• BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    20 days ago

    Why would people want to focus more on things we can actually do right now and would improve our lives instead of completely unfeasible pipe dreams? I don't understand.

    • witx@lemmy.sdf.org
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      20 days ago

      Isn't there space for both? Why not try multiple avenues? Why have this negative view on everything? Wouldn't you say the airplane and the car have tremendously improved humanity, even with all its downsides? Or the cellphone?

      I bet at the time of their inventions you would be opposing it because "billionaires are bad and this industry is going to explore the working class". Guess what? Yes billionaires are bad and explore people and you (all of us) should be fighting against that, not against scientific and engineering inovation.

      • frauddogg [they/them, null/void]
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        20 days ago

        Isn't there space for both?

        No. Flatly. You do not get to eject any more human garbage into the cosmos from which we came-- you already have WHOLE FUCKING ARRAYS of busted up satellites and pieces of rockets and a bunch of other more shit floating in high orbit that you have no plans to go retrieve, mind you; fuck would you propose making even more for? Other than the narcissistic techbro flex, I mean?

        • LilyRose1919@lemmygrad.ml
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          20 days ago

          There is no way you are this upset about piece of metal existing on Mars, littering the rocks. You're upset about something else and transferring it.

          • frauddogg [they/them, null/void]
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            20 days ago

            It physically enrages me every time I look into the night sky ad have to question how much of what I'm seeing up there is just dead space junk. I grew up considering the cosmos more beautiful, and honestly, more sacred than even the ocean that perpetuates our planet. So no, it actually does anger me that people just brazenly throw around ideas of doing what they've already done to Earth to other planets, and honestly fuck you for trying to minimize that rage.

            Are you a psychiatrist? Do you have ANY kind of accreditation or doctorate to make such a call? I don't know how you got a lemmygrad account; but I can only take it to mean the moderation there really is slipping.

            • LilyRose1919@lemmygrad.ml
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              20 days ago

              It physically enrages me every time I....

              I'm starting to suspect it doesn't take much to physically enrage you 😄

              • UlyssesT
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                15 days ago

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          • REgon [they/them]
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            19 days ago

            Starlink pisses me off to no end. The beautiful night sky is ruined by disposable trash that fucks up the ozone on re-entry just so some dork can go soypoint-1soypoint-2 about having slightly faster internet. The niche use cases where mostly already covered, now it's just been made accessible to consumers who don't ever need it.

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        20 days ago

        Every industry exploits the working class under capitalism.

        Are we colonizing planets or building habitats in space right now or any time in the perceivable future, though? No, so beyond a fun thought experiment or sci-fi material, it's not an idea worth giving any serious thought towards.

        • witx@lemmy.sdf.org
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          20 days ago

          Right because innovation materializes itself when we want ... We just flicked our fingers and airplane, cellphone and others just appeared.

          Who are you to tell what we should or should not pursue?

          • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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            20 days ago

            Are we pursuing colonizing planets or building space habitats in any serious way?

      • xj9 [they/them, she/her]
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        20 days ago

        The problem isn't technological though. We could start fixing our climate mistakes today without inventing a single new thing. All of the obstacles to actually addressing the climate crisis are sociopolitical.