The Artemis 2 flyby of the moon was really cool. But the photos of the moon really reminded me how absurd it is that a dozen obscenely wealthy bastards are pushing us to live and work in a deadly airless ugly desert instead of preserving the miraculous little oasis in space that we already have.
It’s more than that. I see it as insurance for humanity if we started permanently settling the moon. Then not even an asteroid could wipe us out.
Asteroid hitting seems quite less concerning when mad actively lingers over our head
if the permanent moon settlement was sustainable otherwise it dies just shy of us dying.
A moon base could not be truly self sustaining for a long, long time, if ever. Probably never, definitely not within say 500 years.
So if Earth goes, the moon base is definitely gone too. There is no saving humanity without saving Earth.
I agree.
Another way that I like to describe this is that almost nothing could make the earth less hospitable than the moon or mars already are. Asteroid strike? Mars’ thin atmosphere is even more vulnerable. Climate change? The moon swings between -170C and 119 C each month. Nuclear war? Try living under constant cosmic radiation in a pressurized habitat that could be completely destroyed by a few small conventional explosives instead of a nuclear bomb.
If we had the ability to make a self sustaining colony on mars we’d be able to restore earth’s biosphere or make self sustaining arcologies or bunkers.
Seeing even just the moon (have managed to see a few other stellar objects) through a telescope is awesome. Haven’t checked out the pics yet. Getting to see something far away really puts things in perspective. Billionaires only have power because we let society run this way (mean sort of anyways), they are nothing but a mote on tiny mote getting their power. We need to be better as humans and society.
I’ll even say use binoculars you can see craters on the moon, more with a telescope though. That’s another solid world but only related to us cause it’s our moon. Check out Jupiter or Saturn sometime, it’s so satisfying if you can find them, the rings on Saturn which may appear like one of those cheesy bouncy balls with something to stand on, but it’s another freaking planet. And our system is a barely a mote in the galaxy let alone the universe. We are fighting each other for random crap when we need to look out there for improvement.
I get sad thinking about how much conflict we have as people over the tiniest issues. Also looking at stuff outside our planet is fucking awesome.
What is the top one?
A mars colony tourist trap being built in Turkey (a rendering of it? unclear) https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/turkish-town-to-open-touristic-mars-colony/2024847
I was wondering why there was parking on mars.
You made the top one look too good
I’ll be honest, I thought the top one was an ‘eco village’ in construction.
