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I stepped over human feces yet again this morning, how about some infrastructure to deal with that? "Incredible civilization" you say? For who?

cm2187 7y ago
I get your point but if you look at the number of technologies over the second half of the XX century that spanned from research on planes and space, it is still indirectly beneficial for us mere earth people.
- oldjokes 7y ago
  Which technologies? Teflon? Tang? Now that we have more and more of our country living either in prisons or under bridges than at any point in time, which of these amazing space technologies will most benefit the prison population/mentally ill the most?
  - cm2187 7y ago
    First result on google and if you include planes I am sure there are many more: https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/tech_benefits.html https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/tech_benefits.html
fastball 7y ago
Are you proposing technology that eliminates the need for humans to defecate?
farresito 7y ago
Sounds like a very interesting idea for a startup to solve. I will still find Blue Origin a bit more interesting though.
numlock86 7y ago
There are very close to zero human feces to step over in space (yet), so maybe this is of your interest?
adrianN 7y ago
Perhaps talk to your local politicians about that. I'm not sure why Bezos should be responsible for that.
Veen 7y ago
I’m not sure how you expect Bezos to solve mental illness and drug addiction.
bambax 7y ago
It's not enough that the human race is in the process of destroying the earth. It also wants to destroy space! The only thing that's incredible about "civilizations" is that they're incredibly bad.
kitsunesoba 7y ago
This sounds a lot like the old fallacy of, “don’t try to advance spaceflight until humanity has solved all of its problems on Earth”. Problem there is, we’re never going to solve all of our problems on Earth, so if we hold ourselves to that, we’re just going to get caught in a stagnant loop which could ironically lead to less of said problems being solved. Humanity works best when we have many projects running in parallel. Rocket propulsion engineers and civil engineers do very different things and it’s not going to help anybody if the former gets shoehorned into the job of the latter.

cm2187 7y ago

I get your point but if you look at the number of technologies over the second half of the XX century that spanned from research on planes and space, it is still indirectly beneficial for us mere earth people.

oldjokes 7y ago
Which technologies? Teflon? Tang? Now that we have more and more of our country living either in prisons or under bridges than at any point in time, which of these amazing space technologies will most benefit the prison population/mentally ill the most?
- cm2187 7y ago
  First result on google and if you include planes I am sure there are many more: https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/tech_benefits.html https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/tech_benefits.html

fastball 7y ago

Are you proposing technology that eliminates the need for humans to defecate?

farresito 7y ago

Sounds like a very interesting idea for a startup to solve. I will still find Blue Origin a bit more interesting though.

numlock86 7y ago

There are very close to zero human feces to step over in space (yet), so maybe this is of your interest?

adrianN 7y ago

Perhaps talk to your local politicians about that. I'm not sure why Bezos should be responsible for that.

Veen 7y ago

I’m not sure how you expect Bezos to solve mental illness and drug addiction.

bambax 7y ago

It's not enough that the human race is in the process of destroying the earth. It also wants to destroy space! The only thing that's incredible about "civilizations" is that they're incredibly bad.

kitsunesoba 7y ago

This sounds a lot like the old fallacy of, “don’t try to advance spaceflight until humanity has solved all of its problems on Earth”. Problem there is, we’re never going to solve all of our problems on Earth, so if we hold ourselves to that, we’re just going to get caught in a stagnant loop which could ironically lead to less of said problems being solved. Humanity works best when we have many projects running in parallel. Rocket propulsion engineers and civil engineers do very different things and it’s not going to help anybody if the former gets shoehorned into the job of the latter.