I know, right? I mean, what is he even going to do if he somehow gets to go to another planet? He'll spend all his time hanging out at the local McDonald's hunched over his phone tweeting. All I can figure is that protestations to the contrary aside, he derives a pathetically large part of his self-worth from the state that he lives in, and that he thinks that we'll someday soon have an bona fide interstellar empire republic that he can gloat about being a citizen of, if only those dang dirty Republicans would just die already. Or he thinks that everybody else thinks and talks in pop culture terms like he does, so it's actually just a shorthand for an advanced future that contains things that are less socially acceptable for him to openly advocate for like sex robots, genetically-engineered gynoid slaves, and full-body totally immersive VR. (Late edit: probably also the end of religion too, which he can't openly advocate for lest someone ask, "But what about the Muslims, Bob?")
Your mistake is assuming that
any of Bob's beliefs are rational or grounded in reality.
He's a massive, heh, manchild who just blindly believes what ever stokes his ego.
Of course, as the TDS thread shows, he's
far from alone in that category.
But what makes Bob different is that he adds on top of all that his own brand of ego, sociopathy and batshit insanity and utter inability to grow the fuck up.
He probably watched one those "what will the future look like" videos that said we would have flying cars by 2015 and took it at face value.
Watching Star Trek convinced him of Moon Wheat and Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism.
And the endless amount of cliche "nice nerd gets the girl over jerk jock" movies made him think that "Intelligence is the
only virtue". How much you wanna bet that he was
slightly ahead of the curb in first grade and that made him think he was hot shit.
So thus we get his sperg outs about how the only thing between humanity and the Singularity is some farmer in Kansas voting for the big R.
Really he's just a small, spiteful, angry person and hopefully he'll do the world a favor and drop dead of a rage aneurism next November.
But not before giving us some
prime sperging before he goes.