Sorry, not sorry Elon.
I agree if they mean it in the Elon "let's heckin colonize Mars and build an epic bitcoin utopia" sense, but I don't see the issue in wanting to explore space out of a sense of curiosity and wonder.
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More often than not, I think you might end up with the first type of dude on your date these days. 
William Shattner went to space and it just made him sad.
William Shatner wanted to say something about that but then 
sprayed him with a popped champagne bottle because all he got out of the experience was a reinforcing of his ghoulish intentions.
"Wow, that's the planet we own. And none of those people get to go up here like I do. This rules!"
because your bowls need gravity to work on their own
Well i won't tolerate such disrespect of a hero of humanity and champion of socialism 
so I don't think me and Ms Rodrigo would be a good fit. Just canceled my upcoming date with her.
Yuri Gagarin was a hero of the people, not an affluent aspiring space tourist.
Compare the Nolanbrained manfest destiny 
of typical space techbros to this.
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She sounds boring as hell
Elon is that you?
It's crazy some people are THAT obsessed with the guy they equate him with the entire space industry.
The space industry is basically filled with ElMos;
, the space walk billionaire guy that owns a defense company that specializes in airstrikes, virgin galactic virgin-Cola guy.
You can bring up NASA all you want, it doesn't change the fact that they're (sadly) a minority in an industry that is being overtaken by techbros with no actual scientific education. They just throw money at it and get starving professors and graduates to do the actual work.
I think the billionaires are the minority considering there is the CNSA, Roscosmos, ESA, and the ISRO
Focusing purely on NASA is very USAmerica centric
It's the only argument I hear whenever it's brought up online.
I agree with government space agencies, I hate the space industry however. Unfortunately the future is going to be the global encroachment of these private companies into the public sector. Similar to what has happened to NASA.
I really only see China pushing back against this.
How DARE you!
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
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
Or the ones who see things like Firefly and The Expanse and just wanna chill doing cool outlaw labour shit in space
That too
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
those things are very much not as different as you'd like to think
"Me born off planet catching strays" 
Though I mean.... I am full of myself
This is good to know, I have a date with her later
Uh, Olivia Rodrigo is only 21 and the HexBear age of consent is 32 
Imagining a guy who doesn’t want to colonize space because there’s no aliens to genocide
Go the Exo-Squad route. Colonize Mars and genetically engineer a race of superhumans to survive the harsh conditions. Then become terrified of your Mars-Engineered Children, reclassify them as a hostile alien species, and spend the next five years doing interstellar pogroms in cool mechs.
Damn, that's the one and only reason I wont date Olivia rodrigo 
Char Aznable, holding frustration in 
: Well, it's not like I'd be interested in someone whose soul is held down by Earth's gravity anyways.
Yuri Gagarin was handsome enough, IMO
Earth from orbit is supposed to be one of the most beautiful things a person can experience, who wouldn't want to do that
Earth from orbit is supposed to be one of the most beautiful things a person can experience
For most with a functioning sense of awe and wonder, that is true, but then some come back not only not changed, but worse.
Fuck that guy fr
how about olivia ridriGO to the POLLS 
It does often signal a bit of "the problems on Earth don't matter and there's nothing and no one there that I care about" selfishness and a whole lot of juvenile escapism on top of that, and that's ick for a lot of potential dates.
I know that astronauts used to be very attractive to potential dates, but actual astronauts aren't exactly a big part of the contemporary computer touching aspiring space tourist dating pool now.
It does often signal a bit of "the problems on Earth don't matter and there's nothing and no one there that I care about" selfishness and a whole lot of juvenile escapism on top of that
That's my unironic take as well.
I think it's not ethical under capitalism to be throwing this much money into space while people's basic needs aren't met.
It would probably take a luxury space gay communism type thing for me to visit other planets, because even if a socialist society where people's needs are met hypothetically would want me to assist their space program, my skill set would very likely be more useful here on Earth.
Even to go to orbit, it would take a fairly advanced socialist society perhaps where orbital flight is a viable means of planetary transportation to the general public to be ethical IMHO
Addendum: This isn't to say that space programs themselves are 100% unethical even under capitalism — they've definitely helped life on Earth so far by necessity of new materials that withstand extreme conditions. Elon's bazinga tourism is 100% unethical though.
There's some space treat defending in this thread that assumes criticisms of billionaire space tourism and futurology grifts are a blanket condemnation of scientific inquiry. That's both bullshit and projection, considering that such treat defenders made the blanket association first here as if it's impossible to separate billionaire space tourists and their whims from scientific inquiry.
This is an excellent litmus test, I'm going to steal it.
Any regular person that cares about space (I'm excluding actual scientists) has 75% chance of being a bazinga brain.
Another litmus test: do you think cryptocurrency will replace regular money?
I want to go to space but only astral projection as a ball of energy or taken on board by a benevolent and highly spiritually advanced race of squid, a second date please miss Rodrigo.
i would rather shrink to a molecular level. now THAT sounds fun
😠
The only non-bazinga space person i know, who is also a (sort of) public figure is Dr. Fatima, and she left academia because it was full of bazinga astrophysicists: https://youtu.be/R7hK5_Rj--8
So yeah, good call Ms. Rodrigo. I like playing KSP and astrophysics is fun, but the beauty in this earth is enough to last several lifetimes, so if given a choice, I'd rather share kinship with what's around here than what's out there.
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It would be dope to hike up a mountain on the moon/Mars. Unfortunately I can't redirect the federal budget to specifically benefit me
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