I hate neo-liberalism too, man, but it's not the neo-libs fault that you can't travel faster than the speed of light, that interstellar space is inhospitable to life, and distances between stars are very, very large.https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1340824411100901376 …
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For sure but I don’t know if it’s to further the human cause or to further their own cause. They seem like Uber vanity projects and places where they can define laws and generate fiefdoms
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Donating huge sums of cash to listen for aliens seems a weird way express your disdain for the concept.https://www.seti.org/ata
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That's not exploration. That's investment , on the public dime, in a chance to exploit a new market. Granted, neolibs don't see a problem with that, so...
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It's spelled MANK
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They don't want to find something new. They want to escape the consequences of their actions on earth and it's environment.
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They’re into... monetizing it. If it were exploration for explorations sake they’d be launching probes, not picking up gov contracts for internet satellites or whatever.
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Trying to escape a dying planet and/or exploit space resources is not the same thing as like, funding SETI
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Some of them do fund seti and that's cool, but bezos and musk don't get to steal that valour with their supervillainesque experiments
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