Can someone explain how humans might make this uniquely hospitable planet uninhabitable, but somehow not do the exact same thing to far, far less hospitable planets?
Please, game that out for me.
Please, game that out for me.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1383280704042127363
Saw a tweet yesterday comparing SpaceX to the Dutch East India Company... as a good thing.
I had to literally put my phone down. The sheer inaccuracy of the comparison (um, what resources are there to plunder on Mars?) was exceeded only by its historically-illiterate amorality.
I had to literally put my phone down. The sheer inaccuracy of the comparison (um, what resources are there to plunder on Mars?) was exceeded only by its historically-illiterate amorality.
There's a real kernel of truth there though: claiming, occupying and despoiling any perceived vacuum within our grasp is a consistent human drive, as is the need to dress it up in the latest flavors. Space gives this drive new scope, while "saving" us from its consequences here.
The latest *ideological* flavors.
We can't bring civilization to the savages anymore, so now it's about saving the human species (the loud part) from the consequences of our own actions, so we can continue those very same actions indefinitely (the quiet part).
We can't bring civilization to the savages anymore, so now it's about saving the human species (the loud part) from the consequences of our own actions, so we can continue those very same actions indefinitely (the quiet part).
Exploration and colonization always has the same results: either the colonizer kills and/or despoils what it finds, or what the colonizer finds kills it. There's not a lot of evidence or logic to suggest that this won't be the case on other planets.
Let's do a better job here.
Let's do a better job here.
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