‘We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars.’ President wants astronauts to raise the American flag on Mars – “Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers. The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts,”
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/we-will-pursue-our-manifest-destiny-into-the-stars-president-trump-wants-astronauts-to-raise-the-american-flag-on-mars
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>”My message to Americans today is that it is time for us to once again act with courage, vigor and the vitality of history’s greatest civilization,” Trump said during his [speech inside the Capitol rotunda](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBdQr4QtogM). “The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons. And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet [Mars](https://www.space.com/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html).”
I agree completely.
And I’d like to nominate our dear leaders, Trump and Musk first.
The reference to manifest destiny is fucking insane.
Sounds like a sop to spacex is planned. Expect nasa budget to be gutted and given to his new pimp.
>[https://tooriel.substack.com/p/proof-of-love](https://tooriel.substack.com/p/proof-of-love)
Life is precious, all Biology is one, all species are symbiont with the each other and the planet we live on. Biology is the source of all known or identifiable consciousness and all known or identifiable reality. The universe/consciousness/reality is literally and factually biocentric at the very crux of falsifiability, at least from our current perspective, and that is in fact the only perspective we have. **We Humans, both as a species and as individuals, are inextricable from our environment, a perspective that sees the entire planet as an extension of our bodies is a valid one. We cannot separate ourselves from our environment and survive either as individuals or as a species. We cannot make a rational case that we ever have or ever will be separate from the same.** The world we live on is a vital part of our collective body, and that collective body includes Humanity itself as it exists with an undeniable but limited measure of dominion over the Biology and physical reality we were borne into.
Normally I’d be all for this kind of forward thinking. But Donald’s latest crypto-scams make me certain this is just a way to funnel ungodly amounts of money to Musk, Besos et al.
Anyone who talks about sending people to mars should be ridiculed. It is the most ridiculous idea the absolutely no merit besides ego.
Everything that needs to be done on mars can be done better and cheaper with robots.
In deep space radiation, the astronauts will look like giant tumor filled Mars potatoes within a few days. Not gonna happen. Like, ever.
Okay then, double NASA funding AND give more contracts to SpaceX. If he wants Americans on Mars and in space he needs to fund it.