I hear you. I think the creative minds promoting space exploration can be so singleminded they forget how massive and undiscovered our own planet is, not to mention how much damage we’ve already done to it. I guess it’s man’s nature to ponder life on other planets, but goddamn I wish we could at least focus on containing all the friggin plastics we’ve unleashed on this place. if humans didn’t “imagine” we would not have progress I suppose…
librarypunk1974 t1_j90vawm wrote
Reply to ELI5 Why are we more interested in colonizing extremely distant, completely inhospitable planets and moons than we are in making more parts of our own planet livable? by [deleted]
I hear you. I think the creative minds promoting space exploration can be so singleminded they forget how massive and undiscovered our own planet is, not to mention how much damage we’ve already done to it. I guess it’s man’s nature to ponder life on other planets, but goddamn I wish we could at least focus on containing all the friggin plastics we’ve unleashed on this place. if humans didn’t “imagine” we would not have progress I suppose…