This is why the prospect of bazinga brains colonizing space is so laughable. An astronaut is basically if you roll together hardships of polar scientist, ocean oil rig worker, submariner, and underwater welder into one, and throw them into an environment that are even more inherently hostile to humanity more than all of those professions combined. For one those people only need to exercise to stay fit, not because their wouldn't literally withers because there's no gravity to hold your muscles together.
Sci-fi nerds everywhere are so high on settler fantasy that they thoughtlessly applies it to space. They're unaware that real life colonizers had it so easy because they're conquering lands that have been inhabited by people for centuries before their arrival. They came to lands where prime farming ground have been well known, where the local dangers have been catalogued, where the water sources have been charted, and the best crops for the local condition have been grown. Obviously none of those would be in space, it would be like if the settlers instead of colonizing fertile ground, instead have to settle the inside of fucking active volcano.
Everything beyond the karman line is not a "virgin" ground for us to exploit, but it's a massive expanse of nature completely alien to life from this planet with its own unknowable history that we must respect. Except that capitalist have as much respect of space as they have of anything else, which is why just like capitalism itself the commercialization of space is doomed to fail.
An astronaut is basically if you roll together hardships of polar scientist, ocean oil rig worker, submariner, and underwater welder into one, and throw them into an environment that are even more inherently hostile to humanity more than all of those professions combined.
Now imagine those rich drunk people think they did a better job than you by paying millions to larp as you for a day or two than fucked back off to Earth.
I know I’ve already said so in nearly every comment of mine in this thread, but I would 100% murder that billionaire. I’ve done a lot of work on my anger issues but there’s a fucking line
Sci-fi nerds everywhere are so high on settler fantasy that they thoughtlessly applies it to space.
A lot of them don't even bother thinking about the settler part in their fantasy. It's Hans Zimmer music as the rugged humanity fuck yeah ubermensch steps onto a new planet, then roll credits.
That's what they think of: a "science victory" like in Civ and related games. It doesn't matter what happens afterward. It's all about the "win." :so-true:
Also, most astronauts quit pretty early, well before retirement, because it's so stressful. This is a job where literally the only way to get it is to devote your life to doing so, but even then, it's too stressful for most.
If our idiot-kings get their way, I highly doubt they will have easy or steady access to people with that level of dedication and competence. Maybe it won't matter to them because it's all about the pomp and circumstance and science as an aesthetic, not a practice.
I think a large part of the grift is talking about going into space and collecting money from credulous idiots (and governments ran by credulous idiots).
I hope they all agree that launching billionaires out of the airlock is the best course forward and continue to do so until the billionaires get the fucking picture
I mean, even setting aside the job stress, they deal with radiation, muscle atrophy, apparently something bad happens to your eyes if you spend extended time in null g. And you're cooped up in a tin can that smells like twenty years of packaged meal farts whenever you're on the ISS.
Seriously. Astronaut may be the most demanding job there is in necessary qualifications, responsibilities, workload, stress etc.
The sheer amount of things you have to be good at to qualify for boarding the ISS is insane, it's the absolute last job some dumbfuck should be able to buy their way into
This is why the prospect of bazinga brains colonizing space is so laughable. An astronaut is basically if you roll together hardships of polar scientist, ocean oil rig worker, submariner, and underwater welder into one, and throw them into an environment that are even more inherently hostile to humanity more than all of those professions combined. For one those people only need to exercise to stay fit, not because their wouldn't literally withers because there's no gravity to hold your muscles together.
Sci-fi nerds everywhere are so high on settler fantasy that they thoughtlessly applies it to space. They're unaware that real life colonizers had it so easy because they're conquering lands that have been inhabited by people for centuries before their arrival. They came to lands where prime farming ground have been well known, where the local dangers have been catalogued, where the water sources have been charted, and the best crops for the local condition have been grown. Obviously none of those would be in space, it would be like if the settlers instead of colonizing fertile ground, instead have to settle the inside of fucking active volcano.
Everything beyond the karman line is not a "virgin" ground for us to exploit, but it's a massive expanse of nature completely alien to life from this planet with its own unknowable history that we must respect. Except that capitalist have as much respect of space as they have of anything else, which is why just like capitalism itself the commercialization of space is doomed to fail.
Now add "chaperone" to the mix
I worked as just a chaperone for drunk rich people for a while and fuck that
Now imagine those rich drunk people think they did a better job than you by paying millions to larp as you for a day or two than fucked back off to Earth.
I know I’ve already said so in nearly every comment of mine in this thread, but I would 100% murder that billionaire. I’ve done a lot of work on my anger issues but there’s a fucking line
I mean it'd be one of the most based actions in human history for the first murder in space to be that of a billionaire.
:sicko-speeeeen:
Yeah that would truly be one for the history books.
A lot of them don't even bother thinking about the settler part in their fantasy. It's Hans Zimmer music as the rugged humanity fuck yeah ubermensch steps onto a new planet, then roll credits.
That's what they think of: a "science victory" like in Civ and related games. It doesn't matter what happens afterward. It's all about the "win." :so-true:
Also, most astronauts quit pretty early, well before retirement, because it's so stressful. This is a job where literally the only way to get it is to devote your life to doing so, but even then, it's too stressful for most.
If our idiot-kings get their way, I highly doubt they will have easy or steady access to people with that level of dedication and competence. Maybe it won't matter to them because it's all about the pomp and circumstance and science as an aesthetic, not a practice.
If that happens, they will learn the hard way that space is very unforgiving and doesn't care how rich you are.
I think a large part of the grift is talking about going into space and collecting money from credulous idiots (and governments ran by credulous idiots).
I hope they all agree that launching billionaires out of the airlock is the best course forward and continue to do so until the billionaires get the fucking picture
I mean, even setting aside the job stress, they deal with radiation, muscle atrophy, apparently something bad happens to your eyes if you spend extended time in null g. And you're cooped up in a tin can that smells like twenty years of packaged meal farts whenever you're on the ISS.
Seriously. Astronaut may be the most demanding job there is in necessary qualifications, responsibilities, workload, stress etc.
The sheer amount of things you have to be good at to qualify for boarding the ISS is insane, it's the absolute last job some dumbfuck should be able to buy their way into