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Re:SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says by Seanambers on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @03:04PM (#33441276)
This kind of thinking is so defeatist - why do anything at all then? And why is it the pro space people who need to stay on earth and save it, what about everyone else?

Human history is progress and this is progress.

“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

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Re:SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says by Moissanite on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @03:27PM (#33441605)
Defeatist? Elon is the one wanting to give up on this planet and start from scratch.

> And why is it the pro space people who need to stay on earth and save it, what about everyone else?

If we limit "pro-space people" to the billionaires sucking up all the oxygen in the room with their dick-waving, the "why do they need to save it" is obvious - they have the money to make a positive difference. Failing that though, if Papa Musk wants to blast himself off to Mars and die of radiation sickness, he's welcome to do so.

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Re:SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says by Seanambers on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @04:00PM (#33442109)
Elon's main argument is to become a multi planetary species, he's not arguing leaving earth for good at all.

Money does not magically fix people however much you want to believe that.

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