Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

NoRich4088 t1_je5pfgl wrote

Reply to comment by theWunderknabe in What science and technology should be here already (2023) but isn’t? by InfinityScientist

None of these things are actually useful, except camouflage. It's entirely pointless and wasteful to make space missions. The Apollo program was a waste of money.

1

theWunderknabe t1_je76660 wrote

I would say the active camouflage would be the least useful thing among this list. Developing space technologies on such a scale is sure to give a return on terrestial life, creating living space on or beneath the ocean has obvious advantages, as have solar and wind power clusters in appropiate locations.

Perhaps the holodeck thing is actually the least useful, but even that is creating massive technological progress from the sub-technologies required to get there.

1

NoRich4088 t1_je77s5d wrote

Talk to most people here and they say sending anyone to make a moon base is a waste of money, and Mars would never be terraformed no matter how much time passes.

1