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Why pursue space exploration if all we can do is send robots there? The only meaningful thing for humanity is sending Humans to places. Gathering more resource
by fodkodrasz 20d ago
Why pursue space exploration if all we can do is send robots there? The only meaningful thing for humanity is sending Humans to places.
Gathering more resources so the overlords can have more humans enslaved with shinier golden handcuffs, who can consume more so number line goes up is not a meaningful goal to pursuit, and robotic-only commercially rationalized spaceflight has only this to offer.
Scientific discovery, so we can have better simulations about things of no use or effect on us? Why? Taking people to places and utilizing the resources there, and building a more resilient humanity is a worthy endeavor, and while robots are useful for that, ultimately human spaceflight (or interplanetary/interstellar travel) is he goal, not having only a space industry.
- m4rtink 19d agoWould not surprise me if people & robots did end up merging together in the long term for easier living in space.
- dfgknionio 20d agoWhat is the point in having a colony of maybe dozens of people completely dependent on shipments from Earth? Building a self-sustaining colony is so far outside the realm of possibility that it isn't worth thinking about, and building a symbolic outpost serves no practical purpose.
- WalterBright 20d ago> What is the point in having a colony of maybe dozens of people completely dependent on shipments from Earth? The Jamestown colony relied on shipments from England. > Building a self-sustaining colony is so far outside the realm of possibility that it isn't worth thinking about And look at what America became.
- bluGill 20d agoJamestown went to a place where humans had lived for thousands of years. They used shipments from England, but they didn't need them at any time.
- WalterBright 20d agoThe colony would have failed without those shipments. They desperately needed them.
- verzali 19d agoAnd yet other people were managing to live there just fine without shipments from Europe.
- m4rtink 19d agoYou have to starting somewhere.
- WalterBright 20d ago> Gathering more resources so the overlords can have more humans enslaved with shinier golden handcuffs Very funny!