• 4oremanEnglish
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    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I don’t think China, the US, or SpaceX are inherently evil, but the interests of people who run them aren’t always aligned with the rest of humanity.

      I do like watching rocket launches though, and if a little competition spurs them on, I’m all here for it!

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        • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          1 year ago

          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.

          • julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            1 year ago

            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…

            • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              1 year ago

              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.