If you really want to see another galaxy I promise you that you'd have better luck doing that putting those resources towards studying medicine and developing renewable energy
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honestly in 2020 I hate space travel so much, what a fucking boondoggle just to stroke a couple nerds' intellectual boners
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I love space but some people have this idea human space exploration will by necessity drag society into the preferred future of their imagination when it seems like we would be better off putting those resources to work fixing society and the planet we're already on instead.

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That's the problem with futurism in general. People think the more our lives superficially resemble Star Trek, the more progress has been made, and if we can just crack AI or space exploration then all our problems will be solved... decades of dystopian sci-fi notwithstanding.
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ya just know that if anyone makes it out to space before we have a revolution they're gonna colonize it
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I mean, you *know* that’s Elon Musk’s plan
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One manned mission costs as much as dozens of robot probes, and we can send probes a lot farther than Mars. It's wasteful and risky to do manned space missions with current technology.
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Endless colonialism! Our RISK maps will not be complete until we can fight over pointless terrorory on Jupiter!
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