scifi is cool but space as a “frontier” needs to be dispensed with
space isn’t to be “conquered.” triumphalism go away
the vacuum of space isn’t the antithesis of life. spent nuclear waste in the Southwest desert is disruptive to life, human like us and otherwise. it is not a wasteland because it does not exist for our sake or even its own sake. it simply is. so goes for the airless gaps between worlds.
space as an object of conquest and exploitation is Elon Musk technofashy futurist bullshit ideology, yet it is accepted as self-evident by and large by left-wing ideologues as well.
fashy turdboy coward can’t leave his post up so i’ll just say nobody’s crying, but i am keeping in mind whose head deserves to be cracked by a baseball bat
Fundamentally the thing about outer space is that there is a whole fuck of a lot of it, and nobody using it. So if some people want to do things in space, and put buildings on other planets, and have kids on other planets, this can be done in a chill and cooperative manner. This is fundamentally different from conquest, in that conquest pretty much by definition involves people getting involved in someone else’s business and stealing and killing and generally making a mess.
In conclusion, outer space does not have a brain or a purpose, so humans can do whatever they want with outer space as long as they aren’t dicks to each other about it.
