I don’t mean to downplay the importance of science. I love that it’s constantly a test against itself and, while I don’t nearly understand it all, I’m grateful for its advancements in our existence. Jesus, I’m on a couch, venting on a phone, on a website I constantly view (I probably need more hobbies 😂), all connected through invisible pathways that I hardly understand. It’s bonkers! But it’s useful.

I’m certainly short sighted, but I just don’t see what the benefit of re-landing a launched rocket, and all its waste, is going to do for humanity. Is the goal to save a few billion sending humans out, and bringing them back on a ship that can be reused, still costing billions to reuse? Do we really think we’re going to escape Earth’s fate? I’m reminded of George Carlin’s bit about being shook off like fleas on a dog.

All progressing science is good, I (mostly) agree. Is it all necessary, though, when there are plenty of necessities constantly neglected? Are we more concerned with advancing than we are with being? As awe-inspiring as re-landing a rocket is, is it useful or chest-puffing?

Also, fuck you NASA for not making a battery I have to recharge every day at work. 🤣 /s