Musk's promises of Mars missions is so ludicrous it's beyond belief. Money-making boondoggle. This speaking as an SF fan for the last 60 odd years.
Physiology being the key, of course. Meanwhile, sorting out our own backyard seems beyond our ken, which just may be the only key to open up that mysterious toolbox containing dialogue and harmony back here on our planet.
Writing that tired old “space is the enemy, technology is the enemy” garbage as they trot off to the optician, the dentist, write on the internet authoritatively quoting data from ocean monitoring satellites (in space) and supercomputer climate models, and in the next breath probably say that Gazans are in desperate need of medicines (ones developed before the start of the industrial revolution, one supposes).
Yes, Neil Armstrong was once a fighter pilot and the two Davids were once part of the scientific establishment. There are no double standards!
- Yes, the socialist USSR put men in space. Capitalism is therefore destroying the planet by putting men in space, so the logic goes.
- while media lens go off looking enviously for dragons to slay, destruction of this planet, which is the actual enemy continues unabated.
Yes, all technology is dual-use. This is not a recent curse, it is as old as humanity. This curse is within, not without.
on October 17, 2024, 10:42 am