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<blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 8340660" data-attributes="member: 7028554"><p>Cards on the table: I’m a big-time dork too. Aren’t we all, as a baseline requirement of even skimming these forums?</p><p></p><p>more cards: I’ve interviewed Musk a couple of times, including for an article on space tourism, which ran in the lead up to Virgin Galactic’s initial proposed launch date for passengers…before a lethal test flight scrapped everything for years, a brief but pertinent detail that’s almost never include in the gushing coverage of Branson’s dumb flight.</p><p></p><p>The point that article centered on was what you’re presenting—that space spending is space spending, and accelerates progress toward economic and research benefits the likes of which we can’t even imagine. I bought into it at the time. Let these rich dummies pave the way for real progress.</p><p></p><p>Years later almost nothing could be more irrelevant, in my only slightly educated opinion. We are way beyond the inflection point for the climate crisis. What you’re talking about is extremely cool, but to me you’re telling me all about the super dope and innovative roofing materials I can install while every other house in the neighborhood is engulfed in flames and my vinyl siding is starting to melt. We are in an emergency, and I simply don’t care about some 100-year-long series of moonshots that all require billions or, in the case of space-based solar power, trillions of dollars, all of which will result in slightly more power or efficiency here and there, and all of it decades too late to prevent the inexorable slide toward global devastation.</p><p></p><p>Branson can’t stop what’s happening, or what’s coming, on his own. Neither can Musk or any of these unknowably weird and helplessly out of touch tech bros. But they can try. They can do their best. And if they won’t, then I and all the other hopeless chumps reserve the right to hate them for their ostentatious nonsense and idiotic notions of off world colonization. To hell with their bragging rights—they only get those if you cooperate.</p><p></p><p>Last thing: Years ago at an event for the magazine I worked at, where Musk was a presenter, I asked him how he expected to deal with the currently lethal problem of radiation for those in transit to Mars, and living there (without being confined to underground facilities, wholly defeating the purpose of colonizing another planet given all the caves you could live in here), and his answer was that someone else would solve the problem. </p><p></p><p>All hail our genius savior.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grendel_Khan, post: 8340660, member: 7028554"] Cards on the table: I’m a big-time dork too. Aren’t we all, as a baseline requirement of even skimming these forums? more cards: I’ve interviewed Musk a couple of times, including for an article on space tourism, which ran in the lead up to Virgin Galactic’s initial proposed launch date for passengers…before a lethal test flight scrapped everything for years, a brief but pertinent detail that’s almost never include in the gushing coverage of Branson’s dumb flight. The point that article centered on was what you’re presenting—that space spending is space spending, and accelerates progress toward economic and research benefits the likes of which we can’t even imagine. I bought into it at the time. Let these rich dummies pave the way for real progress. Years later almost nothing could be more irrelevant, in my only slightly educated opinion. We are way beyond the inflection point for the climate crisis. What you’re talking about is extremely cool, but to me you’re telling me all about the super dope and innovative roofing materials I can install while every other house in the neighborhood is engulfed in flames and my vinyl siding is starting to melt. We are in an emergency, and I simply don’t care about some 100-year-long series of moonshots that all require billions or, in the case of space-based solar power, trillions of dollars, all of which will result in slightly more power or efficiency here and there, and all of it decades too late to prevent the inexorable slide toward global devastation. Branson can’t stop what’s happening, or what’s coming, on his own. Neither can Musk or any of these unknowably weird and helplessly out of touch tech bros. But they can try. They can do their best. And if they won’t, then I and all the other hopeless chumps reserve the right to hate them for their ostentatious nonsense and idiotic notions of off world colonization. To hell with their bragging rights—they only get those if you cooperate. Last thing: Years ago at an event for the magazine I worked at, where Musk was a presenter, I asked him how he expected to deal with the currently lethal problem of radiation for those in transit to Mars, and living there (without being confined to underground facilities, wholly defeating the purpose of colonizing another planet given all the caves you could live in here), and his answer was that someone else would solve the problem. All hail our genius savior. [/QUOTE]
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