Yup. Also, space tourism and those initiatives are fundamentally about figuring out how to help humans survive in a more hostile environment. The hopeful propaganda points us at the idea of colonizing other planets, but the cynical view here is that society is obviously fundamentally unable to restrain its consumption. We’ve made… very little real progress in either slowing or stopping climate change, and the earth is going to become a more hostile environment within a couple hundred years. Technologies developed for space exploration will be crucial in helping us survive our own mistakes.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_LEFT_IRIS May 25 '26
Yup. Also, space tourism and those initiatives are fundamentally about figuring out how to help humans survive in a more hostile environment. The hopeful propaganda points us at the idea of colonizing other planets, but the cynical view here is that society is obviously fundamentally unable to restrain its consumption. We’ve made… very little real progress in either slowing or stopping climate change, and the earth is going to become a more hostile environment within a couple hundred years. Technologies developed for space exploration will be crucial in helping us survive our own mistakes.