Post #4048883

2026-07-23 23:25 UTC

This is #Caltech #space culture by the way. As I've said, from what I saw, the California Institute of Technology only makes scientists by accident because their chief pursuit is cranking out engineers and managers for #aerospace and the military-industrial complex. Caltech is practically a wing of the military all to itself, and so the mainstream Caltech culture is dominated by an unholy, wholly horrifying disdain for the intellect. You don't need an intellect to punch numbers into computers, and having an intellect gets in the way of remaining emotionally stunted and frozen in a ghastly parody of childhood. (cont'd)

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-23 23:31

#Space is terra nullius to #capitalism and to Caltech and to every ambitious scam artist in the #tech sector. Elon Musk's rhetoric betrays the emptiness of their vision: to them it's merely a place to plant flags, which Musk attempts to pretend is "spreading the light of consciousness" (I don't think he even says human consciousness) and "making life multiplanetary". And I can tell you from experience, he refuses to treat with the possibility there's life elsewhere in the Solar System. I am quite surprised--no not really, I'm not surprised any longer--that U.S. #journalism hasn't noticed this obvious fact about Musk, that he's totally and utterly devoid of curiosity. (cont'd)

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