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Whether big or small. We all have that one thing from Scifi we wished were real. I'd love to see a cool underground city with like a SkyDome or a space hotel for instance.

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[–] GhostPain@lemmy.world 118 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Socialized healthcare. A living minimum wage. UBI.

A permanent base on the moon. We should have had that 40 years ago, minimum.

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

The moon base (and/or moon orbit base) isn't just cool, it would facilitate building ships in space that don't have to escape the gravity well. That and asteroid mining (to get materials for ship building) would be such a huge step to having a real presence off-planet.

Mine materials on asteroids, send them to the moon refinery and manufacturing facility, send parts up to lunar orbital ship building facility, send ships to Europa, Ganymede, etc.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] GhostPain@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Socialism technically, but I get your sarcasm. I hope it is sarcasm.

Well they did say Sci-Fi and we all know how likely that stuff is. So I think we're "safe" with Late Stage Capitalism.

The technology has never been what is holding us back.

we're commies on the moon, we carry a....