Paul Spudis has some interesting ruminations (with a comment from Neil deGrasse Tyson).
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Paul Spudis has some interesting ruminations (with a comment from Neil deGrasse Tyson).
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Well, it’s certainly an act of faith to believe that Ares will fly, let alone do it safer, faster or cheaper.
i think he should have said “transcendent values”, rather than a deity per se. The need for transcedence seems to be hard-wired into at least a consistent percentage of the human race; it just takes a wider variety of forms these days. Many spacers have some form of transcenent values. In fact, many of the fundamental ideas of space colonization come utimately from transcendent belief systems; Konstantin Tsiolkovskii was a disciple of the Russian thinker Fedorov, whose “Biocosmist” philosophy held that humanity was the universe’s tool for understanding itself, and in order to do that humanity had to spread itself throughout the cosmos. This agenda is laid out in his Beyond the Earth, but without the explicit philosophy (or theology, if you’d rather), since the Soviet government did not approve of it. Pretty much all the subsequent spacer themes can be found there.