[ExI] Spaceflight: The only valid case for waiting

[Giulio Prisco]

On 2020. Sep 28., Mon at 19:54, Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 7:30 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat
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> <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
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> > here before moving up there. If so, we must promise ourselves great
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> > adventures in space as soon as we have solved our urgent problems here
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> > on Earth.
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> https://turingchurch.net/spaceflight-the-only-valid-case-for-waiting-586e932da831
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> Knee-jerk response: That's never really governed anything else. No one
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> has said, for instance, we should put AI, nanotech research, or life
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> extension research on hold until we solve more pressing problems. In
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> fact, the usual way it works is people do research along many lines
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> and innovations and progress happen in many areas, sometimes only
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> distantly related. In our current situation, there's war, civil
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> unrest, a burgeoning police state, but still SpaceX and other ventures
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> are moving forward on the spaceflight front. Would you say all space
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> stuff has to stop until those other problems are dealt with?


Dan, I totally agree! I’m saying that some people don’t, and wondering what
to do if they get their way.



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