News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Silicon Valley faces a crisis of nonsense. Parent comment

Re:Silicon Valley faces a crisis of nonsense by palata on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @08:30AM (#37306752)
If you can't realize that we won't make it to that kind of science-fiction idea before we manage to survive on Earth (if ever), then I don't know what to say :-).
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Silicon Valley faces a crisis of nonsense by chriswarbo on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @10:37AM (#37308606)
I assume you mean "survive sustainably on Earth"? That's certainly our most important issue; we'll all be long dead before any off-world settlement could be self-sustaining, either planetary or space-based.

Those things aren't mutually-exclusive though.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Silicon Valley faces a crisis of nonsense by palata on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:12PM (#37313259)
> Those things aren't mutually-exclusive though.

Well space research is not a problem, as long as it is research. My problem is that it is becoming a business ("we want to launch a lot of rockets and make money out of it") behind the excuse of "saving the human species and making colonies on Mars".

The space business is a problem for our objective of "surviving sustainably on Earth" (which at this point is synonymous with "surviving on Earth".

[ Parent | on HN ]