1/ As extraordinary a scientific achievement as it is that NASA landed on MARS today, there are serious spiritual and moral dimensions to it that should not be ignored.
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2/ Right now we seem on track to take with us to outer space the same consciousness that has done so much to destroy the earth. Space exploration is a magnificent thing; the weaponization of space is a tragic perversion of our values. Yet that is the path that we were on.

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3/ Let’s teach our children today not only a deep respect for the scientific feat accomplished by the Mars landing, but also a reverence and awe before all creation...including all planets. Space exploration should make us a more humble, not a more arrogant species.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
If you’re worried about the Space Force Guardians of the Galaxy, they don’t even have uniforms yet.
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Yes probably scumbags human beings will stuff a lot of waste there. Nuclear ?
Replying to @marwilliamson
Tell it to Biden and the Military Industrial Complex to which he serves...
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Please share more on how you think the weaponization of space will happen.
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There's an element of Truth to what she's saying. Space travel should help us to cultivate a planetary rather than regional awareness Reading good science fiction in the 1970s did that for me. It changed the way I have saw everything around me, and saved my life later on
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Yes, Marianne! I love space, so it was hard to trash Space Force. It got weird when they turned it into a heritage thing. What I want is space exploration and diplomacy in space, not militarization / colonizer mentality
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Yes, I was just saying that ~ MAYBE we need to take care of our own planet, people and other species first before we go off to another one with the same problems.
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Yes. Humans should remove all their junk from the moon, too, and deep-six all ideas of building colonies or space stations or anything on it. We have no reverence for what we don't yet understand -- and we don't know squat about space and the power of its places.
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