I think he means generally. It’s pretty much true as attested to by any glimpse of the public’s attitudes to COVID regs since March last year. Did you go to the beach with 8 billion other people or have all your family round on Christmas day? etc.
I’m less of a nihilist and hope that people can be good, clever and industrious. I just wish they’d look beyond the ends of their noses pretty much all the time.
As for space and exploration, the more the merrier. This planet will eventually die, we must leave. It was Arthur C Clarke who said that 2 things are possible. We’re alone in the universe or we’re not. Both of these are terrifying concepts.
One of the life forms that does not seem to “fit” on earth is Fungi - neither animal or plant. There is a theory that fungi was seeded on earth from space and experiments have shown that fungi spores can indeed survive in space and survive extreme temperatures.
… Pixar masterpiece Wall-E. Though it was released more than a decade ago, the movie feels eerily prescient of this moment when capitalist titans like Bezos are focused on turning space into either a pleasure zone or an industrial nightmare.
… Wall-E warns us of some of the dangers Bezos’ dream future could bring. We could lose sight of the very things that make us human, like having a relationship with other living things. Earth has been turned into an endless junkyard…
My fellow Canuck Bill Shatner is 90 years old…I am a bit worry if his body can handle the stress (yes, even though it’s only a few minutes). Hope that he will be OK.
The Virgin galactic guys have put hundreds of paying passengers through a centrifuge. Oldest I think was 97 with no ill effects. There were a couple who couldn’t take it but age didn’t seem to be an issue.
