Pretty good litmus test tbh. Anything more than "I guess it'd be cool to see the earth from orbit but that's about it" usually turns into this weird space eugenics type shit.

Unless your answer is "it'd be cool to live in that anarchist space station/meteor wreckage thing from that one episode of cowboy bebop where they meet that chess master" then going to space is cool

[–] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 40 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There's two types of Space Guys

The ones that want to be an officer aboard some space navy warship fighting against aliens and doing space eugenics and colonizer shit

Or the ones who see things like Firefly and The Expanse and just wanna chill doing cool outlaw labour shit in space

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or the ones who see things like Firefly and The Expanse and just wanna chill doing cool outlaw labour shit in space

obama-spike see-you-space-cowboy

[–] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

That too

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago

There's also a lot of math and science nerds that want to infodump about cycler orbits and play a lot of kerbal space program

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

those things are very much not as different as you'd like to think