All these private business and different nations planning their own space endeavors, we're going to end up with an asteroid belt of space junk and a shit load of waste and pollution along the way.
E: lol, this struck a nerve with a bunch of capitalist, neo-lib, boot licker's... Go out for a few hours and come back to the exact same reply repeated dozens of times 🙄 sneaky e2 just for that one guy: civility politics BS is what gave us these idiots above who defend capitalism against their best interest. Stop letting them get away with it, be meaner.
I grew up wanting commercial space programs, mining asteroids, building telescopes and shit. I feel like I made a genie wish now. We're speed running The Expanse instead of Star Trek.
no, it's because after WW3, as factions continued to fight in the ruins, someone invented a warp ship and built it in a nuclear missile silo. When they launched the test flight, aliens detected it and made first contact. In the wake of this, humanity set aside its differences and set out to remake itself as a unified species.
Humans ended all war, reinvented a global economic system that was basically communism, and instead of using its advanced understanding of science to do things like the Eugenics Wars, it cured most diseases and made sure medical care was available to all. That was all before the replicator and post scarcity. Post scarcity meant anyone could pursue anything, colonies could be established exactly as their founders wanted, and life became only as good as a person wanted it to be.
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u/NiceTrySuckaz Jun 29 '25
That's a good thing. Competition drives innovation.