Hey Folks, I Wrote A Thing And Im Proud Of It! Its A Short Sad Story About A Man Dying Alone In Deep

hey folks, I wrote a thing and I’m proud of it! it’s a short sad story about a man dying alone in deep space. check it out!

No one warned me that coming into your own also includes grieving the life you were conditioned to believe you wanted.

Untitled.

i made a comic in google slides for some ungodly reason

Summer Wind

Unmute!

been thinking about this a lot lately and it made me realize that the language we use to talk about our future presence in the solar system reflects ideas that shouldn’t cross over with space exploration. words like “colonize” and “settle” in the context of human life on other worlds brings up disquieting imagery of rampant exploitation without regard for the local environment or the people involved, i.e. imperial colonialism. this is most literal when said by people like Musk or Bezos who want to do exactly that, and I’m convinced that it’s in our best interests to stop them. we have to change many things about our civilization before we’re truly ready to begin building an ethical, sustainable presence in the solar system, because right now we don’t even have an ethical, sustainable presence on our own home planet.

TL;DR - we, as a global society, need to decolonize ourselves before we end up colonizing space.

we’ve got work to do, folks.

I think a lot of space enthusiasts, including myself, can get carried away when talking about space exploration so here’s a reminder that “space exploration and multi-planetary civilization good” and “manifest destiny bad” are both extremely important and CAN coexist. just because we’re smart and we’re alone in our solar system (we think) does not mean we own the universe. the cosmos is not made for us, we simply live in it. our future lies among the stars, yes. but that future is as students of nature, and we should exercise our tremendous technological power with care and humility. we are children of the cosmos, not lords. we should be explorers, not conquerors. we’ve made those mistakes before.