The Expanse was mentioned elsewhere on this thread and it still gets me how the dream of colonizing Mars has, since the Golden Age of Science Fiction, been this openly hostile "Why don't we just go into space and leave all the shitty people on Earth" fantasyhttps://twitter.com/catvalente/status/1371887414785028099 …
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And how bad shit has to get if you're willing to leave the only planet that has, like, water and food and cute kittens and shit to live somewhere that doesn't even have air Just because it's far enough away that people can't follow you
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Star Trek kinda softsoaps this a bit: there's an acknowledgement that humans screwed up Earth pretty bad, so bad that the aliens who spoke with whales was willing to wreck the planet because we drove them to extinction.
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and low key *after* Earth got cleaned & fixed up, only those who were down with the quasi communist governance of Earth stayed- people who could not take it went off to colonies and space stations.
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Perhaps we shouldn't run to Mars. We have most of the technology and space has virtually unlimited resources to do so much better. We just need to look past our biases.https://medium.com/predict/3d0eabe2f2e0?source=friends_link&sk=56f2debf965dff44f0423d91f7310f1c …
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