My Trip to Space Filled Me with Overwhelming Sadness

Post by rufus_foreman » Sat, Oct 08, 2022, 6:21 PM UTC

sva_ wrote: post #25

flobosg wrote: post #19

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> You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that, you son of a bitch.” ―Edgar D. Mitchell

Sounds like the effects of LSD.

Post by sandworm101 » Sat, Oct 08, 2022, 6:24 PM UTC

rockemsockem wrote: post #171

sandworm101 wrote: post #103

With all respect to Shatner (first canadian space tourist iirc) I dont take much from these narratives. A rich/famous/connected person does a thing that we all want to do but cannot afford, something that requires insane amounts of energy/pollution. Then they turn around and talk of the profound experience and how it has made them a better person. Big deal. The pubic good is limited to a few interviews and an article…

There's no pollution. New Shepard uses liquid hydrogen and oxygen for fuel, which makes water. No hydrocarbons involved in the launch itself. Fire != Pollution

Post by ethanbond » Sat, Oct 08, 2022, 6:37 PM UTC

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #152

ethanbond wrote: post #78

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Did your country just send soldiers to Syria when it was thriving independent state? Or was it when there was a brutal civil war and the state used chemical weapons against civilian populations?

Yeah, same as iraq had wmds and afghanistan had to be attacked because some saudis were bad pilots. Yes, my country had soldiers in all the mentioned countries too.

Post by ethanbond » Sat, Oct 08, 2022, 6:54 PM UTC

unity1001 wrote: post #94

Roark66 wrote: post #73

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>Somehow occupying sovereign countries and killing kids is a bad thing only when putin does it. If you don't see a difference between a war where soldiers that rape and pillage are criminals in their own country, where questionable decisions that caused civilian suffering are widely condemned, a war that saw very large domestic movement against it as it unfolded and another one where rape, torture, slavery, ethnic ge…

> If you don't see a difference between a war where soldiers that rape and pillage are criminals in their own country All of those are claims that are made by the very ones who lied 8 years about nonexistent WMDs. Moreover, the Ukrainian minister who made those lies up was fired by the Ukrainian government because even the govt. found it way too extreme. She is now busy backstabbing her former employers by saying tha…

Post by loceng » Sat, Oct 08, 2022, 6:56 PM UTC

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I gather that tyrannical forces are something our species will continue to deal with for our evolution. I'd counter that tyrannical forces actually spurs humanity in the right direction. I say this because I have notice over the years that our species have been dealing with this problem since the birth of mankind. This is an observation, not a plug for tyranny.

Tyranny generally results in stagnation. It’s a bottleneck. All the power and decisions reduced to a single individual or group of individuals leaves no room for experimentation and growth. Progress becomes single threaded instead of parallel.