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With you on this one. In general the space stuff the way it's done in the West seems like manufacturing false hope about a humanity in space while our home is roasting due to climate change.
I am probably doompilled from seeing how all the tech bros talk about space, but I really don't care as long as on this planet immense suffering, exploitation and environmental destruction just goes on.
There's no planet B. This space travel stuff is just like religion in the way it gives people an out: "Suffering now does not matter because you will go to heaven/Boiling the planet doesn't matter, we'll live in Mars".
Exactly this. There is no evidence that Mars is even habitable for humans to my knowledge and the only planets that genuinely seem promising are light years away.
Disagree. I watched a movie based on real events where a guy goes to mars and grew potatoes in his own poopy
Also I’m sure that in a capitalist’s mind space is basically an infinite source of more resources to exploit
This is the immediate impression I had when I saw the preview for that Hail Mary movie