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Interstellar Flight: Perspectives and Patience

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96 points JPLeRouzic | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.748s | source
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lofaszvanitt ◴[26 Jun 25 12:20 UTC] No.44386711[source]▶
Everyone suffers from the sci-fi delusion. We can't solve the problem of large-scale wildfires (sending helicopters and planes to drop water on forest fires is not a viable solution) and we can't even do large-scale terraforming on our own Earth. We have to use containers to transport liquids and solids from one place to another. We cannot control the weather, yet people fantasize about travelling into space. It's delusional, isn't it? It's borderline ridiculous.

And we have these human-centric systems that are unusable and inefficient, not to mention a terrible economic system that rewards the virus-like entities in society.

We aren't going anywhere.

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1. silverquiet ◴[26 Jun 25 17:00 UTC] No.44389176[source]▶
I would say worse than that, we are doing the opposite of large-scale terraforming to create a planet that will be rather inhospitable towards the end of this century and even less so in the centuries that follow. I think the sci-fi delusion is a hold over from a better time; the heyday was probably the 50's-60's when scientific progress seems like it was much greater and was actually able to translate into benefits for people that were noticeable.
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2. lofaszvanitt ◴[26 Jun 25 20:12 UTC] No.44390825[source]▶
Yeah, and nobody cares, nobody seems to notice, seemingly people who have the power to steer things the right way are totally lobotomized. It's just like in Cyberpunk, where the power couple's brain is getting rewired by "entities", because they go against the flow.