I get tired of a handful of unproductive assholes making decisions that benefit almost no one. I'm all for building stuff on the moon, but how about we fix the shit on earth first ffs?
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Yes, but also, space progress must go on despite our issues here.
Why? Why must we be spending resources in space before we have here figured out?
And who funds it? The people struggling here and now? Lol
Because dropping the ball delays civilization scale progress and denies future generations opportunities to further our kind. It’s a multi-generational task to make progress in space which helps us develop new technologies and it’s every generation’s responsibility to keep things moving (hopefully faster than slower). If we want our species to advance, we’ll pursue space and not make up excuses for not doing it.
I’m off to bed, won’t be able to reply to you, ser.
Maybe, but so does leaving humans hopeless today on earth. You can't move forward when you're slipping backward. I'm not saying every little problem needs to be fixed before we look to the future. That is impossible. But looking around, I don't think I should be funding a nuclear reactor on the moon. There are national security reasons for this sort of thing I'm sure. But having Americans (speaking from my perspective) slip further into hopelessness is a much bigger national security threat. That's a bigger threat to the future of humanity than not building a nuclear reactor on the moon, in my opinion. Many people are so hopeless they don't even have children anymore. What humanity will it be for? I understand what you're saying but the balance is way too off to be looking at a future in space. People are having a hard enough time just living on earth. I think that should be the focus. We should at least have stable life here before digging a deeper hole to build a nuclear reactor on a distant rock. Especially considering the need for more (cleaner) energy on planet. The best way to secure humanity's future is to secure it's present. Imagine investing money for your future while spending more than you make or return on the investment today. Seems pointless to me.
Need to do both - address problems here and still pursue technological advancement.
I think we’ll just have to wait for boomers to kick the bucket for issues to start resolving.
Sure, the problem is that doing the second makes the first worse. Like we're dead broke. Broker than broke. We shouldn't be doing anything that digs a deeper hole. You don't swim deeper when youre drowning. You get to where you can breathe. We obviously disagree, but that's my opinion.