Twongo [she/her]

🙏🙏

yes. space exploration advanced technological progress in breakneck speed and gave us more tools to make our home a better place.

humans want to break new boundaries, crossing the oceans used to be an unprecedented endeavour and after mastering it the whole world the gained ability to interact.

the amount of resources needed to collectively reach for the stars is there and if done properly we can explore space without worsening people’s lives. to put it into perspective: a falcon 9 launch costs about 70 million us $, that’s already cheaper than one f35 or 20 tomahawk missiles.

the space race led to the apollo-soyuz program which invited rivals to work together, there`s a beauty in the fact that the need to explore the unknown and work together can transcend even rivalries. The ISS is a monument to that.

imo we (as in humanity) should continue space exploration, but we should ideally not exploit it for capital gain. we should use the useful technology that comes out of it to make life better on our planet. (e.g. GPS, geostationary satellites and and and…)

sure, this field is currently dominated by a circle of pedophiles and nazis (that nazi part has always been part of space flight history for americans >.> ) but the world is currently changing and i see some hope in chinas rapid advancement in this field. they built the tianggong space station and they invited everyone to collectively conduct research in the future. The Artemis Program has been good so far, only now it’s held back due to private contractors not delivering on the moon landing craft.

i never blocked anyone on lemmy, i think you’d need to actively seek out to harass me to get me to block you.

blocking someone about a disagreement in a silly internet argument makes the small fediverse even smaller for me. maybe the person i argued with while i was on the toilet has the worst political takes but they post beautiful art i wouldn’t wanna miss, that kind of stuff yknow.

i also like drama and some people just like to be constantly wrong or deliberately agitate, which is rather entertaining 😈