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[–] airbussy@lemmy.one 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

All these answers are so killjoy and boring.

Yes, fantasizing about billionaires fixing everything by making good on their bullshit marketing pitches is very exciting to credulous people.

Building habitats on other worlds doesn't prevent us from caring for this one.

If you believe that there's some magic means to have zero emissions launches into space that are in any way self-sustained without further launches to keep throwing resources after spent resources from an increasingly polluted, depleted, and warming Earth, sure, you can huff that hopium deep and hard and ignore the worsening material reality all around you.

Plus maybe trying to make a liveable environment in space can give us new insights in preserving the one at home.

You've bought deeply into billionaire bullshit and their bogus promises, especially as privatized space travel in the west becomes increasingly vanity tourism and marketing stunts. The accomplishments that such companies' underpaid and overworked workers achieve are not for the common good, nor can they be because they are publicly subsidized private companies seeking to maximize profits and expand their own venture capital appeal, and nothing more.

[–] Omashkooz@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

Space exploration isn't unique to capitalist systems.

[–] frauddogg@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Drej Queen, Earth yearns for the Cleansing Light of extermination

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

speech-r Drej words for "I think I'll just sit back and watch these ignorant humans burn their own planet down while fantasizing about escaping it for now.'

[–] frauddogg@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] xXShadowXx@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the planet is literally on fire

Nah.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

You can ignore catastrophic global warming and actual fucking wildfires of unprecedented frequency and scale if you think being a Reddit-tier pedant will protect you.