I’m not nearly as polarized as your presumptions suggest. Yes, I think the whole Mars landing thing would be Colonialism 2.0 and more reason for earth to pollute space with its junk while ignoring problems at home.
But we have that now. We have plenty of reductionist, linear-minded people who presume you can cleave a human from its microbiome, hermetically seal it, shoot it into space, and what appears at the other planetary end is the exact same thing.
And we have always had people who want humans to conform to their things, and people-oriented humans that want things to better augment our core humanness.
We don’t need to wait for a questionable video feed on Mars for that.
I’m not nearly as polarized as your presumptions suggest. Yes, I think the whole Mars landing thing would be Colonialism 2.0 and more reason for earth to pollute space with its junk while ignoring problems at home.
But we have that now. We have plenty of reductionist, linear-minded people who presume you can cleave a human from its microbiome, hermetically seal it, shoot it into space, and what appears at the other planetary end is the exact same thing.
And we have always had people who want humans to conform to their things, and people-oriented humans that want things to better augment our core humanness.
We don’t need to wait for a questionable video feed on Mars for that.