Science fiction predicts two futures: utopian & dystopian.

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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/116385980708269650

Science fiction predicts two futures: utopian & dystopian.

In the first, we seek out new life, new civilizations, and boldly go, etc.

In the other, astronauts are sent by a mining company, owned by Elon Musk the 23rd, to a distant planet to get infected by a vicious alien so it can be weaponized for war.

Keep NASA, and embrace socialism — that bit's also important — and we get the first one. Trump, Musk, and capitalism give us Alien.

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