Man, what a great article. I have always thought this. I lost track of the red herrings people have been falling for and this is another. Elon Musk is going to Mars, not the government. They can't even replace the space shuttle. They can subsidize it however. No, it is not orange man. Everybody jumps on this one. We are doomed, we can't change, we must consume the earth until we all die, their is no hope for humanity! OMG, the money, please don't make me give up the stuff, and the moneeeey! I have been watching Elon. Come on. Say it. We suck and we are going to kill ourselves. We must go forth, to new lands, for we are a conquering species, or ...... we turn on ourselves! Give me a break. Things are definitely going to change here. Earth can't support this many people. Are people going to die? Yeah. We do what we can. Mars isn't in the bag. Who told you that? We can't even live in Antarctica with weekly supply ships, a million dollar habitat, and if something goes wrong? Mars wants to kill you. Space wants to kill you. It is no way solved. You have to cope with what is to come. Don't wait for orange man. There is $$$ in denial.
With this line of thinking people would've never sailed out of Europe to discover new territories and human civilization would've never become what it is now. Why bother exploring if we still have problems here at home?
Surprise! There is always problems. If you wait till you fix all of them before moving forward you'll never get anywhere.
Also, if you're so concerned about NASA budget, why doesn't the US military budget, which approximates 1 trillion, bothers your that much? Those are for sure money spent for nothing. I'd better see countries spend their military budgets on space than on weapons.
As for those 'climate scientists', as long as i remember they were always predicting some catastrophic events because of the climate change and stuff. Well, after all, they need those grant money to survive and who would give them some if the matters wouldn't be 'urgent'?
I wouldn't comment on your capitalism attacks because they are just ridiculous. I like how relatively rich (to the rest of the world) westerners complain about capitalism which actually have given them everything they have. Being Russian i know where you socialist thinking leads to. If you would open any history book for once you would know it too.
Orange Man Bad! lol
Man, what a great article. I have always thought this. I lost track of the red herrings people have been falling for and this is another. Elon Musk is going to Mars, not the government. They can't even replace the space shuttle. They can subsidize it however. No, it is not orange man. Everybody jumps on this one. We are doomed, we can't change, we must consume the earth until we all die, their is no hope for humanity! OMG, the money, please don't make me give up the stuff, and the moneeeey! I have been watching Elon. Come on. Say it. We suck and we are going to kill ourselves. We must go forth, to new lands, for we are a conquering species, or ...... we turn on ourselves! Give me a break. Things are definitely going to change here. Earth can't support this many people. Are people going to die? Yeah. We do what we can. Mars isn't in the bag. Who told you that? We can't even live in Antarctica with weekly supply ships, a million dollar habitat, and if something goes wrong? Mars wants to kill you. Space wants to kill you. It is no way solved. You have to cope with what is to come. Don't wait for orange man. There is $$$ in denial.
With this line of thinking people would've never sailed out of Europe to discover new territories and human civilization would've never become what it is now. Why bother exploring if we still have problems here at home?
Surprise! There is always problems. If you wait till you fix all of them before moving forward you'll never get anywhere.
Also, if you're so concerned about NASA budget, why doesn't the US military budget, which approximates 1 trillion, bothers your that much? Those are for sure money spent for nothing. I'd better see countries spend their military budgets on space than on weapons.
As for those 'climate scientists', as long as i remember they were always predicting some catastrophic events because of the climate change and stuff. Well, after all, they need those grant money to survive and who would give them some if the matters wouldn't be 'urgent'?
I wouldn't comment on your capitalism attacks because they are just ridiculous. I like how relatively rich (to the rest of the world) westerners complain about capitalism which actually have given them everything they have. Being Russian i know where you socialist thinking leads to. If you would open any history book for once you would know it too.