What's with this recent hopium trend where people seem to think that we'll become a space-faring utopia?

  • Zoift [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The worst thing granpap ever did (besides all the imperialism & genocide) was preach these stupid fantasies of moonbases & fully sentient robots next door to a room full of people have to calculate trajectories on slide-rules.

    You know why Von Braun & Co's Nazi asses had these dreams of massive orbital habitats? Because they could predict the future of telecoms, but not the existence of transistors. They imagined fully staffed orbital switchboards where your twitch streams would be manually connected by operators.

    But somehow this got lost over the last 80 years and now for some reason people keep holding out for Heinleinian dreams of vacation restaurants in Venusian cloud & orgies with incestuous gingers in O'Neill cylinders.

    Fuck you. The future of space industry is robot probes and weaponized mirror-shades when global warming gets unignorable. The timeframe for planetary colonization, fusion power, and zero-g gangbangs was 50 years ago and its too late now.

    • theboy [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I will always hold out hope for orgies with gingers

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      They were not the only ones. We forget how the Soviets were the ones to first popularise and develop these ideas of humanity as a space faring race, with the stars the natural habitat of New Soviet Man. The Nazis stole and twisted them to further their Fascist Imperialism.

      Tsiolkovsky invented technological space travel, and Korolev and Glushko were his direct apprentices. Soviet rockets put men in space. Soviets made the first probes and the first long term habitats. While the USA wasted its time and money on grandstanding spectacle the Soviet Union was pioneering long term habitation of space.

      We should not cede this arena to Musk and his ilk.