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Cancer research often gets the spotlight due to the emotional nature of death and disease, but that doesn't make space research less useful to humanity as a who
by JTbane 8y ago
Cancer research often gets the spotlight due to the emotional nature of death and disease, but that doesn't make space research less useful to humanity as a whole.
- overcast 8y agoI never said it was less useful, but we need to focus on protecting this planet first. There won't be one left by the time we even have the capacity to get to others.
- jcadam 8y agoI'd like to think we've built a civilization that's able to pursue more than one goal at a time, but maybe I'm an optimist.
- overcast 8y agoClearly we can't handle it.
- fapjacks 8y agoLife will go much smoother and make a lot more sense if you stop thinking of groups of people as individuals with individual memories, skillsets, capabilities, and experiences. "We" are capable of anything you've read about in the news or in a history book, from putting precision machines on other planets to unlocking our genome to changing the temperature of our planet to systematically eradicating entire ethnicities. Every individual is capable of handling those things, which means that so are "we".