Smith1980 brought it up, so I thought it would be cool to see the propaganda of science going on right now.
Science Propaganda
Small Nuclear Reactors are expensive and not the right idea
Creative people are evil. We should shun them. This is from a psychology magazine
This is from a social study and questionnaire system of finding out. Polarization has created teams so strong that even associating with opposing team members is bad. No one is allowed to have an open mind.
Heart problems have been around a lot longer than expected. Ancient Egyptian mummies show this. Apparently bodies from around the world and all walks of life throughout history had them. Our heart crisis is not what we think.
Permaculture beats out agriculture
Global Warming
Saguaro cactus are collapsing from the extreme heat last year.
Coral is being removed from Florida waters by scientists
Heat warnings from last year
The UN proposes a tax on gasoline to stop global warming
Tasmania is dying due to global warming.
Is it a coincidence that EVERY one of these is trying to stagnate developments that aid space travel?
Smaller nuclear reactors would help in space and developing habitats, everything is focused on keeping people contained in a smaller environment than expanding BEYOND Earth so that we are no longer limited to the resources of this planet only.
At least give us a moon base for fucks sake, be easier to start exploring space mining if we can keep 90% of the travel in a zero g environment.
That is a point I never thought about. Why would anyone want to keep power by demanding we only use their resources?
Space is literally the Final Frontier
The asteroid belt past Mars is the next El Dolorado in terms of resources, even the few ice rocks as water is even more valuable in space. When you examine just a few of the asteroids available, you realise we've been warring and dying over pocket change compared to the REAL money.
With spectrometry, most of the Sol system's asteroid belt is of known composition. There are asteroids out there with more gold and titanium and pick a metal, than the entire known quantity on the planet.
I've been an advocate for asteroid mining ever since I found this out a little more than a decade ago.
The neat thing is that on Earth drilling is limited by the tensile strength of steel. On say Psyche (an M-type asteroid with a diameter of 164km) a drill could go all the way to the core without even coming close to having problems. It would be incredible to get a core sample of it to see if is indeed a differentiated protoplanet core. Differentiation would mean that the very center would have an incredible amount of very heavy metals.
If Elon was able to successfully mine one in his lifetime, gg he wins as he could effectively hold the ENTIRE planet's economy at ransom by oversupplying Gold, Silver, Helium etc.
I actually have a thought in the back of mind that Mars is an secondary goal for him and its actually getting to one of Mars' moons as a way point to get to the belt.