Absolutely fascinating:
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I am rather reminded of the life on Venus discussions a few years ago. It’s interesting, but probably more indicative of an unknown chemical process.
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Can we still send Trump and Musk to Mars? You know, just to be sure there are no idiots around to fuck up the search for any other planets that potentially harbour life?
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I’d love someone to explain to me how it’s justified spending billions on space exploration, while millions are starving, homeless or living in atrocious conditions.
I personally couldn’t give a fuck what’s on Mars, Venus etc, and I’m sure millions feel the same way.
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I think it’s quite of some import, perhaps not now in this immediate moment but science has been built upon thousands of years of discovery with each important to moving onto the next one so what we do with space exploration now neans someone later on down the line can advance it.
I think the more pertinent question is the distribution of wealth where individuals, and states, hoard more than can possibly be used while allowing human suffering to continue.
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It’s a great route to force technological development ve it through better physics or tech to deliver experiments for better physics.
I think it’s important for developing space industries over having them down here. Energy generation being the big one for me.
Tourism though? Not so much and one example why I loathe Musk, Bezos and Branson for wasting the opportunity their stupid wealth has given them.
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Branson? At about 1% or less the nett worth of the other two, he’s a pauper, relatively speaking.
True but he still tried his hand at space tourism.
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Who all flew solo, for 3 days and about 50 orbits. Oh, and actual trained for and piloted the whole thing.
But then, I once flew with Easyjet, which makes me Chuck Yeager or something…
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Fascinating article on our beautiful home.
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