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Can Space Nerds Get Along?
An anonymous reader writes "The Space Review asks whether space enthusiasts can ever get past the humans/robots and private/government flamewars. The article argues that space politics is a non-zero-sum game, and that space science, human spaceflight and private spaceflight can all co-exist. The debate between space and Earth is resolved in the same way: a non-zero-sum game that supports both Earth projects and space projects."
Um, like, wasn't there a story recently about an explosion at a plant that makes parts for a private spaceflight company that killed two people?
I'll stick with publicly-funded NASA rather than a corner-cutting for-profit space corporation... they tend to have a little less death, tyvm.
Doesn't matter - the Chinese will get there first.
Hey, don't forget SETI vs. the nuts who want to broadcast our position to the Berserkers!
Can space nerds coexist with space fratboys? "NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERDS!"
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Reminds me of the arguments between the flat-earthers and the round-earthers. You know, in an age before the periscope was invented.
Things went on for generations with neither side willing to concede to the other - bikkering and taunting... " The Earth is flat!" The Earth is round!", until finally, the round-earthers gathered together and the Elder round-earthers decided on a grand plan to settle things once and for all.
Their solution? Simple. They would collect all the flat-earthers together in one location, and push them over the edge...
Not until, at least, we have resolved the issue of Green vs Purple debate.
PURPLE!
Reality has a conservative bias: it conserves mass, energy, momentum...
can space nerds get along?
short answer: no
long answer: hell no!
Pirates v. Ninjas
Chuck Norris v. Vin Diesel
Horde v. Alliance
Atari ST v. Amiga
vi v. emacs
Eris v. FSM
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
This behavior is so destructive and egotistical, and is literally holding back the progress of HumanKind, from experiencing the Promised Land of a ROBOTIC WAGELESS ECONOMY.
This reminds me of how much talent is likewise wasted on building/playing TECH-FANTASY worlds when such energies could be spent to build the REAL THING http://teaminfinity.com/robo_real_thing
You have some of the smartest people in the world wasting their flesh CPU cycles playing/building FANTASY games/worlds when they could be building the REAL THING. http://teaminfinity.com/robo_real_thing
In fairness to these people, it is not entirely their own fault, until NOW. Many of them are disillusioned that a REAL ROBOTIC WAGELESS ECONOMY and resultant AGE of RECREATION is simply not possible etc. So they are smart, but jaded. Each of these SMART but JADED GEMS needs to be converted/polished one by one into advocates for the ROBOTIC WAGELESS ECONOMY, precisely because these are the smart people we need, and who can, make it happen, and understand what it will be like, explain it to others, and MAKE IT HAPPEN in as few as 10 YEARS !!!
Also in fairness to my magnificently talented and intelligent colleagues, there is a LEADERSHIP GAP of Gargantuan proportions that is squandering such talent by not providing the infrastructure and initiative to start the ROBOTIC WAGELESS ECONOMY where such talent would be put to best use.
Leadership and high level commitment to the ROBOTIC WAGELESS ECONOMY would end the dis-wars and endless inane conversations, and help launch a revolution at least on the scale of the Maritime Revolutions of the 1500s propelling us into the solar system and beyond with a life style for each of us only the Diocletians and Solomons have experienced.
The Future is already here, just unevenly distributed... THE ROBOTIC WAGELESS ECONOMY NOW! http://RoboEco.com/slash
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