• Katana314@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I feel like FFXIV Endwalker sort of mocked this; the idea that our future lies in the stars.

    We won’t get a better chance than here. Most sci-fi books expect space colonization within this millennia, which is a bit of a pipe dream and glosses over issues of atmospheric livability.

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      1 year ago

      Heh Sci-Fi talks a lot about atmospheric livibility, like if anything it talks way too much about it.

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      1 year ago

      Oh I know that a “future in between the stars” is going to be extremely complicated and hard, if possible at all. Going to live on Mars is already close to a pipe dream yeah.

      But that doesn’t mean that space exploration and travel itself is bad. There are loads of reasons why it’s good and necessary and we should invest more in it; take money from the military instead.