“A considerable part of the #space fandom is experiencing a specific kind of grief when the thing you most enjoyed is now associated with other things that are irretrievably dark.
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“A considerable part of the #space fandom is experiencing a specific kind of grief when the thing you most enjoyed is now associated with other things that are irretrievably dark. We haven’t yet found a civilized way to discuss it, so we’re just distancing ourselves from the thing we enjoyed.”
https://spacenews.com/the-grief-of-a-fandom-on-starship-musk-and-losing-the-spark/
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“A considerable part of the #space fandom is experiencing a specific kind of grief when the thing you most enjoyed is now associated with other things that are irretrievably dark. We haven’t yet found a civilized way to discuss it, so we’re just distancing ourselves from the thing we enjoyed.”
https://spacenews.com/the-grief-of-a-fandom-on-starship-musk-and-losing-the-spark/
@JohnBarentine A powerful article—one I can fully endorse.
IMHO, Elon Musk promotes a form of longtermism that is fundamentally inhumane, as it disregards the time scales that are meaningful/accessible to us as human beings. Earth is a complex system that cannot be reliably predicted—something we've known for over a century. As an alternative vision of science fiction, I see "Dune" by Frank Herbert as a compelling counterpoint. In this article, I explored this idea.
