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Colonizing North America is dumb. Doesn't Europe offer us more than we need? Why do we need to send ships across the Atlantic, have people die on the way there, to live in an inhospitable land with no civilization, cut off from any kind of support back home.


Because religious differences.

Oh and tax breaks.
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We gonna colonize mars
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Jan 9 2018 03:49pm
Quote (russian @ Jan 9 2018 03:37pm)
Colonizing North America is dumb. Doesn't Europe offer us more than we need? Why do we need to send ships across the Atlantic, have people die on the way there, to live in an inhospitable land with no civilization, cut off from any kind of support back home.


Unfortunately we cannot go back in time, but we can (somewhat) control the direction of our futures. Not sure what you're getting at here.

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Unfortunately we cannot go back in time, but we can (somewhat) control the direction of our futures. Not sure what you're getting at here.


Quantum entanglement would disagree, if it could.
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Quote (Bassist @ Jan 9 2018 02:49pm)
Unfortunately we cannot go back in time, but we can (somewhat) control the direction of our futures. Not sure what you're getting at here.


Would you say that colonization of North America was a bad move for humanity in retrospect?
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