Number of manned orbital launches by year, 1961-2022Submitted by firefly-metaverse t3_10oayad in space
ChronicBuzz187 t1_j6hv3ot wrote
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>And it is not beyond the realm of possibility that they say, 'Keep out, we're here, this is our territory.'"
The small-mindedness of this.... going to the moon or mars not to advance the entire species but to say "Look, we're the best and smartest humans on earth because we somehow made it here" when you really just build upon the work of generations that came before.
And we always have to "beat each other there" because... well... we don't really know except so we can bang out chest and tell everybody how great we are. No real point in it but that never prevented us from doing it, right?
bookers555 t1_j6m7eri wrote
Because that's how the human brain is wired, it works best under competition, it's simply a matter of evolution.
If the first space race hadn't ended we would have seen Moon bases a long time ago.
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