Prof. Sam Lawler on Nostr: Oh what a beautifully written rant "The fantasy—and it is a fantasy—isn't one of ...
Oh what a beautifully written rant
"The fantasy—and it is a fantasy—isn't one of space travel and exploration and some bright Star Trek future for humanity, but one of winnowing and eugenics, of cold actuarial lifeboat logic, of ever greater reallocation from the dwindling many to the thriving few. That's the world as Elon Musk and his cohort want it; Mars colonization is just a pretext."
https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-marsPublished at
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