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We really didn’t even care about space, until we decided spaceflight might lead to easier control of the strings of power through use of icbms or even manned sp
by kjkjadksj 3y ago
We really didn’t even care about space, until we decided spaceflight might lead to easier control of the strings of power through use of icbms or even manned space stations. Then it became an appreciable fraction of our GDP overnight, from no polling of voters only under the pressure of our unelected military authority.
- mistercow 3y agoFor space exploration sure, but astronomy was a pretty big deal for centuries before space flight was a remote possibility. But I think the fact that the stars are staring you in the face on a regular basis when you look up has to have been a big influence there. For our hypothetical tidally locked culture, the stars would be, to most people, more akin to the cosmic microwave background. They’d be something scientists could take pictures of and form theories about, but totally removed from everyday experience.