Opinion: Astrotopia vs. the green hills of Earth
I was born into a family that made its living in the space race.
Not a scientist, rocket or otherwise, I was nevertheless forever enthralled with matters extraterrestrial. Lots of us in Southern California, where space travel was born, were that way. It wasn’t until I first traveled on this planet, at 21, that I encountered the non-enthralled. I remember having a discussion, bit of an argument, with an Irish poet over a pint about whether or not space travel was magnificent. “Who cares?” he said. “Plenty to occupy us right here on this green, fragile Earth.
She compares today’s Mars-colonization mania with the imperial Christianity that led 16th-century popes to “give” Africa to the Portuguese and the New World to Spain. Today’s space-conquering “manifest destiny,” she writes, is the same impulse “that carried white settlers across the American continent” and that makes “the NewSpace claim to the whole solar system and eventually, the galaxy.”
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