Don't let them leave !

Don’t let them leave!

for Laika

From the list of demands against the so-called city of Olympia, WA:

Number 13. Cessation of all space exploration  

and 

Number 2. Blow up the sun!

 A ten point countdown as to why we oppose human conquest in space

Our hatred of manned space travel has nothing to do with our love of science fiction! Even with all the problems with the genre, there is much to love and cherish. So much so, that we confuse and transpose this love onto modern-day space exploration, which is not, and will never be, as free and utterly wild as our dreams.

If you watch NASA films and look through their documents, what you see is not space opera--not Octavia Butler or Ursula K. Le Guin--but a sterile lab bleached of all our dreams and wonder. You see hardware and machines, and men building structures for business. A  future architecture of our entanglement in domination. We’ve been fooled by their propaganda. 

The hero is always some North American, flaunting some pure, good guy hero mysticism, in a gleaming white suit. With flags and expensive, gold-plated spaceships. Either in ruins or in perfect order. 

NASA has the best propagandists in the world, even better than the police’s. And the point of this PR mission is to make space appear peaceful, serene, and sterile. But we know that the space industry is none of these things. 

NASA is populated with the soft-spoken, intelligent professor, a white man. This is the number one cause for alarm. That should concern everyone. Space is for white people only. Say it again, and watch the footage, the newscasts, the documentaries. Space is for white people and their property, weapons and robots. 

That is why rich, white billionaires are interested in space exploration. They don’t want us to see what lies behind space exploration.To look closer, without television lenses or cellphones. We need a countdown, for drama, for thrills. Like an execution. 

Countdown

10.  Space colonization and space travel are unethical 

 9.   The sun, moon, and planets are not our junkyards

 8.    Space exploration is colonialism

 7.    You will be left behind

 6.    Weapons development and militarism

 5.    Tourism: everybody hates a tourist

 4.    Nationalism: space exploration is statist 

 3.    Space exploitation is not vegan

 2.    Contamination! 

 1.    Space is only for white men

 0.    Wernher von Braun

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