…the we choose to go to the moon speech and just say ‘i think we should spend billions of dollars of public money to fund a art project’
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2. some people think that even manned spaceflight is recognized for what it is (i.e. no useful concrete outputs) it will still inspire people to work on projects that have useful concrete outputs i don’t think human minds work that way, and don’t have much else to say about it
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3. spinoff technologies! okay it is true that if you try to solve a complex technical challenge you will often end up developing stuff along the way that’s useful for other things. this does not imply, however, that manned spaceflight specifically…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies …
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…is a good way to generate spinoff technologies. a lot of the stuff you’ll develop is only useful for manned spaceflight, so if you want to pursue this strategy to develop technologies, it probably makes more sense to pursue different goals, the solving of which will entail…
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…more crossover with directly useful technologies. and if for some reason manned spaceflight is uniquely fertile ground, you don’t actually need to go to space. apparently NASA developed a lot of useful water filtration tech in the course of designing and building the ISS
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guess what? you can design your space station water filtration system, and then *build it on the ground*. same result, way cheaper. a lot of stuff got developed during the apollo program, which some people think is apparently a good reason to put people on mars
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here’s an idea: develop a detailed plan for a mars mission. enumerate every technical challenge you’ll have to solve. look for the ones that will be useful on earth (e.g. a lot of food preservation stuff was developed for apollo)
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then, you develop that stuff, and don’t bother building the rockets or shipping everything to mars
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spinoff technologies are a wonderful side benefit if you’ve decided it’s worth it to do something anyways, they are not a convincing reason to do the thing in the first place
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i generally agree with this along with like 50% of its conclusions but i do want to note that this is what musk is doing except hes also building the rocketspic.twitter.com/GXhOSjk6o8
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I'm regularly confused that most people don't see that Tesla and Solar City were obviously part of the mars colonization plan from the start.
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Also the boring company
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