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Re:SpaceX's Texas Rocket Is Going to Cause a Lot More Damage... by bmitc on Friday April 21, 2023 @12:01AM (#35649705)
What are the benefits to humanity of these "experiments", exactly?

As far as I can tell, they are doing nothing but accelerating damage to Earth's environment and ecosystems in order to reach a, quite literally, dead planet. It doesn't make any sense if you step outside of the hype bubble and cult of personality.

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Re:SpaceX's Texas Rocket Is Going to Cause a Lot More Damage... by echelon on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:28AM (#35651113)
All life on this planet will eventually come to an end. We should reach for the stars. Evolve beyond these bodies bound to the gasses and nutrients of our gravity well. Conquer death, explore the universe.

Earth is just an egg, and humans just one step in a longer story that will play out among the stars.

On the geologic scale, everything you and I know is already gone, dead and forgotten. But what comes of our world may endure forever.

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Re:SpaceX's Texas Rocket Is Going to Cause a Lot More Damage... by freejazz on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:50AM (#35653733)
That practically reads like religious prophecy. Yeech
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Re:SpaceX's Texas Rocket Is Going to Cause a Lot More Damage... by echelon on Saturday April 22, 2023 @02:09AM (#35663856)
Nothing religious about wanting more than this short stupid primate life.
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Re:SpaceX's Texas Rocket Is Going to Cause a Lot More Damage... by freejazz on Monday April 24, 2023 @12:07PM (#35689423)
That's actually exactly what religion sells
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