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Originally Posted by peter12
Well, one thing your graduate program didn't teach you was critical reading skills because the tone of my posts was NOT "what did space travel ever do for me?" it was commenting on the fruitless and nihilist pursuit of founding other colonies in space which is utopia of many who support the space program.
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You are only speaking of an unspecified segment of those who support the space program. How many, and who are these folks, and why is this a "fruitless" pursuit? You seem to have a very established sense of human purpose; otherwise, I fail to see how you could insist so arbitrarily on what constitutes a "nihilist" or "utopian" vision.
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Originally Posted by peter12
I know it's helped drive alot of technological development over the past 50 years. I am totally aware of its assistance in diverse fields from robotics to agriculture. My point still is that that advancement comes at a steep price that many do not acknowledge.
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I will reiterate the insistence of the above posters: what is the "steep price"?
Furthermore, I have noticed that in a lot of your posts, you seem to put a great deal of priority upon "acknowledgement". In this case, technological frontiers are to be frowned upon unless there is some sort of universal recognition of some unspecified cost that you continue to allude to. I have mentioned this before, but in the first place, it is extremely presumptuous and pretentious of you to assume that such decisions are made without a consideration of costs and benefits. What you ought to recognize is that your own perspective of "cost" is quite plausibly not shared by everyone: what
you think science should be doing is not necessarily what science should be doing. Secondly, whether one chooses to "acknowledge" costs doesn't necessarily result in a higher virtue. Why would it?
Unless I am misunderstanding you, I would greatly appreciate some clarification both on
why "acknowledgement" is so critical, and how it will improve scientific pursuits; and what the supposed high cost is that all of us among the unenlightened are missing.