I used to be a proponent of a rosy sci-fi view of exploring the stars and the importance of expanding human “civilisation” because… well, you just gotta, I guess!

I don’t know if it’s my age or just the apparent state of the world but I’m much less enthused and actually probably quite opposed to it now. Listening to Jeff Bezos talk about the grand undertaking of humanity that the likes of Blue Origin and Space-X are partaking in to build habitable space-stations and moon-basses and I’m just like… why, though?! Where do you think it is that we all need to be in such a hurry?

Alright so we’re running out of resources and burning the planet alive with all this crap we’re producing… but half the time it feels like we’re only producing this shit so we can afford to stay alive while you’re spending billions and trillions on space rockets!