Space tourism in its current state is an extremely selfish endeavour with the resources required to send someone beyond earth’s atmosphere, let alone bring them back alive.
The sheer toxicity of space treats enjoyers on the internet is damning to me, too. When ideas like “the solution to climate change is humans must become interplanetary species™®” get actual pushback (or if someone mentions Gil Scott-Heron’s “Whitey On The Moon” poem) such space treats enjoyers don’t appeal their beliefs; they get dogmatic and sanctimonious and condemn the heretics as “emotional” or even say really whitey coded shit like “have fun wallowing in mud huts” like the only choices are some crude racist caricature of primitivism or bowing to
The sheer toxicity of space treats enjoyers on the internet is damning to me, too. When ideas like “the solution to climate change is humans must become interplanetary species™®” get actual pushback (or if someone mentions Gil Scott-Heron’s “Whitey On The Moon” poem) such space treats enjoyers don’t appeal their beliefs; they get dogmatic and sanctimonious and condemn the heretics as “emotional” or even say really whitey coded shit like “have fun wallowing in mud huts” like the only choices are some crude racist caricature of primitivism or bowing to
Seeing the cost of ISS per person per day makes me wonder how many of these goofballs think they’re gonna get to go