>>923 What's the point of saving the planet if no one is around for it? What happens in a few thousand or million years when the planet's hit by some big space object and it wipes out all the cute little animals anyway, when we could have averted it with the same technology we used to wipe ourselves out instead?

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm a pessimist or an optimist. What do you call someone who believes/realizes that all struggle is ultimately pointless, everything that exists or ever will will eventually be a lukewarm fog of dust floating in the void, but that it's our duty to carry on and not only to persist but to thrive in spite of that? I want humanity to spread to the stars, and to show those fucking stars who the boss is for as long as it can.