For All Mankind
I really enjoy the show For All Mankind.
It's a speculative fiction series about an alternate history where the Soviet Union wins the space race, and the downstream effects of that in America. I've never been much of a space guy; this show mostly changed my opinion a few episodes in.
Space is important because of the image it creates. It's a reminder of our collective will to accomplish great things. I don't personally care much about e.g. colonizing Mars in and of itself, but the simple ability to get there in the first place is a huge feat of technology and coordination. It requires policy, technology, health, and social innovations to make it happen. I feel like if we can go to Mars, we can do anything.
We've had a lot of great innovations in the world of bits in the past few decades, but none of that is really inspiring in the way that space exploration is. We need to be able to see things to feel things.
America should try to at least put someone on the moon again. It would rally people around a much needed, new vision for collective ambition and progress.
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I really enjoy the show For All Mankind.
It's a speculative fiction series about an alternate history where the Soviet Union wins the space race, and the downstream effects of that in America. I've never been much of a space guy; this show mostly changed my opinion a few episodes in.
Space is important because of the image it creates. It's a reminder of our collective will to accomplish great things. I don't personally care much about e.g. colonizing Mars in and of itself, but the simple ability to get there in the first place is a huge feat of technology and coordination. It requires policy, technology, health, and social innovations to make it happen. I feel like if we can go to Mars, we can do anything.
We've had a lot of great innovations in the world of bits in the past few decades, but none of that is really inspiring in the way that space exploration is. We need to be able to see things to feel things.
America should try to at least put someone on the moon again. It would rally people around a much needed, new vision for collective ambition and progress.