• @airbussy@lemmy.one
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    102 months 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]
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      182 months 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.

      • @witx
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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.

        • frauddogg [null/void, undecided]
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          Isn’t there space for both?

          No. Flatly. You do not get to eject any more human garbage into the cosmos from which we came-- you already have WHOLE FUCKING ARRAYS of busted up satellites and pieces of rockets and a bunch of other more shit floating in high orbit that you have no plans to go retrieve, mind you; fuck would you propose making even more for? Other than the narcissistic techbro flex, I mean?

          • @LilyRose1919@lemmygrad.ml
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            72 months ago

            There is no way you are this upset about piece of metal existing on Mars, littering the rocks. You’re upset about something else and transferring it.

            • frauddogg [null/void, undecided]
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              It physically enrages me every time I look into the night sky ad have to question how much of what I’m seeing up there is just dead space junk. I grew up considering the cosmos more beautiful, and honestly, more sacred than even the ocean that perpetuates our planet. So no, it actually does anger me that people just brazenly throw around ideas of doing what they’ve already done to Earth to other planets, and honestly fuck you for trying to minimize that rage.

              Are you a psychiatrist? Do you have ANY kind of accreditation or doctorate to make such a call? I don’t know how you got a lemmygrad account; but I can only take it to mean the moderation there really is slipping.

        • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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          52 months 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.

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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?

      • @witx
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        72 months ago

        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

          • Nakoichi [they/them]
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            82 months 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.

          • frauddogg [null/void, undecided]
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            “DAE le Musk Derangement Syndrome?”

            bazinga

            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.

              • Nakoichi [they/them]
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                72 months 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.

                • frauddogg [null/void, undecided]
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                  72 months ago

                  “As below, so above” might as well be the settler-colonizer’s ethos. “As I subjugate everything below me, I must reach for what’s above.” At what point is Polly satisfied?

                  Never, apparently. Humanity will go extinct thanks to this malign tumor on our collective neck.

                  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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                    82 months ago

                    Also funny how libs mistake actual structural material analysis as “culture war tropes” because their framework for viewing the world is constrained by their MSNBC vs Fox News idea of good and bad and anything that challenges it must be from the wrong side of said culture war. Which funnily enough is also culture war bullshit.

                    “Surely I can’t be racist I’m one of the good white people!”

                • Nakoichi [they/them]
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                  62 months ago

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

            • @FrogPrincess@lemmy.ml
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              62 months 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

          • @witx
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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.

            • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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              72 months 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!

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                Polly’s Tenet: “I can excuse anything from anyone if it means my treats arrive on time”. My parrot is literally more disciplined than these settler shitstains.

            • frauddogg [null/void, undecided]
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              He isn’t even the guy behind any discovery his manifold bought-up companies make. He’s just the nepobaby failspawn of blood emerald mining company money in South Africa; and as far as I’m concerned, that makes anything that comes out of his companies while he helms them fruit of the poison tree.

              We do not support, uplift, or patronize colonizers, slavers, resource-extracting thieves, or any combination of the three in this house.

              • @LilyRose1919@lemmygrad.ml
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                52 months 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.

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                  melon-musk and those other bazingas are all the same

                  Colonizer fantasies and zero knowledge about how anything works

    • frauddogg [null/void, undecided]
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      All these answers are so killjoy and boring

      Fuck you, the planet is literally on fire and you bazinga-assed techbros want to talk about escape plans. FIX WHAT YOU FUCKED UP FIRST.