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Love your perspective. It reminds me of the technological advances from the space race to the moon as well. We aren't taking casual trips up there ever, but the tech that came from it was revolutionary

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i feel like this is all propaganda to convince tax payers to fund this stuff. it's like we never invented anything worthwhile at all if it wasn't used for war or space. maybe we should just try? try spending some money on good for a change and we'll see if good comes out of it.

Yeah, the obvious reason why funding spaceflight yields useful technology is that we also fund e.g. laser technology. We can fund science research without also spending billions of dollars going to the moon.

But will the money actually go there ? The track record is not very good so far in this regard.

Displacing all coal- and oil-generated power with renewables in a short enough time to fend off climate catastrophe would be a good choice.

If it is propaganda, it is to detract from the fact that we could actually be on Mars already, if we hadn't spent a Trillion dollars a year bombing the shit out of everyone for the last two - or so - decades ..

People tend to forget that we are still murdering each other over this planet.

Getting to Mars would either be a solution to that problem, or just an extension.

I guess, therefore, it matters who gets there first.

(See also: Psyche 16)

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