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aufbahrung wrote:

Cito di Pense wrote:

aufbahrung wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:Still a waste of time and money.

You could say that of all human activity since living is a terminal condition with absolute uncharted territory at the end.

You're not some kind of proponent of vitalism, are you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism

Well, you might not be, at that. You might just be pandering to some glib pop-philosophical version of consciousnessness.

Heavy for me...

I was saying the same thing. What's heavy is waving around dramatic lingo like absolute uncharted territory. It's not really the way to dispense with equally glib nihilistic crap like "waste of time and money", which is just the opinion of someone who habitually delivers emphatic opinions devoid of reasoning that supports them. Why don't we fix all the shit that's going wrong on planet earth before exploring space? Because every time you put out one little fire in a toilet, somebody else invents a new reason to whine.

I think it's probably a safe guess that humans will be walking around on the moon again within 20 years.