separately, let's lose this "we" frame. space accounts for a small fraction of global spending. it has nothing to do with our inability to realize whatever version of utopia it is you're selling, and "we" don't have to go anywhere. if you don't want to go to mars, stay home.
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Can we stop with the colonizing and perhaps undo some of the last couple hundred years of colonization?
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How about we worry about making our planet function
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sounds like something you care about, and should definitely *yourself* focus on rather than mars
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If we want to colonize effectively, we need to move past rockets. The technology is here today but locked up in USAPs in the govt. "We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects" - Ben Rich, CEO of Lockheed Skunk Works
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I agree we should absolutely keep working on this stuff — and all of the new thrust tech is really exciting, at least theoretically — but we can and should also start colonizing now
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We have the tech to colonize Mars, but interstellar stuff does require one of the above. Chemical propellant will not take us to the stars. Colonizing America and developing steam power are not contradictory goals.
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It’s wild how underrated humanity’s technological capability is, just because it’s not finished and viable for mass adoption.
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We have had the technology to upload ourselves for five decades?! No one tells me anything!
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