Seems like the material human cost of space travel never even occurs to them. The poor indigenous people who mine the precious metals and iron etc. that make the spacecraft, the massive costs of feeding and housing all the engineers and scientists working on Musk's futile vanity project -- none of that is even on their radar. They reason that because SpaceX is more efficient and cost effective than Boeing/Lockheed/Northrop that Elon deserves all the praise in the world. In their eyes, Elon is "selflessly" dedicating his time and money to "saving" the human race by making it multi-planetary. The OP calls anti-Elon people "cultural authoritarians" fueled by "billionaire-hate" who want us to be "imprisoned on this planet forever".
Imprisoned on this planet???????
Are you fucking kidding me? Every good thing a human being could possiby want is on this planet. What's on the moon? Grey rocks. What's on Mars? Red dust. There's nothing out there. There's really nothing in space worth having. If you're not happy on earth, that's not a problem with earth, that's a problem with you (or the social or economic structure around you). Moving to a new planet is not going to solve your self esteem problems. That whole thread is just full of so much bullshit.
Well, there's H3 on the moon and tons of useful metals in asteroids. If we could figure out an automated way to mine these, it would eliminate the need for the ecologically damaging and exploitative extraction of resources from here on Earth.
Like Musk is a piece of shit, and his worshippers only like him because they think he's some kind of techno-messiah who will solve all their problems with ScIEnCE! But let's not write off space exploration in its entirety as useless.
deleted by creator
Y'know, I don't really trust our civilization to responsibly extract anything from anywhere, and tides seem kind of important