libertarian copium vs cosmic radiation, bone density, spinal degeneration, eye degeneration, gestation or childbirth, lack of magnetosphere, space madness. Place your bets.
Ooh! "Agentic!" That's today's $200 techbro word! And bonus points, because it is also the name of a random AI company, because of course it is!
Imagine wanting to live in a tin can and pressurised suits for the rest of your life. Assuming they are part of the singularity cult.
Moron doesn't realize that nobody has free will.
I firmly believe that anyone who thinks they'd be better off in space should be allowed to go there.
Famously North America just consisted of hard vacuum and deadly radiation before the agentic settlers arrived to make their fortune, so I don't see any reason why the same thing shouldn't happen with space.
If you don't love Earth, I'll help you pack.
Seriously. Get the fuck off my "backwater planet" and let us live in relative peace for a change.
Honestly. Let's make this a federal program. We'll send billionaires on one-way trips to colonize Mars. And we'll just keep doing it. We'll just keep throwing billionaires at Mars until we actually get a functioning Mars colony, or we run out of billionaires. I would be fine with either outcome.
They're so full of themselves I think it would work
This week I saw a hooded warbler (
bird) and an indigo bunting, a bird so beautifully blue it actually made me tear up. I'm not in some sort of pristine protected rainforest, I'm literally in a mid-sized American city. We're so unbelievably lucky to live on such an incredible planet.These motherfuckers can go enjoy their barren hellscapes - to quote Chris Packham about space - "it's just gas". Freeloading libertarians are more than welcome to go and die by themselves.
uncritical support to this person boiling off into space
This is your brain on essentialism, treating a complex thing like "agency" as something innate or immutable.
Bonus: LMAO this guy considers running a 9:30 mile on a treadmill to be elevated aerobic exercise that leaves you "tired during the day", and 30 minutes at an 8:40 pace to be "more exertion". Motherfucker I do 30 minutes of your "Zone 2" every day on actual terrain just to get to my manual labor job, and I'm not even pushing myself. You would never be physically fit enough for space.
i can row more miles in a single set than this guy can run in a week, smh my head
Space must be ruthlessly regulated and governed by the most hardened war communists so these parasites never in a million years can bring their rancid ideologies to the endless bounty of space, IT DIES ON EARTH
Lol, like their backstabbing selfish asses could ever make it any significant distance away before killing each other somehow.
If there's one thing Posadists have right, it's that interstellar travel is impossible under capitalism (assuming it's even possible at all).
I 99% agree, but we cannot afford even a 1% chance of these scum dragging barbarism into the stars
If space commies fuck up even once, these monsters will try to create an eternity of carnage, not by building it, but by stealing it
high agency/competence individuals looking at space and wondering if their fear of the single most hostile environment to terrestrial life stopped them from "achieving" "greatness"
versus "high" "agency/competence" individuals looking at space and wondering if staying on the "backwater province" would have stopped the water boiling off their rapidly desiccating eyeballs during a hab failure in hard vacuum
agentic and non-agentic
like context, I too am excited to see this person boil off
this is really just rehashing the whole npc meme thing except trying to sound smart
it's straight up "the ubermenschen must be provided with lebensraum to flourish away from the untermenschen and also north america was very empty and none of this involved a series of genocidal conquests and the enslavement of entire populations, it was all competence and rugged frontier entrepreneurial spirit" but deliberately obfuscated because if he just said all of that people would call him a nazi
trying to sound smart by aping marketing terms from the latest slop machine hype cycle, no less
Ultimately it's an economic thing, you know? Like the early American settlers did have a religious aspect to it as well but many moved because they recognized that their material status would be better in the colonies, or even that they literally couldn't afford to keep living in their home country. I wouldn't exist if Irish landlords hadn't jacked up rent prices.
I can't imagine a point where moving to the Moon or Mars makes economic sense, certainly not in any of our lifetimes.
Right? The only reason the new world was economically viable was because indigenous people molded the land to produce as much food as possible, and developed trail/road systems. It is very easy to create a self-sufficient colony in those conditions. This does not exist in space. Any project to live on another planet would require a government to take on huge expenses to build the infrastructure. Idk if anywhere else in the solar system could ever be viable for much other than robots doing resource extraction
They would be labor colonies for manufacturing, mining, and research. Like what we have in the remote parts of the world now.
Me living my best life on a backwater township on a backwater Earth while Elon and co. out on Mars poke a hole in a water filtration line and die slowly from constantly drinking their own unfiltered pee over and over again.
Eye degeneration? I've heard of all the other adverse health effects from space, but not this one. Sounds interesting, please tell us more
https://www.aao.org/eye-health/news/nasa-space-flight-impacts-astronauts-eyes-vision
"The study examined seven astronauts in depth and found eye structure and vision abnormalities in all of them. The most common structural change was flattening of the back of the eyeball. Changes in the retina, the light-sensitive area at the back of the eye, and the optic nerve were also found. In some astronauts these changes persisted long after their return to Earth."
"In a separate NASA survey of 300 male and female astronauts, about 23 percent of short-flight and 49 percent of long-flight astronauts said they had experienced problems with both near and distance vision during their missions. Again, for some people vision problems persisted for years afterward."
They call it Space-flight associated neuro-ocular syndrome
This person just spouts OG American nationalism (Puritans escaping a morally removed Europe for the "untamed" new world), but applying it to space.
backwater province
Sure, but will there any nature be left or just one trailer park planet?
MmHMM, sure love taking all of the creativity, compassion, and curiosity that humanity is capable of and, instead, existing as a virus