• airbussy@lemmy.oneEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        191·
        2 years ago

        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.

          • BelieveRevolt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            61·
            2 years ago

            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.

            • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
              8·
              2 years ago

              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.

              • FrogPrincess@lemmy.mlEnglish
                6·
                2 years ago

                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

                • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  114·
                  2 years ago

                  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.

                  • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                    93·
                    2 years ago

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

              • BelieveRevolt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                92·
                2 years ago

                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!

                • LilyRose1919@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
                  6·
                  2 years ago

                  He isn’t even the guy behind any discovery his manifold bought-up companies make.

                  Then stop obsessing on him maybe? The thread was supposed to be about space stations and stuff.

                  • m532 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
                    62·
                    2 years ago

                    melon-musk and those other bazingas are all the same

                    Colonizer fantasies and zero knowledge about how anything works