This #culturaltrendsetter liked "Ad Astra" imdb.com/title/tt293551…
I had questions about the plausibility of what I saw. Many others did as well google.com/search?q=fact+…
Regardless, I think it captured a big limitation on human colonization of the solar system and beyond: our psyches. I get moderately depressed with lack of sunlight in winter. What would happen to me traveling 9 months in the total black of space? Add in the solitude, the
alternating boredom & adrenaline rushes, the artificial sleep cycles, the lack of gravity, etc. I'm fine right here on Terra, man. Let's do better to keep life going here.
One other thing. The plotline is based on the search for extraterrestial life. #ancientaliens
Discovery of life elsewhere, especially intelligent, conscious civilizations, would certainly upend all of our inherited belief systems.
At the same time, not discovering
Discovery of life elsewhere, especially intelligent, conscious civilizations, would certainly upend all of our inherited belief systems.
At the same time, not discovering
life elsewhere, which of course would never prove that life doesn't exist elsewhere, would dampen enthusiasm for more recent cosmologies. So the stakes of #SETI are high.
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