Is space exploration pointless?
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>nearest star is 4.12 ly, or 70,000 years by our fastest available tech
>even the fastest modes of space travel would take generations, putting aside logistical issues and violating the laws of psychics
>even within our solar system, colonisation of Mars seems pointless, no resources, nothing of value, you’d just be living in a pod forever which I imagine would become highly tedious after the initial buzz of living on another planet wears off
>terraforming, assuming it’s possible, would be a delicate project spanning at least millennia
Is space exploration just pop science, or perhaps cope by wizards unwilling to accept that the survival of our species is fundamentally intertwined with the habitability of this planet, which is about to enter a death spiral thanks to our neurotic perusal of progress which has persisted since the Enlightenment?
>even the fastest modes of space travel would take generations, putting aside logistical issues and violating the laws of psychics
>even within our solar system, colonisation of Mars seems pointless, no resources, nothing of value, you’d just be living in a pod forever which I imagine would become highly tedious after the initial buzz of living on another planet wears off
>terraforming, assuming it’s possible, would be a delicate project spanning at least millennia
Is space exploration just pop science, or perhaps cope by wizards unwilling to accept that the survival of our species is fundamentally intertwined with the habitability of this planet, which is about to enter a death spiral thanks to our neurotic perusal of progress which has persisted since the Enlightenment?
