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  • Where does the matter go?

    We take it out of the ground, put it into circulation of our food cycle,

    It’s not like it goes up in smoke and disappears from the planet.

    So where’s all those elements go?

    Answer -> Sewage

    At some point we’ll break even where it’s cheaper to reclaim those elements from sewage treatment than mining it.

    So no… 80% of humans staving to death because we can’t mine these elements isn’t something we’ll need to worry about long term.

    If in the future, abundant energy isn’t available for reclamation, then overall costs of living will increase slowly over the years, and then population rate will decrease (as it already is doing)

    It’s not like one day we’ll run out, and suddenly there’s a massive staving event.














  • The popularity of Predator is both the premise, and not assuming the audience are complete idiots, and providing them just enough information for the audience to figure it all out, without the movie explicitly spelling it out.

    Going into the movie, audience isn’t sure if what was killing the commandos was some kind of ‘monster’, magical entity, etc.

    The suspense and trying to piece together “Just wtf is it that’s hunting them an why” is the entire point of the movie.

    As the information slowly trickles in, we find out that it is an alien species on a safari hunt. Because why not? It makes perfect sense that we drop into a different world ‘jungle’ and hunt big dangerous game. Why couldn’t an alien species want to do the same?

    Why wouldn’t an alien species want ‘sport’ in that manner and only hunt the armed males.

    And the movie explained all of this, without some random character just saying all of that information out loud to explain it to the audience. We piece that together ourselves.

    This is why Predator movies as of late fall flat on their face.

    We already know what it is, and why its there. So everything after that is pointless.

    Predator 2 was ‘slightly’ interesting, as it filled in some gaps on the species itself.

    • is there more than 1
    • do they hunt other things?
    • what kind of other technology do they have?

    But beyond that, any Predator movie afterwards is a complete waste of time, unless it’s an audience member going into something like “Prey” completely blind to what a Predator even is, and/or has never seen any previous movie.

    Once you see the first movie and know the premise (or know the premise before ever going into it), the magic of it is already gone.