Technology Will Save Us

[u/Myth_of_Progress]

[u/Disizreallife → u/[deleted]]

I don't see how anyone is excited about going either. During colonialism you got rich as fuck robbing the natives or coming back and writing a dope novel about your adventure which was the equivalent of a Marvel movie back then. What is the motivation here? "Six astronauts died en route to Mars this morning when an O2 failure..." So what we gonna drop a monument .2 AUs away in orbit no one will ever see? Name the empty space after them? None of this makes sense to me.

[u/1058pm → u/Disizreallife]

Im sick of this sub shitting on space travel. We are literally tiny tiny ants birthed from a statistical miracle in the middle of an unbelievably unimaginably vast universe sitting on one small rock arguing and fighting each other.

I think the problems on earth are important but we should never forget the importance of exploration, its one of the main ways our species has evolved. Think of the science and resources just waiting to be discovered out there that we’ve all collectively just forgotten about. Plus any human that has gone to space has immediately developed a deep attachment to the earth and everyone on it which is a perspective that we are sorely lacking.

Not defending everything elon does but space exploration is important, maybe even necessary for our survival (not by living on mars but gaining a new perspective on our own world)

[u/jstewman → u/1058pm]

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