We know that human conquest of outer space is impossible. Yet, this pipe dream is still considered some kind of sine qua non of the Western Idea of Progress. The Space Age, remember? We simply *must* conquer space, despite the obvious impossibility of such an enterprise.
It would probably be easier to build towns in the Antarctica, or a colony in the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
Yet, nobody has ever proposed such a scheme.
It´s almost as if something ideological, indeed, "religious", was going on here...
Kinda like when we landed on the Moon, they looked around and said "Nope, guess there's nobody here after all!"
ReplyDeleteExactly, showing the futility of the entire enterprise...
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