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I agree if they mean it in the Elon "let's heckin colonize Mars and build an epic bitcoin utopia" sense, but I don't see the issue in wanting to explore space out of a sense of curiosity and wonder.

More often than not, I think you might end up with the first type of dude on your date these days.
William Shattner went to space and it just made him sad.
because your bowls need gravity to work on their own

You want to go to space to live in a shitty mars colony and maintain capitalism by exploiting space based resources, I want to go to space so that i can be the first human to meet, fall in love with, marry, and raise a family with my alien boyfriend. We arent the same.

I want to go to space to chop up ships to pay off my debt that I got from signing up for a predatory loan to finance cloning tech so I can chop up ships

Well i won't tolerate such disrespect of a hero of humanity and champion of socialism

so I don't think me and Ms Rodrigo would be a good fit. Just canceled my upcoming date with her.

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Pretty good litmus test tbh. Anything more than "I guess it'd be cool to see the earth from orbit but that's about it" usually turns into this weird space eugenics type shit.

Unless your answer is "it'd be cool to live in that anarchist space station/meteor wreckage thing from that one episode of cowboy bebop where they meet that chess master" then going to space is cool

There's two types of Space Guys
The ones that want to be an officer aboard some space navy warship fighting against aliens and doing space eugenics and colonizer shit
Or the ones who see things like Firefly and The Expanse and just wanna chill doing cool outlaw labour shit in space
- Or the ones who see things like Firefly and The Expanse and just wanna chill doing cool outlaw labour shit in space
- There's also a lot of math and science nerds that want to infodump about cycler orbits and play a lot of kerbal space program
- those things are very much not as different as you'd like to think

She sounds boring as hell

Elon is that you?
- It's crazy some people are THAT obsessed with the guy they equate him with the entire space industry.
How DARE you!

"Me born off planet catching strays"

Though I mean.... I am full of myself

Imagining a guy who doesn’t want to colonize space because there’s no aliens to genocide

Go the Exo-Squad route. Colonize Mars and genetically engineer a race of superhumans to survive the harsh conditions. Then become terrified of your Mars-Engineered Children, reclassify them as a hostile alien species, and spend the next five years doing interstellar pogroms in cool mechs.

Char Aznable, holding frustration in

: Well, it's not like I'd be interested in someone whose soul is held down by Earth's gravity anyways.

he'll go to space to look for space alien girls and get rejected by them on the first date too

Sexpats expanding their infestation to space

Damn, that's the one and only reason I wont date Olivia rodrigo

Yuri Gagarin was handsome enough, IMO

Earth from orbit is supposed to be one of the most beautiful things a person can experience, who wouldn't want to do that

- Fuck that guy fr

It's hard to gauge her reasoning from the tabloid-tier tweeting but I agree with her prognosis. Space tourism in its current state is an extremely selfish endeavour with the resources required to send someone beyond earth's atmosphere, let alone bring them back alive. At worst her heart is in the right space.
- I'm reposting my previous comment on another post about space. Here it is.
  I don't care about space bc:
  We need to save our planet first before we can think about moving anywhere else.
  We have no sustainable human civilizations in Antarctica or under water, we should prioritize building in/on the most inhospitable parts before we think about other planets.
  I honestly don't care about billionaires' pet projects and I don't find any inspiration in their space walks and vanity visits. We know this is all meant for the most wealthy and will not be accessible to the masses (besides the purpose of slave labor). You won't catch me giving a solitary fuck about space when it comes from a scientist's mouth, let alone a politician.
  We have wars and genocides, we have starvation and pandemics of preventable illnesses. We have so much more pressing issues than space travel.
  I stand with what I posted, I really dgaf about space in any way shape or form. It's just bazinga brain shit from A to Z unless you're an actual astrophysicist doing research.
  Edit: I have an amendment for number 2, what I mean is: if we can't even build on Antarctica or underwater, why should anyone believe we are going to build settlements on another planet?
  "I can't lift 45 kg at the gym, but I'm going to try to lift the 90 kg weights anyway."
It does often signal a bit of "the problems on Earth don't matter and there's nothing and no one there that I care about" selfishness and a whole lot of juvenile escapism on top of that
That's my unironic take as well.
I think it's not ethical under capitalism to be throwing this much money into space while people's basic needs aren't met.
It would probably take a luxury space gay communism type thing for me to visit other planets, because even if a socialist society where people's needs are met hypothetically would want me to assist their space program, my skill set would very likely be more useful here on Earth.
Even to go to orbit, it would take a fairly advanced socialist society perhaps where orbital flight is a viable means of planetary transportation to the general public to be ethical IMHO
Addendum: This isn't to say that space programs themselves are 100% unethical even under capitalism — they've definitely helped life on Earth so far by necessity of new materials that withstand extreme conditions. Elon's bazinga tourism is 100% unethical though.

This is an excellent litmus test, I'm going to steal it.

Any regular person that cares about space (I'm excluding actual scientists) has 75% chance of being a bazinga brain.

Another litmus test: do you think cryptocurrency will replace regular money?

This is good to know, I have a date with her later

Uh, Olivia Rodrigo is only 21 and the HexBear age of consent is 32
- Based

I want to go to space but only astral projection as a ball of energy or taken on board by a benevolent and highly spiritually advanced race of squid, a second date please miss Rodrigo.

So there's a chance.

No

At first I was confused, because who wouldn't want to go to space? It sounds like an amazing, majestic and humbling experience. Then I remembered she's probably surrounded by Banzinga cultists who can and will bring up their Lord and Savior Musk if such a question is brought up.

😠

The only non-bazinga space person i know, who is also a (sort of) public figure is Dr. Fatima, and she left academia because it was full of bazinga astrophysicists: https://youtu.be/R7hK5_Rj--8

So yeah, good call Ms. Rodrigo. I like playing KSP and astrophysics is fun, but the beauty in this earth is enough to last several lifetimes, so if given a choice, I'd rather share kinship with what's around here than what's out there.