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VelvetRemedy said:

The scifi-brained Manifest Space Destiny mindset is creepy.

Earth is a perfect garden, possibly the one place in the universe where humans and animals can thrive (or even survive.) Why, exactly, do we have to have a "collective future flying among the stars"?

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Because being reasonable and cleaning your room is haaaaaaard, but playing space cowboy is fuuuuuun.

The Arsian population is generally pretty concerned about climate change, ecosystemic collapse and technofascism, but there is a portion whose boner for space colonization is so strong that it seems to deprive their brain of oxygen.

And don’t tell me this isn’t the time and place to talk about this, or that these rockets have nothing to do with those issues. It is always the time and place, because the situation is so dire that we can’t afford the carelessness, and those rockets are a part of the problem.