Page 4 | To find Space and Astronauts really boring

PattyDuckface · 2023-04-26T21:10:50+00:00

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.

ladygindiva · 27/04/2023 08:22

KnickerlessParsons · 27/04/2023 08:18

I get sad at the thought of human beings trashing another planet in the same way we've trashed Earth 😢

Same! I want them to leave them be!

Nimbostratus100 · 27/04/2023 09:11

ladygindiva · 27/04/2023 08:11

I agree op. I always wish that the doubtlessly clever scientists involved in space travel would turn their efforts to solving droughts, or other earthly problems and wonder how much good could be done. Space travel feels like a decadent waste of time and resources when people on our planet still still lack access to fresh water/ vaccinations/ food etc.

I don't understand why people don't understand this! space travel is what stands between us and the fate of the dinosaurs. yes sanitation and clean water is very important, but it is not more important than being able to defend the PLANET, the WHOLE PLANET AND ALL LIFE ON IT from an extinction level event!

Nimbostratus100 · 27/04/2023 09:13

QueSyrahSyrah · 27/04/2023 08:13

@Nimbostratus100 I do see your point, but since I don't have any children and am unlikely to have them now, honestly no I don't on a personal level especially care about extinction level asteroids either. Certainly not on as day to day level as I am doing battle with the printer. In half a century or so I'll be gone along with every trace I was ever here 🤷🏻‍♀️

(Just to confirm for the absence of doubt; I am being relatively light-hearted here and in my previous post. I don't give much thought to space on a regular basis, but it's great that people do, and are passionate and incredibly smart and making things happen. Meanwhile us earthly warriors will keep the paper-jams from taking over).

to be fair, paper jams are really annoying...

lljkk · 27/04/2023 09:33

The current extinction risk = US HUMANS. We re destroying our ecosystems. We need to undo that trend & fast or we won't have the resources to think about getting to potentially habitable planets dozens/hundreds of light years away.

On a practical note, we have life on this planet because of complex interacting ecosystems. We need a planet with a magnetic field to retain an atmosphere (Mars is out), not too hot (Venus is out), no existing microbes (our own microbes are toxic enough to us already), but suitable soil to introduce soil microbes that make plant growth possible, and yet the plants need enough atmosphere to not instantly die (from what would otherwise be an unbreathable atmosphere due to no oxygen generators).

It's kind of tricky. It would take hundreds of years to terraform a suitable candidate planet into somewhere humans can migrate to. And more hundreds of years to get a sustainable colony established. We need to prevent the obvious causes of extinction events happening to us in meantime.

LuckyPeonies · 27/04/2023 16:30

lljkk · 27/04/2023 09:33

The current extinction risk = US HUMANS. We re destroying our ecosystems. We need to undo that trend & fast or we won't have the resources to think about getting to potentially habitable planets dozens/hundreds of light years away.

On a practical note, we have life on this planet because of complex interacting ecosystems. We need a planet with a magnetic field to retain an atmosphere (Mars is out), not too hot (Venus is out), no existing microbes (our own microbes are toxic enough to us already), but suitable soil to introduce soil microbes that make plant growth possible, and yet the plants need enough atmosphere to not instantly die (from what would otherwise be an unbreathable atmosphere due to no oxygen generators).

It's kind of tricky. It would take hundreds of years to terraform a suitable candidate planet into somewhere humans can migrate to. And more hundreds of years to get a sustainable colony established. We need to prevent the obvious causes of extinction events happening to us in meantime.

Yes!! Earth is the only home we have, if your home is a tip you don’t move to another, you clean up. We need to invest in doing that, and then just stop destroying/trashing/polluting everything, and stop procreating indiscriminately.

Much of the billions of space exploration money could be used for that, including invalidating and countering the dangerous church nonsense of insisting that birth control, family planning, and abortion is evil, and providing all of the above for free.

Because part of the solution is to empower women by educating them and enabling them to escape from religious patriarchies determined to forcibly control every aspect of their lives and keep them ignorant, barefoot and pregnant.