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An escalator to nowhere: Science fiction lives and dies in space (open.substack.com)

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Space looms large in our futurist thinking. It's important to address what we misjudge to be possible in that realm in order to bring our expectations back down to Earth. Read more on Substack

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[–] Gronk@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Cool read, little bit of criticism but I didn't really see any arguments to support your point, I know it's a big issue and you're breaking it down into seperate articles which will probably argue that for you

All I could really see is that humanity assumes it has infinite progression therefore sci-fi level space travel is within perceived reach but science in reality is about working within limits.

I don't really disagree with that but one could argue that's a black and white way of thinking, humanity doesn't need infinite progression to move beyond the limitations you listed, granted it needs a lot of progress to do that but its not within the realm of impossibility.

Still a good read, lot's to ponder and fwiw I don't think we'll reach these goals either but not for the same reasons.