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Originally Posted by jaffles
I find it truly fascinating and sadly frustrating. Perhaps conflicting.
On one hand its truly amazing to send humans into space let alone plan to land on another planet. A absolute testimony to human imagination, spirit, effort, commitment, diplomacy and collaboration.
On the other, typical ego driven human behavior. One race trying to beat another spending copious amounts of money on being first, biggest, fastest, dominating etc.
Science got humans into space, but apparently its no good when it comes to the planets climate and eco systems. Humans have already polluted space with copious amounts of litter and waste. Is it just humans working hard on making the next garden of eden another dump? I can't help but wish all that spirit that got humans into space was better used on keeping this planet more habitable.
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This time around it's all about commercial gain. Mining for precious metals and helium-3. If/when it becomes common to travel to the moon, it'll also become another reason to fight amongst ourselves.
