I hope we can get spectroscopy done on the tail! It would give us a really unprecedented look into the material composition of other solar systems.
Serious question, not a poke. I'm not an astronomy nerd and would love some education from a hn friend.
These things are really unique and it's not like we'll have any other way to explore something up close from outside the solar system
The list will be endless and all of these people are right. Their world views are no less correct than yours and their interpretation of how our shared resources should be spent equally correct.
This is why capitalism is so effective. This is why Monarchies we’re so effective. These systems exist to channel the theoretical 1,000,000 humans away from spending all of their resources advancing 1,000,000 goals a single unit and instead advance one goal a million units (monarchy) or 5 goals 200,000 units (capitalism).
Speaking more to the topic at hand, it’s great that we were able to make the progress that we have and let’s be honest that’s owed almost entirely to the moon race going public (same way gluten free everything is available now making the people that really need it very happy because they never would have received nearly as many units of productivity spent on advancing their problem if it hadn’t gone mainstream for a time).
The economic model pertains to a whole different plane, isn't it?
Monarchy and capitalism are both drivers of aggregating individuals labor into a small number of goals. Socialism and Democracy are both sources of driving individual labor into individual pursuits.
Only the eye of the beholder can determine what is good or bad. A socialist democracy is most likely incapable of putting a man on the moon. A capitalistic monarchy is most likely capable of solving poverty within its borders (be careful what you wish for as you may be determined to be part of the cause of poverty and excised for the good oc The many).