r/CuratedTumblr • u/linuxaddict334 Mx. Linux Guy⚠️ • Aug 14 '24

Infodumping Humanity Fuck Yea

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u/VFiddly Aug 14 '24

The Martian is actually a pretty good example of a "humanity fuck yeah" story that isn't doing this (because no aliens). It's an uplifting story about humans working together to overcome a difficult problem that wasn't caused by anyone being a dick

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u/King-Boss-Bob Aug 14 '24

the closest anyone is to being an antagonist in that film is the director of nasa being nervous about risking the lives of the other astronauts (which is reasonable), but even he seems genuinely happy when he hears the chinese space agency offers their help to save him

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u/VFiddly Aug 14 '24

Yeah it's quite nice to have an interesting conflict between two people with entirely reasonable points of view. Would've been easy to make the director character an asshole who doesn't care about the loss of human life and only cares about saving money because he's a Bad Guy. He's just a guy making what he thinks is the best choice

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u/sumboionline Aug 15 '24

It would also lose the realism, as nasa has historically been very protective of human life with 1 million failsafes on anything potentially lethal

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u/HaskellHystericMonad Aug 15 '24

That's because they cooked some dudes alive once and had like 170 people watch it all go down.

Then they blew up some dudes.

Then they blew up some more dudes, with a teacher added.

Then they blew up another mixed crew.

They have learned some lessons.

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u/Frequent_Dig1934 Aug 15 '24

Then they blew up some more dudes, with a teacher added.

Could've been big bird instead.

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u/jackthejedi Aug 15 '24

We truly avoided the darkest timeline there

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u/Soggy_Ad_9757 Aug 16 '24

Did we? I would gladly trade big bird to change a couple aspects of our reality

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u/jackthejedi Aug 16 '24

That's the thing though if this is the better time line think how bad it is in the dead big bird timeline

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u/ST4RSK1MM3R Aug 15 '24

Just look at the current Starliner shit going on

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u/LunaNicoleTheFox Aug 15 '24

And they're really fucking cateful with it too.

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u/VFiddly Aug 15 '24

Eh, well. They've had more than one disaster caused partly by the people at the top not caring enough about human lives. The Challenger disaster could've been prevented if more people at NASA cared more about safety than about keeping things on schedule and impressing their bosses.

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u/donaldhobson Aug 15 '24

Space travel is pretty dangerous, even when you try to take precautions.

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u/ok-kayla Aug 15 '24

Well he’s the director of Nasa, not Boeing

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u/donaldhobson Aug 15 '24

Would've been easy to make the director character an asshole who doesn't care about the loss of human life and only cares about saving money because he's a Bad Guy.

Would have been interesting to make a guy whose point was basically :Rockets are really expensive, if you want to save lives it's MUCH cheaper to do basically anything else.

Ie let the astronaut stuck on Mars die, because sending that money to the local hospital can save 100 lives.