I notice I'm a little skeptical about Bill Gates' maths... partly because of the implied assumption that it is for the world to provide 'business leaders' with solutions to their problems.
I would suggest that if I were a 'business leader' it would indeed be a failure on my part if I didn't look in detail at the inconvenient truths, and find realistic and creative action to take...
"Business leaders" fully supporting and upholding a complete mortatorium on space exploration would be a good start. The likes of Elon Musk trying to suggests that he's a green revolutionary while sending celebrities into space 🤯
According to the authority on all things 'space' that is William Shatner, the plan is to move all our polluting activities to other planets ........... 🤯
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"Business leaders" fully supporting and upholding a complete mortatorium on space exploration would be a good start. The likes of Elon Musk trying to suggests that he's a green revolutionary while sending celebrities into space 🤯
According to the authority on all things 'space' that is William Shatner, the plan is to move all our polluting activities to other planets ........... 🤯
the first of Elon Musk's rockets jettisoned one of his cars to float in space forever.
I'm a fan of space exploration and therefore know that comparing Elon musk to Jeff bezos is like comparing Manchester City to Scunthorpe rovers (no offence to Scunthorpe fans). For one musk actually makes it into space, two he is vastly reducing the cost of space flight by simplifying everything and using a pretty sustainable reuse phylosophy and thirdly he is helping other people to expand our knowledge of space by launching satellites and in the future big missions of exploration. I don't get the argument that billionaires should be concentrating on this planet and not trying to push technology further elsewhere. Yes vanity projects like firing pointless celebs above an arbitrary line are silly but firing satellites that monitor the health of our earth etc aren't. We need to push boundaries to come up with new ways of maintaining what we have. You could use formula 1 as an example, a completely pointless sport that most don't care about but apparently they develop alot of new innovations for the everyday cars we drive.
Yes vanity projects like firing pointless celebs above an arbitrary line
are silly but firing satellites that monitor the health of our earth
etc aren't.
That's why I said we should have a mortatorium on space exploration - that is - outside our atmosphere. Satellites are important for comms etc. Finding other planets to screw up and exploit should be way off the table now. We have to deal with our own planet's health now. Fix it, keep our eyes and our budgets here - deal with the massive problems we have before spending billions zooming off elsewhere.
The only way our fragile species will continue is if we can spread throughout the solar system. We might be worried about climate change but you only have to look at the damage covid has done to see how on a knife edge we are and that's without even considering ww3. As a species we are never going to act in the best interests for humanity unless it benefits us personally (and I do realise that stopping climate change is a benefit but for most the only thing they care about is money/lifestyle).
Exploration grows our species, without it we'd still be living in caves or heading for a climate catastrophe with no knowledge it was even happening. Science isn't sticking your head in a bucket, it's figuring out how everything works and giving us a greater understanding of how to solve certain problems. It might not seem very worthwhile looking at distant stars but it's taught us so much about the history of our solar system which is used to understand our world.
It's surely how we use the knowledge we have already gained that matters ?
Knowledge is wonderful but unless we make use of it, it's irrelevant. I guess we all know how to make use of our knowledge re making money and improving our lifestyles but we are now seemingly up shit creek without a paddle.
Obviously depends how far into the future you want to look but if we have a problem here after all this time, are we really fit to even think about taking our mindset further afield ?
After all, what is so different about the human race that we imagine we are immune from eventual extinction ?
Even respected scientists like Brian Cox, have suggested we move heavy industry to the moon, where there is no atmosphere to ruin, and allow the Earth to recover.
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I don't get the argument that billionaires should be concentrating on this planet and not trying to push technology further elsewhere. Yes vanity projects like firing pointless celebs above an arbitrary line are silly but firing satellites that monitor the health of our earth etc aren't. We need to push boundaries to come up with new ways of maintaining what we have. You could use formula 1 as an example, a completely pointless sport that most don't care about but apparently they develop alot of new innovations for the everyday cars we drive.
That's why I said we should have a mortatorium on space exploration - that is - outside our atmosphere. Satellites are important for comms etc. Finding other planets to screw up and exploit should be way off the table now. We have to deal with our own planet's health now. Fix it, keep our eyes and our budgets here - deal with the massive problems we have before spending billions zooming off elsewhere.
Exploration grows our species, without it we'd still be living in caves or heading for a climate catastrophe with no knowledge it was even happening. Science isn't sticking your head in a bucket, it's figuring out how everything works and giving us a greater understanding of how to solve certain problems. It might not seem very worthwhile looking at distant stars but it's taught us so much about the history of our solar system which is used to understand our world.
Knowledge is wonderful but unless we make use of it, it's irrelevant. I guess we all know how to make use of our knowledge re making money and improving our lifestyles but we are now seemingly up shit creek without a paddle.
Obviously depends how far into the future you want to look but if we have a problem here after all this time, are we really fit to even think about taking our mindset further afield ?
After all, what is so different about the human race that we imagine we are immune from eventual extinction ?