To find Space and Astronauts really boring

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Just that really. In my workplace there is a bunch of influential people who are really excited about Space and the potential of exploration, the idea of going there blows their mind and there's a lot of energy and excitement about it. If you don't like it then you probably won't be thought of as intelligent or interesting.

Unfortunately for my career I just couldn't care less. I have tried to care but it gives me that cold, bored, uneasy feeling that I used to get on a Sunday evening.

Anytime I stop to really think about the subject I always find myself slowly slipping into an existential crisis I don't find it boring as such but tiny mind can not comprehend.

hmm, as a cancer patient, I would rather money is spent on planetary defence than on finding a cure for cancer - it is thousands of times more important

The human race will still exist without a cure for cancer - the human race could be destroyed in a single meteorite strike without space exploration and planetary defnece.

By all means be interested in other things, you dont have to be interested, but you should understand it is one of the most important investments in the future of all species on earth that we have

To be honest and I've got the influences of star trek, Stargate sg1, farscape, warhammer 40k philosophy,

I think space and the larger galaxies etc will be the stuff of the most beautiful dreams and the stuff of the most horrific nightmares. Then there will also be temporal mechanics for humans to master too.

I have a science degree and I find space quite boring too! It’s amazing to look up at the stars and think about the vastness of the universe and consider the possibilities of what else could be out there, but I find the idea of space exploration in our own solar system quite pointless and wasteful. I don’t believe we should be out in space potentially contaminating the place with earth microbes and rubbish without really understanding the implications.

we dont contaminate anywhere with earth microbes, we dont put any organinic material into space, and it is all unmanned missions are sterile

I second this recommendation if anyone wants to kickstart caring about NASA / space it’s a really engaging drama. Best thing on TV last year!

Astronauts are supposed to be boring. I remember some programme or other talking about it. They get picked because they're not excitable so that in an emergency they just get on with their job of fixing the hole/fighting off the Romulans/whatever.

Wouldn’t the sensible thing be to invest all that money and expertise into stopping human destruction and keeping the earth livable? And to develop some sort of deflection system to re-direct asteroids that endanger earth?

I’m really interested in space and astronauts. I’m old enough to remember the first moon landing, perhaps that makes a difference.

I get completely freaked out by it tbh, yes yes to existential crisis

I'm not that interested in space, but I am interested in physics/nature of reality. I think I lost interest when I realised as a kid all those photos of nebulae and galaxies were "artists interpretations".

Not necessarily. They also like people who can “sell” space exploration and educate about it. Chris Hadfield is one of these.

Well thanks to the James Webb telescopes we can see real photos of them now.

Space makes me feel distinctly uneasy.

There's just so MUCH of it.

Really? I'm the opposite. Stem degree, stem job so love science. But if you sat me down, told me that space was never ending, or mirrored or in a vacuum and I start to think to hard at what's at the edge of space, I'd literally explode. Like my tiny little human brain would crash. I can't handle it. I think a bit then have to stop saying, woah! Don't get there, you can't handle the truth 😁 friends husband is a astro physicist. So intelligent. Nothing more sexy than a man who loves science. She is very lucky. It all blows my mind

I may be wrong but I'm sure the consensus amongst people who know well and best are sure it is too late for this in a long term way.

I really hope you are indeed wrong.

Really? Will have to look it up. I don't understand people who are reallygrounded in materialism and are certain about everything. We are sentient meat bags spinning on a rock, we know nothing.

You just made me think of my best friend, who is dead now. He worked on the space ship Challenger that blew up shortly after launch and astronauts died. He never really forgave himself but he was a brilliant friend and a top man. He lived for astrophysics and space.

It's fine to be bored by whatever, but there's a lot that goes on now in space that we all benefit from without realising.

Communications satellites, collation of data- for example there are some up there that can more accurately predict weather which helps prepare for adverse weather, can locate where water is under the surface in Africa to help people access water etc- loads of useful tools.

Some medical breakthroughs have stemmed from space science as well, through collaborations with organisations, scientists working on whatever finding possible uses outside of space and sharing that with medical researchers etc.

It's far more than people just going up and wandering around in space, although personally I feel uneasy about some of it!

You’re not unreasonable. I suspect our species will go extinct long before we develop the technology to have any truly meaningful or far-reaching exploration or transportation in space.

It is also a long-running joke that space seems to attract more pretentious men with misinformed ideas of their own intelligence than any other topic.

I love Star Wars.

It's the difference between big picture,wider issue stuff v smaller, closer to home stuff. Similar to "why are we sending money to xyz when we have problems here?" Or "why are we worrying about environmental issues when there are children going to school hungry ?" . We need people to care, even if we don't.

I love all things space, especially all those images from the James Webb telescope. It makes we think about how the universe could have started or has it always been here and how it all works and honestly I think wondering about all that leads to wondering about if there's a god or not, and how'd we all get here and is there life on other planets and will we ever know, and what happens when we're done here, and won't it be so so cool to find out one day the answers to all of this.......so yes, I love all things space, including astronauts, astrophysicists, astronomers, philosophers, and artists. I wonder how someone isn't interested in all that. Yet I hate football (American) and can't see why anyone thinks that watching it could possibly be fun. Maybe if I analyzed football more deeply I'd appreciate it more, but probably not.