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KevinFromSpace@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months ago

Should we A) colonise other planets or B) build habitats in the middle of space, like O'Neill Cylinders and stuff?

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Should we A) colonise other planets or B) build habitats in the middle of space, like O'Neill Cylinders and stuff?

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KevinFromSpace@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months ago
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  • witx@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Is this sub-populated mostly by Facebook people? Some of the answers really feel like it.

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      All these answers are so killjoy and boring. Like yeah we should strive to make our own planet better, but why not also do this? Building habitats on other worlds doesn’t prevent us from caring for this one.

      Plus maybe trying to make a liveable environment in space can give us new insights in preserving the one at home. Like how solar panels have come from space exploration.

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        Why would people want to focus more on things we can actually do right now and would improve our lives instead of completely unfeasible pipe dreams? I don’t understand.

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          Isn’t there space for both? Why not try multiple avenues? Why have this negative view on everything? Wouldn’t you say the airplane and the car have tremendously improved humanity, even with all its downsides? Or the cellphone?

          I bet at the time of their inventions you would be opposing it because “billionaires are bad and this industry is going to explore the working class”. Guess what? Yes billionaires are bad and explore people and you (all of us) should be fighting against that, not against scientific and engineering inovation.

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          • BelieveRevolt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            Every industry exploits the working class under capitalism.

            Are we colonizing planets or building habitats in space right now or any time in the perceivable future, though? No, so beyond a fun thought experiment or sci-fi material, it’s not an idea worth giving any serious thought towards.

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              Right because innovation materializes itself when we want … We just flicked our fingers and airplane, cellphone and others just appeared.

              Who are you to tell what we should or should not pursue?

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                Are we pursuing colonizing planets or building space habitats in any serious way?

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        • Omashkooz [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          Space exploration isn’t unique to capitalist systems.

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          You seem to be letting your hatred for Musk confuse you about space exploration. NASA and other governmental agencies do very important work when it comes to space exploration

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            We all know what NASA research is really for.

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              My grandpa helped design and test the tech for ballistic missiles while working as a private contractor for a now defunct aerospace corporation under contract with NASA.

              If he was still alive I would say he gets the wall too.

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            He has Musk Derangement Syndrome 🤣🤣🤣

            Too much time reading clickbait

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                Can you string together 2 sentences without culture war tropes?

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                  Culture war is when a person points out the chauvinism inherent in cracker fantasies about colonizing the stars because there is nowhere left to colonize here without just admitting to themselves they just want to subjugate everyone and everything on earth and above.

                  @frauddogg@hexbear.net is 100% correct in every single comment they have made in this thread.

                  I can’t really even add anything to this other than say they right fuck off.

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                    Ironically enough in their fantasy about reaching mars with privatized space planes that is an extremely likely scenario lol

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                Techbros are burning the world down in swathes to fuel their theftboxes at best, and artificial lovers at worst, Neuralink just fucked some guy’s brains up, Cybertrucks keep failing left and goddamn right, but sure, let’s just chalk all this up to “Musk Derangement Syndrome” jesus fucking christ I hate you techbro settlers. Please die young of something preventable.

                lol this sounds like you have smoke coming out your ears writing it

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              Meh I dislike Musk as well but I don’t let that cloud my judgement of his companies or science/engineering in general.

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                I don’t let that cloud my judgement of his companies

                That says a lot about you, then. The guy’s a fascist but you don’t care because so-true muh bazingamobiles and space crap!

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          the planet is literally on fire

          Nah.

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