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2021-09-26, 01:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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How vapid were the early 2010s?
I remember the early 2010s as a more vapid time. My fellow college students seemed more interested in partying, becoming rich, and watching reality TV. Reality shows, doctor soaps, and cop shows were the dominant forces on TV.
Yet during this same time period geek culture loses it's stigma. The success of LOTR and Harry Potter blew the door open. Game of Thrones plants fantasy firmly in the mainstream not to mention the growing success of comic book movies.
The sci fi genre experiences a resurgence with movies like "Gravity", "Interstellar", "Guardians of the Galaxy", "Arrival", "The Martian", "Big Hero 6", etc. as well as books like "The Expanse".
Despite there being more space fiction than ever before and games like "Kerbal Space Program" it seems like during the 2010s society lost much interest in space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbIZU8cQWXc
What happened? Why did society lose it's adventurous side? How did we become so risk averse? Was it the space shuttle disasters? Was it the comforts of modern life? Hey life is good enough so why bother working toward a "Star Trek" like future?
Why were young people more pressured to conform during this time?
Why not aspire to be athletic, fun loving, and yet smart like these badass people called "astronauts"?
Would the world be a better place if astronauts became cooler than reality show stars and professional athletes?Last edited by CmdrShep2183; 2021-09-26 at 01:59 AM.
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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{Scrubbed} (and taking into account that pretty much every decade has been damned as more trivial than the last), but it can fairly easily be reframed as "what was the driving force in changes in Euro-american society and culture during the 2010s?" and I think there's a fairly straightforward answer to that: it's the crash of 2008.
The next few years were spent clawing a way out of the hole left by that. People lost jobs, lost their homes: the sort of sci-fi aspiration the OP talks about came to feel not only less achievable but like more of a luxury in general. Companies became more cautious, adopting a safety-first approach. Innovation took second place to security. Even once the direct impact had worn off, it still left its scars and we're still living with them.
It's by no means the only factor, but I think it's the biggest one.Last edited by truemane; 2021-09-29 at 10:18 AM. Reason: Scrubbed
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The space thing went bad with the decision to cancel Apollo.
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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Everything went to heck when people could carry a video camera on their shoulder and a VHS recorder in a satchel.
Gone were the days of professional production; the average person could now record anything they wanted!May you get EXACTLY what you wish for.
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Budget constraints. Found this quote from Neil DeGrasse Tyson:
It’s vastly cheaper to send robots — in most cases, a 50th the cost of sending people. Robots don’t much care how hot or cold space gets; give them the right lubricants, and they’ll operate in a vast range of temperatures. They don’t need elaborate life-support systems either. Robots can spend long periods of time moving around and among the planets, more or less unfazed by ionizing radiation. They do not lose bone mass from prolonged exposure to weightlessness, because, of course, they are boneless. Nor do they have hygiene needs. You don’t even have to feed them. Best of all, once they’ve finished their jobs, they won’t complain if you don’t bring them home.
So if my only goal in space is to do science, and I’m thinking strictly in terms of the scientific return on my dollar, I can think of no justification for sending a person into space. I’d rather send the 50 robots.
But there’s a flip side to this argument. Unlike even the most talented modern robots, humans are endowed with the ability to make serendipitous discoveries that arise from a lifetime of experience. Until the day arrives when bioneurophysiological computer engineers can do a human-brain download on a robot, the most we can expect of the robot is to look for what it has already been programmed to find. A robot — which is, after all, a machine for embedding human expectations in hardware and software — cannot fully embrace revolutionary scientific discoveries. And those are the ones you don’t want to miss.
When the budget shrinks to the point where you can't send one person, you start sending 25 robots, and leave it to the start-ups to ferry Captain Kirk.
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Judging by the all scrubbed posts I'm gonna suspect this is not the site to discuss such things.
The neutral response for me is that there is far greater accessibility for the "average person" to express themselves. With so much more media being produced on all levels chances are a lot of it wont appeal to you. It also doesn't represent broader societal trends. Just because a bunch of random folks write and talk about space doesn't the people in positions of actual power care to explore such space travel.
I, personally, don't think we're more vapid today. I would argue we're pitching too far into sanctifying absolutely everything as a deeply serious problem. Everyone's got an opinion and they feel directly entitled to have that opinion taken as seriously as those of a professional by din of social media.Last edited by Hagashager; 2021-10-04 at 04:17 PM.
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If all you want to do is science, you don't need people at all, even on Earth. It's not about science. Science is important for learning about things, and making things, however there is more to life than learning and making tech.
Colonising space is about living in space. There was a time when all life on Earth was in the seas. Then some plants colonised the land, then I think insects, then fish. We are decended from the fish. Space is much bigger than the land on Earth was.The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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Lose interest? That implies there was ever interest in the first place. No one has ever cared about space. Ever. {scrubbed}, and interest has waned ever since.
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There were a lot of people watching their TVs to see Neal Armstrong take that giant leap for mankind. The picture was not very good, and the sound wasn't brilliant, but it was live from the fricking Moon. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean nobody does, sometimes you are with the majority, sometimes you are on your own, and usually you can't tell which is which.
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The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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I'd add that many of us weren't even from either country concerned. My parents thought it important enough to make sure I was awake to see it (gone midnight during a school week to boot), and one of my friends still resents his parents not waking him up for it.
Lots of people care about "Space", even now. It's just not bundled up in a big event like the Moon landing(s) were.Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
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The early 2010s never happened: NASA faked them!
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By pop-culture output I’d say you’re correct!
I can well remember thousands of films, songs, and television shows made in the 1960’s, ‘70’s, and ‘80’s, and with a rising population the output of those should be more, but I can only remember a couple dozen made in the 1990’s and less than a dozen made in the 21st century, therefore not as many years have passed since the 1980’s as has been alleged.
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You know what really grinds my gears? This Neil Armstrong. Neil Armstrong with all those weird outfits, jumping around there on the moon, wearing a glass bubble with your weird outfits. Ya know? You're a... You're out there jumping around and I'm just sitting here with my beer. So, what am I supposed to do? What you want? You know, are we gonna go to the moon? Is that what you're trying to - why why are you leaping around there, throwing that moon dust all up in my, over there in my face? What do you want, Neil? Tell me what you want? Well, I'll tell you what you want, you want nothing. You want nothing. All right? Because we all know that no man anywhere wants to go to the moon, and to titillate us with any thoughts otherwise is - is just bogus.
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In the early 10's, I was a young teenager, only tangentially aware of the bad stuff in the world, therefore it was objectively a better time for everyone, you can't convince me otherwise.
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I think it's easy to forget that we are living in a more or less purely subjective world. Sping water has basically always the same temperature of around 22°C. When I drink it in the winter, it seems warm, when I drink it in a hot summer, that seems cool, but it's always the same 22°C.
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Growing up, I saw the seemingly impossible happen:{Scrubbed} the world banding together to battle the threat of the ozone hole / establishing the FCKW ban, the end of the long 80s stagflation, {scrubbed} and the beginning of the digital age.
I guess that is when you have to be very carefull:
- My parents grew up in the {scrubbed} and had to rebuild everything. From their perspective, I already had it easy.
- I grew up in a time and age when {scrubbed} was part of everyday life and simply had to be accepted. Compared to that, things like the subprime crisis seem trivial.
.... and so on.
So I guess we struggled with our monumental tasks and got them done, passing a better world and the technology we invented on to the next generation, enjoying a lighter, happier time for a while, thereby forgetting that that next generation is struggling with the monumental tasks of their time and are far from resolving those.Last edited by jdizzlean; 2022-02-16 at 07:45 AM. Reason: scrubbed
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