Great article in NYT Magazine about how development of space could have been Star-Trek-utopian but is instead a hyper-capitalist-free-for-all, by Jaime Green. "What kind of space-faring species do we want to be?"
Including quotes from @planet4589, Alice Gorman, and me.
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@sundogplanets @planet4589 There's an alternate universe in which after Apollo 11 we pressed on to Mars, the Belt, Jupiter's moons. I'd like to live in that universe. Instead for mission after mission we hit golf balls and drove dune buggies accompanied by radio chatter that consisted of "Now I'm going to go and look at the shadow on the other side of that rock"*. Until everyone said "what in hell is any of this for, anyway?"
*I've listened to it. It really is like that.
