Reusable rockets, in particular.
Imagine having a reusable car in a world where they were all disposable.
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Lawnman23@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
What the F is every corporation’s boner with rockets? 🚀
papertowels@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Because the last stage of existence on this planet. Will be febel plans to try and colonize other planets. Because our planet will start to poison us as a defensive mechanism. All of these Corporations need a plan to get off planet.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Imo it’s a good thing tho. Spreading our civilization across multiple planets is the only way to guarantee long long term success. Obviously we should also fix the climate change issue (and many others). But still, being spread across the solar system would give our species redundancy. An extinction event on earth like a large meteor strike would no longer be the end.
Crikeste@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Well good thing it will never happen. ☺️
Imagine trying to undo thousands and thousands of years of evolution surrounding…. Earth’s gravity.
But you go ahead and fantasize about us destroying all the planets in the universe. After all; we’re the only thing destroying ours.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Call me an optimist, but I still hold the hope that we can one day do better as humanity than we do now. Humanity has become a “better” species throughout its existence overall. Even a hundred years ago we were much more horrible and brutal than we are now. The current trend is not great, with climate change and far-right grifters taking control. But I hold hope that in the end this is but a blip on the radar. Horrible for us now, but in the grand scheme of things not something that will end humanity. It might in the worst case set us back a few hundred years.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
While what you said is true,
i guess that most people’s motivation is rather the economic benefits. Think of it this way:
The 1960s space race created jobs all across the US and inspired a generation of scientists.
Mars settlement could do the same, but bigger. At least that’s the idea.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
It would take a lot to make Mars more habitable than Earth. This isn’t about colonisation this is simply that it’s cool to build rockets.
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, it’s easier to terraform … Planet Earth!
Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s the only planet we can terraform, we are nowhere near able to terraform Mars, not even theoretically and disregarding cost.
Maybe in a century we can. But only maybe.
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Feeble? But I think you meant futile? Idk.
coolmojo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yes, let spend money to fuck up other planets as well instead of saving this one. /s
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s exactly what they will say.
Tja@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
The planet isn’t doing anything, we are poisoning ourselves. Or as lemmy puts it “big evil corporations (which we support everyday because it’s cheaper than buying local/sustainable) are poisoning us”.