Post #4048884
2026-07-23 23:22 UTC
It's a dead thing to #technology people, #space. It's a vast quarry for materials, a place to decorate with flashy showy things like #Starlink space pollution, a graveyard for human failings and human refuse...and above all else space to them means continuation of their overdriven culture of conquest. Space is big, big enough to keep alive the grubby tyrannical daydreams of a million would-be Emperors of the Known Universe.
That implies something very upsetting: the high-tech barons and their pet scientific authorities, Richard Dawkins especially, have already erased the possibility of extraterrestrial life from their imaginations. It's a complication they do NOT want in their simple frugal lives of insatiable rapacity.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-23 23:25
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)