Something I have trouble explaining about space travel. Like, if you've read my book, you know I think human space faring is probably not economically valuable. It's not a good use of science dollars compared to other areas. I'm even skeptical of the case for inspiration (it doesn't seem to causally related to more aerospace degrees).
But it's also just really cool. Why don't I feel this way about Antarctica or Seabed exploration?
@ZachWeinersmith part of it for me is that exploration of Earth stuff always comes with a side of “oh no, now that we can get there, how are we going to fuck it up”
Though I’ve started to have that feeling about sending humans to the moon and Mars and such. Like if it was economically viable I’d be kind of pre-grieving the strip mining and the introductions of weird microbes that would mislead us when we tried to understand the history of those places or if there is any kind of life at all already out there that we’d contaminate and harm those ecosystems.
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