We have sympathies towards both movements, and consider ourselves to take the middle path. We race forward and accelerate as quickly as possible while mentioning safety.
Mentioning safety is a waste of resources that you could direct toward attaching propulsion to asteroids to get them here faster.
In fact, asteroids will inevitably hit earth earlier or later, and if they kill humanity, clearly they are superior to humanity. The true masters of our future lightcone are the asteroids. That which can be destroyed by asteroids ought to be destroyed by asteroids.
True progress is in speeding the inevitable. Resistance is futile.
Mentioning safety is a waste of resources that you could direct toward attaching propulsion to asteroids to get them here faster.
In fact, asteroids will inevitably hit earth earlier or later, and if they kill humanity, clearly they are superior to humanity. The true masters of our future lightcone are the asteroids. That which can be destroyed by asteroids ought to be destroyed by asteroids.
True progress is in speeding the inevitable. Resistance is futile.