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Anyone has any idea why we need to risk human life at double the cost of what we can do with robots and drones? It used to be we needed to send people to outer space out of technological reasons, now is no longer the case.
We have not had a human being out of low earth orbit since 1972.
The future of space exploration is robots and robotic craft.
How about we take responsibility for what we're doing here before engaging in these escapist Trekie fantasies? Unless we start taking responsibility for our dysfunctional behavior as a species we'll just destroy whatever planet we infect.
The problem is the distribution of intelligence. We have the top 5% of the bell curve for intelligence and the bottom 40% of the bell curve for intelligence.
The exceptional can't wait for the bottom of the bell curve to lift themselves up by their bootstraps.
Ain't never gonna happen. It will always be like this.
Musk has never been the best at setting realistic timelines. I do think it will be a reality someday, but not by the 2030's and not in the numbers he's talking about. Once someone is able to make serious profits by enterprises to Mars, moon, or asteroids, that will change everything. That may be what Musk is counting on.
What we need are less people on planet earth. If we can send a bunch to outer space exploration without the hope of coming back, then mission accomplished three-fold: less people here, exploration occurring, knowledge growing by the day.
What we need are less people on planet earth. If we can send a bunch to outer space exploration without the hope of coming back, then mission accomplished three-fold: less people here, exploration occurring, knowledge growing by the day.
I'm sure the guy who put zika virus in a mosquito is thinking about what you just wrote.
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