They are the long-term solution for entirely different scenarios. Space flight in the long term is all about having some part of our species survive in case we screw up Earth completely while fixing things on Earth is what will benefit more people but won’t do anything about the risk of the “all eggs in one basket” situation.
Thus frames the eggs as the humans and the basket as earth. Could easily flip it and say we are stewards of one planet and if we fuck up so catastrophically we have to leave maybe our arrival wouldn’t be the best idea for the next habitable planet we land on…
Compared to most of the things we do as humanity space program budgets are tiny. If you got rid of either the military or the super-rich you could fund everything humanity and the rest of the ecosystem needs down here and have money left over for dozens of space budgets for all of humanity.
They are the long-term solution for entirely different scenarios. Space flight in the long term is all about having some part of our species survive in case we screw up Earth completely while fixing things on Earth is what will benefit more people but won’t do anything about the risk of the “all eggs in one basket” situation.
Thus frames the eggs as the humans and the basket as earth. Could easily flip it and say we are stewards of one planet and if we fuck up so catastrophically we have to leave maybe our arrival wouldn’t be the best idea for the next habitable planet we land on…
If your basket has a big fuck off hole in it stop putting eggs in…
ok but both cost money, and id rather survive now then have descendants live on mars
Compared to most of the things we do as humanity space program budgets are tiny. If you got rid of either the military or the super-rich you could fund everything humanity and the rest of the ecosystem needs down here and have money left over for dozens of space budgets for all of humanity.
I’m down with that plan : but until then i need the space program to buy my groceries