xianc78
Let's spread our existence throughout the cosmos!
:ancom: :disability: : No! Space colonization is just the logical conclusion of the capitalist notion of infinite growth and settler colonialism. We should instead focus on problems here on Earth like poverty and climate change.
:windmillofpeace: ✝️ : No! That's just an insult to God who made this Earth for us. We should instead colonize Africa.
xianc78
Both the far-left and far-right cases against space colonization are fucking dumb.
Sure, there is a lot of grifters out there like that Mars One scam from a few years ago, and I don't see it happening anytime soon, but I still feel like it's a goal worth pursuing.
xianc78
This is another lame argument against space colonization that I keep on hearing. Sure, life would probably won't be ideal for the settlers, but what will keep them going is knowing that they have purpose. Living in a pod on Mars will be much different than living in a pod on Earth where the only reason to do so is to appease the wishes of some technocratic psychopaths.
Also, news flash: you don't have to go there if you don't want to.
andreas
† top dog :pedomustdie:
xianc78
@dcc I don't care about "muh third-position". You are just culturally far-right while being economically left.
† top dog :pedomustdie:
xianc78
@Mr_NutterButter I see it as two things:
1. A reaction to Elon Musk being a total fraud, along with other people grifting on the space hype. Sure, I don't trust Elon Musk either and I'm open to the idea that most (if not all) of the things SpaceX are claiming to do are fake. Hell, I don't even fully trust NASA. I think the moon landings were a fraud, but I think anyone who does care about space should point out frauds when they see them because if we don't chances are that we will NEVER actually walk on the moon or do the cool things that these people are claiming to do.
2. It's just the "return to tradition" mentality taken to the extreme. The only way to be even more extreme is to deny science all together and embrace flat-earth theory.
xianc78
@picandor A lot of the techbro shit is probably just a psyop. Sure NFTs are useless, crypto and AI won't fix everything, but there are some good to come out of those things (except NFTs those are just digital Pokemon cards). I just think it's just a psyop to get people to turn down any legit invention/innovation that could actually help people.
Also, there is no doubt that there will be a bunch of ancaps and other libertarians embracing space colonies, but remember that space colonization is just an idea. You can have your own space colony in anyway you like.
xianc78
@picandor I honestly feel the same way about the seasteading movement. It's a brilliant idea, but no doubt there are a bunch of grifters there, and even the Seasteading Institute themselves are spamming their Twitter feed with AI art and auctioning off NFTs.
xianc78
@picandor I don't know if they themselves are grifters, but they have been pandering to the techbro crowd lately. AFAIK, they only fund projects. Some of those projects might be legitimate, while others could be scams. Or they can all be scams. But like space colonization, seasteading is also an idea and has technically already been done before (look up Sea Land and The Republic of Rose Island), so even if they are grifters, that shouldn't taint the idea itself.
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