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Cake day: October 19th, 2023
  • ormr@feddit.detoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Elon Musk is elevating the global extreme right
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    3 months ago

    Stupid at this point in humanity’s history? Why should it be stupid to make it cheaper to fly payloads into space when we have unprecedented demand for renewable energy? Without interference of the atmosphere we could harvest solar energy much more efficiently and reliably.

    We are likely to see a space elevator build in 100 years and it will be a good thing for humanity. For example we’ll be able to remove nuclear waste from earth and send it away for good with negligible costs.

    These are just two economic examples. From a scientific perspective cheap space flight is valuable because it enables a lot of advances, like the next generation of space telescopes, working as interferometers without atmospheric disturbances.

    So I think it’s everything but stupid for humanity to expand it’s space operations if this is accompanied by meaningful regulations. The latter of course will require a lot of energy to achieve.

  • ormr@feddit.detosolarpunk memes@slrpnk.net•Oh shit, the economy!
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    4 months ago

    Okay, I understand that. I’m also worried that the wrong corporations are going to profit from it, as they’re currently doing. The “right corporations” however could play a big role in speeding up the changes we need so urgently. If that’s going to happen is a question of incentives. And incentives are created by regulating markets so that they optimise for the benefit of society. Of course I don’t see many politicians out there who get that or are eager to regulate markets whatsoever…

  • ormr@feddit.detosolarpunk memes@slrpnk.net•Oh shit, the economy!
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    4 months ago

    So I assume your solution is that we go back to the woods? Or everyone just become subsistence farmers?

    The lines that investors see go up and down are prices, detached from physical reality. The economy is a real thing that outputs goods and services that all of us use every day. How could we not be worried about it? We want to change the economy, decarbonise it, but we don’t want to get rid of it.