" is an imaginary humanity as a whole acting to fulfill a grand species defining mission, in the other case "we" is the real, decadent, ignorant and divided population of some countries.