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A Strange Stain in the Sky: How Silicon Valley Is Preparing A Coup Against Democracy (allr.cat)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The first, and also the most futuristic techno-utopian one, is the colonisation of Mars. Elon Musk founded Space X in 2002 (Peter Thiel was the first outside investor) with the idea of re-founding humanity. It’s all there: the call to save humanity by turning it into a multi-planetary species, the desire to start from scratch without the legal constraints of Earth, and the will to break with the established order. As you can read, half-hidden, on the terms and conditions page of the Starlink service owned by Space X:

The parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

A mars colony won't come. I just doesn't make any sense. These billionaires simply use that vision for marketing and obfuscation of their inhumane ideas (TESCREAL).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd imagine it will come around, but not the way people think, and not for many more generations. I mean, unless we just kill this planet before we get there, which is where I'd put my money.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If earth is killed its still a better option than Mars.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Right, Mars is so dead and hostile and far away that earth will be a much more livable habitat for humans for a long time, even if we further destroy our ecosystems here. If we can't make it here, we can make it nowhere else.

[–] BeNotAfraid 1 points 8 hours ago

Yes, but Elon Musk is an idiot and his maternal Grandfather is the former head of the Technocratic movement. Tesla is a meme stock, doesn't mean that people won't put their faith in this vision of futurism and it doesn't mean that they won't destroy our planet in the attempt to achieve it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The technological barriers for a self-sustaining colony are high for sure. I hope humanity eventually does get there, but if it’s all controlled by oligarchs then it’s hardly progress for humanity, despite any major technological breakthroughs.