The Chinese come to the rescue of NASA and the movie literally concludes with one of the American heroes fist-bumping a Chinese astronaut on a joint mission back to Mars. It's a sad reminder of how bad the new cold war has become in just a few years.
2015: :wholesome: We can explore space together! :solidarity:
2022: President Xi is going to invade Taiwan at any moment LAUNCH THE NUKES NOW! :guts-rage:
:sadness:
Colonization and communism are incompatible. Just because we can launch a rocket into space does not mean we should. Space colonization is just an endless cycle of raping the natural resources of the cosmos to sustain unsustainable human growth. We need to embrace an antinatalist approach to space, research is good, learning is good, going up there to live and breed is not good. Anyone born in space will have to deal with higher rates of cancer and deformities, you cannot consent to that. Oh and there’s the fact space would not be available to the vast majority of people, there would be nothing equal about who gets to go up, it’s either the mega rich or the most physically and mentally capable which would mean the vast majority of people would not benefit from it in any way, it would be eugenics under any circumstances. The earth has an incomprehensible carrying capacity, if humanity is concentrated entirely on the planet earth all can be equal and equitable.
ok but if nothing lives there that seems fine?