Why doesn’t the average person care about space exploration and colonisation?

Dumb faggot, if we can make space tourism a thing and generate economies of scale, it’s the first step to becoming an interplanetary species.

Asteroids contain a fuckload of metals.

With fertility rates below 2 there's no need for space. You can't expand with a falling population.

Because it's a silly pipe dream fueled almost entirely by the science fiction drama. Those big dead rocks are really far away and we can't reach them.

Convince me. Why should I care?

conquer space.. for what? haven't we fucked up enough here yet?

Tourism is dead, thanks to Corona. Who will win, a hermetically enclosed space ship full of people, or some microscopic little buddy?

The average person is a retarded wage slave. They can't even think figure out how to improve their own station in life, how are they going to have the foresight to think about space exploration

They did 50's to 70's was all about scifi, space, aliens and colonisation of planets.
Then the march through the institutions was complete.

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Being ambitious on such a scale is reserved for a few percentages of the population if not less

It requires Great Men (or Women) like Elon Musk to move such things forwards
Much like the age of discovery was initiated by a very few number of Great Men like Magellan and Columbus