Space sucks, there's nothing even up there. There are plenty of places on Earth that haven't been explored yet, finish with this planet before you start looking at other ones, nerds.
Space sucks, there's nothing even up there. There are plenty of places on Earth that haven't been explored yet, finish with this planet before you start looking at other ones, nerds.
Mining asteroids is based
We don't more junk. We got plenty enough junk on this plannet already. People wouldn't even make anything cool with it. Just more funco pops or some bullshit.
if were doing mining in space it cant be forced upon 5 year old chileren told to dig coltan with their fingernails, also cant justify destabilizing a country and digging up their forests cuz theres juicy lithium under it
we'll find a way. Don't worry about that.
oh you just elected a socialist? we just discovered your country is the ideal landing site for an asteroid containing 1.5T$ worth of platinum
Degrowth becomes possible on earth when industrialization moves to space
De growth is possible now. More possible if we do something about capitism
The quickest way to it is mining asteroids, that and nuclear power. Fight me.
I am with you about nucular power being a good way forward. I don't see how reducing resource prices by flooding the bmarket with space metals would do anything other than create induced demand. Suppose the price of plantim just goes through the floor, they are just going to start making plantnum soda cans just like how aluminum went from a precious metal to a cheap resource.
I am fine with metal overtaking plastic
Probably an improvement all round, but it isn't degrowth and is no way required for making things better.
mining asteroids is cringe
Stalin would shoot people over this dismissal of the next great industrial revolution.
doing something we do on Earth but at much higher risk and cost to the environment so we can make more things to do the same stuff with really isn't an industrial revolution. Let's figure out how to best distribute what we already have, just adding more stuff isn't better.
Oh my god bud you need rare earths you just do unless we are going full bunga unga. How is asteroid mining a much higher risk? Do you think that by landing on a space rock we will inevitably direct them towards earth?
this is true actually, some neanderthal made an iphone in 2008 and we left behind the stone age. there was no technology besides sticks and rocks before that.
ok I wrote this wrong. I meant way higher risk for the humans and expense to the environment. space mining is more dangerous than earth mining because you have to make an environment humans can work in first. It's hard to keep a man-made environment on earth, let alone in space.
It’s the first step towards interplanetary colonialization/ the ecologically controlled some cities humanity will probably have to live in by 2200. Luxury gay space communism doesn’t just happen overnight
I am so deeply opposed to that. Just work with what's already available on Earth. We have done a lot of terraforming already.
That is a ideology of weakness, comrade
No it's not. An ideology dictating the need to grow and develop admits it can't actually meet the needs of its adherents.
….What do you think a five year plan is?
a plan on how to work with what you have to improve your conditions. 5-year plans are not an inherent part of Communism, just a tool to be used sometimes. Stalin's plan wasn't to just add more resources to the Soviet Union, but change how the resources it had were being used.