Musk's superhuman vision promise is dangerous: researchers

Why We Look to the Stars? For Greed or Necessity?

Since movies were invented, the subject of travelling off to a distant planet has captured the complete attention of the public world wide. Reasons to travel into outer space vary.

The scientific motivation to explore the unknown, expanding our knowledge and human experience.

The natural human response as one looks to the skies..."what the heck is up there"?

Since WW2 a strategic nature to the off world has existed for military reasons

Inevitable global over population seeks the question "where do we go now"? Poor people ask "what about us"?

Human leaders in a world like conflict such as the "cold war" challenged America and its allies to reach the stars in competition with their ideological opponents.

World wide expenditures upon all things outer space have reached the trillions of dollars. Various governments claim these costs that could be invested in feeding and housing the world must be made for strategic, prestige and most importantly economic reasons. The military do as they always do, try to militarize every aspect of the human experience, seeing threats everywhere and spending a lot of money on problems that can be more easily and less costly solved. And yes travel to outer space is uniquely desired, and both personally and national prestigious. 

Every time a entrepreneur looks to the stars they don't see adventure, exploration and discovery but monetary possibilities. It's all about profits and possible financial wins not for a people or nation but for corporations and extremely wealthy individuals. What do I mean?

Scientists have divined that Mars is an excellent source for diamonds and other gems, as to essential minerals. As maybe Jupiter and Saturn. An international team of scientists have said that Mercury may have a layer of diamonds 10 miles (16km) thick near the boundary of the planets core. Gem stones, energy sources, precious minerals for our EV Sector to name a few items these business folk are planning to harvest, actually buying up acreage on and in these planets already. Purchasing billions of dollars of property on these planets with the expectation of future financial windfalls. The Journal Nature Communications suggests a major economic up turn in intergalactic exploration is well on its way creating jobs for those educated in all things galactic. 

The world has spent trillions of dollars that if spent on worldly needs would have solved many of the globes difficulties, but business has one priority and that is to make massive profits. Helping their neighbors, communities and nations out of poverty, defeating addictions, resolving many of our problems created by Climate Change are not priorities. Oh No. NASA remains in the management of the government while its funding, sourcing and dependence upon the corporate world remains. 

We do have some side bar issues such as knowing when a large asteroid may hit the world and destroy it, or when and where the sun flares will disrupt global communications and possibly super heat the globes water ways. Thousands of inventions for space travel have been introduced to humanities global economy as well. 

Human greed fuels the space sector with its financial lust to consume. Corporations are now looking to the stars to see where, what, how and when these precious minerals can be harvested. Having destroyed the earths resource base, they now look to the stars with the hope of forgetting the earth and creating a new beginning some where else. 

Steven Kaszab

Bradford, Ontario

skaszab@yahoo.ca

I have an idea. How about finding a way to fix yourself first, Elon?

St. Elon couldn’t fake being even a normal human, much less “super”…

I doubt in general that it works, for similar reasons that scientist has written, but on the other hand, why should it be dangerous if it would work anyway some day in future? Helping all the blind , vision impaired and vulnerable people, or just only everyone capable of looking deep into space or magnifying small things like the best microscopes, who doesn't want that potentially for the future and why should that be dangerous?

Sounds great - if it works.

Buy his lies, buy sufferings, good luck!

Musk has long promised that his Neuralink company was working on implants that could restore sight to blind people, telling his 190 million followers on X in March that the product would be called "Blindsight".

Blindsight is a plot element in the Peter Watt SF novel.

Like with taking socialist SF writer Iain Banks 'neural lace' his business model looks like trawling SF lit for VC pitches.