[ExI] Spaceflight: The only valid case for waiting

[Giulio Prisco]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 9:47 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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> "Promise ourselves a great adventure"?
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> Such promises are made to be broken, and too many know it among those who would need to be appeased.
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> We can never "solve our problems down here", in a permanent and complete sense.  Declaring that something must wait for that to happen first is literally declaring that said thing must never happen.
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> This applies regardless of what the thing being deferred is, but especially when that thing could help address "our problems down here".  Spaceflight, fusion power, you name it.

Adrian, I totally agree with what you say here. This is a worst-case
strategy to consider if we are forced to abandon ambitious human
spaceflight programs (for you guys in the US, that could start
happening in a few weeks). All I mean is that, IF there's no way to do
real space in current political conditions, we must not give up hope
in the future but keep the fire alive under the ashes.

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> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 12:30 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> Spaceflight: The only valid case for waiting
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>> I'm not that pessimistic, but perhaps we must solve our problems down
>> here before moving up there. If so, we must promise ourselves great
>> adventures in space as soon as we have solved our urgent problems here
>> on Earth.
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>> https://turingchurch.net/spaceflight-the-only-valid-case-for-waiting-586e932da831
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