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by foldr 37 days ago
>If you get offered a chance to ride on the rocket ship, you don't ask questions you just get on

This doesn't even work as a metaphor. I absolutely would not jump on the chance to ride on a literal rocket ship without asking a hell of a lot of questions first!
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epoxyhockey 37 days ago
This doesn't even work as a metaphor

The whole speech was probably written by AI anyway </sarcasm>

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watwut 36 days ago
Yeah, that was my first thought too. If I am character in a sci-fi book (and he is old enough to read those), I totally jump on it.

But here, back in the real world, with one life to live, majority of people will simply refuse because they have lives and sane interested person asks a lot of questions. I mean, was he one of early Titan submersible passengers? And that one guaranteed quick death rather then prolonged one or slavery or what have you.

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