Here's the thing about fixing problems on Earth: people will get over their bullshit reeeal quick once they stare into the infinite blackness with nothing but a cold chunk of science between them and oblivion
4 years ago | 0
Lets focus on our problems here. You cant convince me that we went to the moon with crappy metals that would melt through the van allen belt lol or even funnier president called the moon from a land line lol
1 year ago | 0
People seriously underestimate the importance of space innovation/exploration and what possible technologies can spawn from it.
4 years ago | 10
"Fix the problems on Earth first" never works because we'll always have problems. If explorers and pioneers thought "maybe we should fix our problems at home first" then we wouldn't be where we are as a species. Hell, some of the solutions for the problems we have down here are out there not down here.
4 years ago | 3
Define "We", me and mine just want to "colonize" a few acres with a hole and a wall and some guns. As for the government, tough answer. If I could choose where the funding came from I'd bring home the military, buy a couple less jet fighters, and do both. However, if the U.S. is going to keep on how they are they don't want to fix our problems anyway. So I guess still Mars (the moon has no atmosphere or resources)
4 years ago | 0
I'm disappointed by the popularity of "fix problems on Earth first". There will ALWAYS be "problems" on Earth, and by what metric do you judge that you have solved "enough" of them... The kind of technological innovations that will be motivated by efforts of space colonization will come back to solve countless problems on Earth.
4 years ago (edited) | 8
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4 years ago | [YT] | 29