In other words, this man, whose enormous wealth affords him access to the most spectacular settings our planet has to offer, actually believes these three cold, dead places are superior to the Earth we have, verdant and alive.
Uhh, i don’t want to contradict your narrative, but from his perspective, that actually makes sense.
If you look at the evolution of life, complex life developed around 300 million years ago, around at the same time that life learned to thrive on land. Just as a reminder: Living on land is extremely dangerous. There’s not enough water, you’re out-of-water around 90% of the time (except when it rains), there’s a shortage of various minerals, especially these minerals aren’t evenly distributed in an aqueous solution that you have always available, then there’s this aggressive sunlight all the time … the freezing cold in the day and the temperature differences between day and night.
you have none of these challenges if you just stay in the sea. and yet, life somehow managed to evolve to live in these harsh conditions. and in fact, life on land is typically more complex than life in the sea, because it has to be. For example, almost all photosynthetically active organisms in the sea are cyanobacteria (small cells without even clear structure within the cell), while on land it’s mostly eukaryotic plants, which are often much more complex and mechanically larger. So there’s clear developments there!
Now imagine if you continue this process, by going to a land that’s even more difficult to live in …
Uhh, i don’t want to contradict your narrative, but from his perspective, that actually makes sense.
If you look at the evolution of life, complex life developed around 300 million years ago, around at the same time that life learned to thrive on land. Just as a reminder: Living on land is extremely dangerous. There’s not enough water, you’re out-of-water around 90% of the time (except when it rains), there’s a shortage of various minerals, especially these minerals aren’t evenly distributed in an aqueous solution that you have always available, then there’s this aggressive sunlight all the time … the freezing cold in the day and the temperature differences between day and night.
you have none of these challenges if you just stay in the sea. and yet, life somehow managed to evolve to live in these harsh conditions. and in fact, life on land is typically more complex than life in the sea, because it has to be. For example, almost all photosynthetically active organisms in the sea are cyanobacteria (small cells without even clear structure within the cell), while on land it’s mostly eukaryotic plants, which are often much more complex and mechanically larger. So there’s clear developments there!
Now imagine if you continue this process, by going to a land that’s even more difficult to live in …