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What's particulary dystopic about it? Preserving nature is valuable because we rely on the ecosystem, you can't really make that argument for the dead emptiness
by the8472 7y ago
What's particulary dystopic about it? Preserving nature is valuable because we rely on the ecosystem, you can't really make that argument for the dead emptiness that is space.
Ubiquitous space access even is a common theme in scifi utopias!
- Waterluvian 7y agoI think it's close but missing one really key point. Imagine if this was being done by some non profit international consortium funded by many nations.
- sigstoat 7y agothen it would go over budget by 100x, and if it ever did finish, users would be subjected to the intersection of all of those countries moralizing content bans?
- friedman23 7y ago> non profit international consortium funded by many nations that sounds horrible
- mfatica 7y agoIf you've ever looked up at the sky at night in a dark area I don't think you could honestly say it's "dead emptiness". It's fascinating to gaze up at the stars and taking that away would be a tragedy
- the8472 7y agoIt is very dead and very empty. Sure, it looks pretty and is useful for astrophysics. But compare that to the utility of global, low-latency internet.