Originally Posted by
BigBoom550
(For context, the user is talking about RWBY) Gene Krantz, after the Apollo One failure. They failed, but they would be better. They would not give up. The fact it did not work was on them and them alone, not some quirk of the universe, or some factor of reality. It was on them to ensure that it work.
In the face of survival, the fact that they gave up because Dust didn't do it disgusted me. It disgusted me because that meant that nobody in that room stood up and said "It didn't work. Dust doesn't work. So we need to stop using Dust in our designs.". It meant that in the face of annihilation, in the pursuit of survival, not a single person was willing to stand and go 'maybe we were wrong'. In the face of a small failure, they chose to roll over and give up.
It's pathetic. It's just utterly pathetic.
Humanity's existence can be summrized as doing what doesn't work and making it work. We're bipeds. We're horrible at speed. So guess what? We decided to exhaust our prey to death. We're small, and weak, and we built massive eidolons of stone that last milennia. We are unable to fly, and we decided to drive past the skies and step among the stars. We are cold, and so we chase the very flame of the stars themselves.
To be human is not to try one thing and give up. It is to decide upon a course of action and, as a whole, make it happen, hell or high water. It is to ignore all pretentious convention and do what we must to ensure our advancement.
To be human is to succeed where we should not.
They tried one thing. One. And they know why it didn't work, and yet they gave up. They gave up and rolled over. They didn't even try. They didn't try!
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