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Comment Given that countless other human endeavors ... (Score 2) 30

... are way more stupid and/or pointless and more expensive I'd say exploring space should be one of our global scientific priorities. Perhaps even more so than yet another collider for even smaller sub-atoms or yet another Tokamak that goes nowhere. I'd perhaps even make that a new sort of quasi-religion, since the benefits from work on this is likely only to pay out when todays generations are no more.

As for saving this planet and keeping it livable for humans: We can do both and then thousands of other things on top of that at the same time. And we should absolutely do all that while we still have an advanced scientific high culture.

Comment Re:Meh? (Score 1) 37

Source code is the what/how, whereas documentation, manual pages and other records are the why/who/when/where.

why/who/when/where is irrelevant without what/how, which tells us which one is more important.

We know a lot of the why/who/when/where, what was missing was the what/how. Now we have more what/how, so finding more of the other stuff is what's more important. But that's not because what/how isn't most important, it's because we have it now.

Comment Without my money (Score 1) 30

We don't need to explore space right now, we need to repair our biosphere.

There's nothing in space that will help us do that in time to actually do it.

If people want to spend their own money doing it that's fine, although then there's a conversation to be had about where that money came from.

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