The assholes stole the future from us. We need to take it back.
It’s shockingly often that I think to myself, “what are kids gonna read about this in history books when I’m an old man?”
Bold of you to assume we'll have books. Or a future...
what will the discount viagra voiceover guy tell my grandkids about me one day?
Hopefully the truth.
But seeing how history still needs to be retold in some places, it might take a while.
It depends on who or what takes over the failed USA, I guess, because "history is told by the victors", at least initially.
I'm thinking about that as well, I cycle through worry and apathy.
This one hurt a bit too close to home.
In high school and college I did believe that in my lifetime humanity would really start space exploration and colonization.
I studied engineering and did everything I could to contribute to this great advancement of humanity. I got a double master degree in aerospace manufacturing, specialized in the machining of exotic alloys used in aerospace, worked on rocket engines, developed new machining techniques that unlocked new possibilities for aircraft engines performances and was working my way up to be one of the few people in Europe highly specialized on machining technique for these alloys used in aerospace.
Then in 2016 I read more and more about "Collapse", more specifically the collapse of our thermo industrial civilization. We are not going to colonize space, we will be lucky if most of humanity does not die in the coming century.
So rather than contributing to the future of humanity with my work I was contributing to worsen the condition of life on earth by accelerating climate change and the uses of resources.
I had a bit of an existential crisis at this point.
I wouldn't consider making better aircraft engines as accelerating climate change, necessarily. It's not like you're making them burn bunker fuel.
Even in the best scenarios where we actually deal with climate change, we weren't going to eliminate commercial flight. We night reduce it by having reasonable high speed train options, but across the ocean is certainly still flight, likely LA to NYC as well.
We shouldn't need NY to DC flights though.
I understand your crisis, but I would not hold your career choice against you for a second, just like I wouldn’t for engineers still refining piston engines for automobiles.
People are going to use them for a long time, so if your niche is making that more efficient then it’s worthwhile.
Innovation is good. The issue is mass use of plastics and excessive consumption, not advanced aerospace engineering
Technically we did get space travel.
Just not for the peasants, unfortunately.
My dad was a contingency engineer during the Apollo moon shots and worked for JPL most of my life. I was sold the dreams as a toddler of reaching for the stars, Seeking out new life and civilizations etc.
And I'm really sore that we gave up that for a global religious supercult and a slow death killing the global ecology.
well cheer up we are witnessing the biggest scam of the last couple centuries. I mean who can claim to have seen a scammer on par with "I am a princess from nigeria wanting to transfer funds to your country" become the president of the US? Nevermind the guy, the guy's wife has her own bitcoin lol. It does not get more scammer than this.
...back to the future was WAY off...
Back to the Future 2 nailed it.
...i hate having to upvote you...
Space travel. Hyperspace/warp drive. Space exploration and colonization. Ubiquitous helper androids and flying cars.
We wanted Star Trek. We’re getting an even stupider Elysium.
We are living through history, there is now only one question for eveyone. Will you be a passive bystander or will you help history push forward? Will you be remembered as someone who stood by or someone who resisted? The time has come for people to act, for those to do what is to be done. Do not fear the dictator nor the capitalist for they tremble before the toiling masses yearning for liberation.
DEATH TO REACTION, DEATH TO SUBVERSION, DEATH TO TYRANNY
But yet you run the risk of becoming the thing you hate. That's why you're always on the losing side. It's a fucking paradox. If you do, ever go coco for cocoa puffs. I hope you punch upward and follow through. Cuz if you don't, you'll create the very reason why we all get put into fucking death camps.
You are literally a reactionary, by the way. Anarchism is a serious political thought. And definitely misunderstood. I'm a libertarian socialist who likes tankies.
Im an Anarchist, I simply think that briges should be built with those who are willing to fight alongside us
Look on the bright side. At this rate, we'll get both futures eventually. In 2100, the United States's presidentking has a frightening power he frequently yields...banishing his political enemies to Mars!
I no longer need the movies to titillate me. Fucking reality is just insane.
Who needs The Onion anymore?
NASA is about to have its budget slashed, which will be devastating for space science. Private industry does not and cannot fill the gap. Please write to your congressman to save NASA and science funding: https://www.planetary.org/advocacy-action-center#/53
I’ve imagined a history book with one of trumps dumbass fucking quotes in it too many times.
School children in the future being forced to include “covfefe” in their reports.
