The Con of Space Exploration

Few policies show such a lack of education and knowledge of physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics as those that advocate for any level of space exploration. The human body is incredibly fragile and cannot naturally exist outside of a very narrow temperature threshold, must have plenty of oxygen, creates waste we have to deal with, and cannot breathe the CO2 we create. As a culture, we have not advanced too far beyond boiling water with fire to create our electricity. Fire does not work in space and it will not work in a space vehicle. In addition, the human body is designed to endure a constant tearing down by gravity. When this destruction does not occur, the body can become incredibly weak and brittle. The longest anyone can be in space is at most a couple years. As soon as the human body is in open space, there is no way to stop the various destructive properties of stars as well as objects that are too small and moving too fast. Humanity has not figured out an efficient way to get anything of significant weight out of the atmosphere and into the path of the Moon so that the capsule will be able to land on the lunar body. The fuel is both dangerous and expensive, since rockets have not evolved past solid/liquid fuel based on combustion — more fire that will not work outside our atmosphere. I know that Boomers get all wet and steamy when they hear “space” and “Mars” and “Moon,” but I am here to tell you that it is impossible.

Nothing that has been promised is possible. There will be no Space Force, there will be no colonial mission to Mars. It is time to use this money to develop services on the planet. Deal with it: this time period is not capable of reaching another planetary body. The only planet we are capable of inhabiting is currently going through an extinction period, and it is all we have. The money that is being used to pursue space exploration is a waste. The more things that are shot into the atmosphere, the more dangerous space travel will become. As we currently are technologically, socially, and culturally, we are only capable of making it more difficult to pursue space travel in the future by filling the upper atmosphere with debris. Give it up, there is no space savior. We are just going to kill ourselves.

The planet is being destroyed because of income inequality. Corporations have no loyalty to their labor or their consumers; the only loyalty is to the people who provide them the resources to live. Leaders have no loyalty to their people, as they are only loyal to those who help their government stay in power, and it is unnecessary to garner the support of the majority of a country to rule it without question. Every individual is motivated by the creation of imaginary wealth in the various stock exchanges. Countries will manipulate the markets if they are able to, even if it makes a future for their citizens more difficult. The scale of investment between the world’s space program today and the Apollo project is incomparable. NASA’s budget in the ’60s was magnitudes higher than it is today before inflation. With inflation, the proportion of the United States budget spent on the Apollo project would likely end poverty, end global homelessness, and give a UBI to every human on the planet. The discrepancy between funding shows how futile this entire situation is. It costs more than a billion dollars to get a human into orbit, not allocating any funding for their return. The fastest human-created vehicle does not have a speed that is remotely comparable to the fastest speeds known, and it was done through the manipulation of gravitational forces. The object currently traveling the fastest any human contraption has ever gone was propelled s in a way that used gravity to accelerate as it screamed around several planets to be directed toward its true path. It took years to reach that speed and the object endured radiation that no human could survive, no matter the resources spent.

While I was in college, I interviewed an individual who worked on the Cassini project and did a report that was not well received, but that wasn’t unusual for papers in my early college period. It is not possible to use the same technique for Cassini for a human mission, but there was something that was incredibly intriguing: the ion engine. I really was interested in this.

People think that space is a perfect vacuum. Well, it’s not really a perfect vacuum; there is a ton of stuff up there, but it is not to the extent that the human body has adapted to. There isn’t the pressure that the human body was designed to handle, but it’s not a vacuum void of everything, it just holds very very little of anything. The ion engine was designed to use the material of space as a jet engine uses the atmosphere closer to Earth. This was the ticket back to the Moon and possibly Mars. If this had been developed and implemented, humanity would have a method of accelerating outside of Earth’s atmosphere that did not involve a gravitational slingshot. That was the first, best hope and I have no idea what happened to it.

If humanity wishes to travel to space, it must figure out how to launch interstellar vehicles without the influence of weather on Earth. Current launches designated for inter/intra-solar-system travel are planned far in advance. Without any way to accelerate a body outside of Earth’s atmosphere, course correction is very, very limited. This means slowing down or avoiding an accident. Whatever is in the path of the vehicle on launch day, at launch moment, if it could intercept the path of the vehicle, it will do so, whether we are aware of its existence or not. Launches need particular weather and conditions. As the planet dies, weather is going to change. Currently, space programs are located in areas that experience hurricanes and the tendency seems to be for hurricanes to grow to incredible sizes and then stall. If a hurricane stalls over a major space port, it would mean that trillions of dollars of work could be destroyed with no way to prevent anything.

My greatest and most extreme disconnect with people might be the fact that I have existed in several realities over my lifetime. The one my mind creates for me at all times, the one the idiot created for me, my mother, and good people, and society. There are people who look up to the sky and dream of a world that could be, and there are people with their heads in the ground that deny the world is the way they have made it by hoarding resources. To encourage this, hatred, discrimination, grift, and corruption are seen as valid methods of existence. As things are progressing, it may be impossible to get a human out of the atmosphere in ten to fifteen years. All that we have is the reality that I share with everyone else, the reality I see dying.

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