Remember "Mars colony in 20 years" for the last 20 years or so? Well, some bad news about that. Or maybe good news if you're tired of bullshit peddling. (old.reddit.com)

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https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/i-am-definitely-going-to-be-dead-before-mars-spacex-extract

That's right. Seems my-hero 's current culture war fixations have made him sufficiently less interested in his older bullshit promises.

He will grift on, but seems he's losing interested in the space grift. He's posting cringe Gambo "AI" videos showing Gambo's favorite objectified SV victim and mistreated actress being a DJ at a Gambo-setting dance party instead (not linking that shit, look for it if you dare).

The light of consciousness may not extend to the stars within his lifetime by his own admission, which means if it ever does it won't include his dim smoldering light nor will it be his bigoted and emotionally poisonous consciousness. sicko-wholesome

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[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 3 months ago

I would say his pivot to culture wars is in part because he wants to distract people from his promises. I don't think there is much more he can offer in the name of perverted progress. He already has his hands in spacex, hyperloop (RIP), neuralink, his garbage LLM called grok. Even the most highlighted promise of his, electric vehicles, has been a failure in both quality and proliferation. So he has turned into a kkklansman pope hide the fact that he is a huckster.

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago

Grok's woke! liz-society

[-] Clippy@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

sometimes at night, i look at the stars in the sky; thinking about all the unexplored habitable planets out there and the to be horrific deaths in the space mining industry because the space capitalists didn't have to pay attention to OHSA in international space

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago

I have hope that capitalism will destroy us all before we infect the wider galaxy with it.

[+] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

I didn't like the way The Dark Forest, the second Three Body Problem book, portrayed this. ”Of course there's no intelligent life out there, because they'll just be destroyed by a more advanced civilization once they find out, because everyone is always hostile to each other. This also extends to the last remnants of humanity in space killing each other.”

[-] Staines@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

To be fair to the TBP trilogy..

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Some civilizations have been fighting an endless transdimensional grudgematch to the point that successive inevitable dimensional collapses purge all the races that aren't hyper survivalist and also hyper advanced. The trisolarans are an example of a primitive civilization who's experiences have somewhat mirrored this extremely poisoned outlook.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Communists do the best sci-fi and proper alien aliens. China Mieville's Embassy Town being a great example.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

I don't know if Ursula Le Guin was really a communist, but she wrote some good aliens.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Certainly so some of her books featured communism or communal societies quite heavily. I'm pretty sure she would have been, or anarchist

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

Elon Musk said he's 'definitely going to be dead' before humans go to Mars

OK, then I hope it happens two days from now and you die tomorrow. hero-wink

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

Talking about Game of Thrones without using any of awooga libertarian-alert hypersus ? You're slipping, UlyssesT.

[-] SnowySkyes@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

That kinda sucks. My lifelong dream has always been to step onto another planet. I didn't expect it to happen by 2040. It would've been nice, but the dream seems dead now.