It’s a myth almost universally believed, that sits at the core of liberal technocratic thought, and has been embedded in practically every other work of speculative fiction for the last half century. You can sum it up like this: 'When we go into space, we will all magically become nice.'...It’s early days, but if we really want to create a progressive new world then issues like these should be at the hearts of our efforts from the very start. — The Guardian
The longtime space-age Manifest Destiny of humans inhabiting Mars and the prominently white, European male perspective that narrative perpetually emphasizes has become a bubbling multi-faceted discussion among science bloggers as Elon Musk's staunch ambitions to ultimately turn humans into a "multiplanet species" continue to develop. Stemming from that discussion, writer Martin Robbins of The Guardian contemplates whether or not humanity's eventual future on Mars can exist without the earthly issues of sexism and racism.
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the comments and twitter feed from that DNLee person (linked scientific american article) is just dumb. i get that she thinks diversity is important, but she seems to see that issue at the exclusion of all other things that need to be understood. at no point in her rambling, incoherent article was she anywhere close to a rational though. everyone who read her self-promoting narrow focused comments is now dumber for having read it. i award no points, and may god have mercy on her soul.
to say that another way, which is to say that every attempt at a conclusion in that article is incorrect and apparently based on low-budget 80s sci-fi movies, here is what we already know the future of space travel and extra-planetary space colonization to look like.
Guys, this is serious, from that pic above it seems Richard Balkins has been kidnapped and tied to a chair. someone please notify the authorities.
jla-x,you are right, we have not heard from Balkins in weeks, someone call the CIA or NASA
I'm offended at no mention of gay people or endangered species in that article. Shameful.
(Also, I'm guessing that the Pulitzer referenced on The Guardian masthead was NOT for anything churned out by the "lay scientist" author. Just a hunch.)
send all the mediocre white bros to mars.
Can we do this like survivor, where people get voted off?
I can think of a long list of candidates for the trip.
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