Anyone else unsettled by Richard Branson and his spaceflight tourism enterprise ? Only £180,000 a pop ?
I don’t deny anyone enjoying a nice expensive holiday but all these millionaires suddenly developing space rockets seem dubious to me.
Millions and millions of pounds spent on space programmes when millions and millions of people are suffering starvation, disease and war.
I honestly believe it’s going to end up with the plot of the film Elysium.
In the future as the Earth becomes more ravaged by pollution, overcrowding, and other horrors, I think the rich will just blast off to somewhere else, leaving the poor to suffer after the uncontrolled greed of the super wealthy have ravaged the planet.
At some point in the future - a few billion years it’s estimated - when our sun supernovas we will have to have found somewhere else to live in the stars. I only hope that when mankind migrates off the planet, we ALL leave. Thoughts ?
