Particularly relevant this week #personalperspective #gunskillpeople
I watched the Martian last night. Great movie. But it struck me the extent to which the world would (theoretically) rally to save one man on Mars irrespective of the cost and the risks while we can't seem to care enough to save people and children here on earth.
That's not to say the space program is a waste of money (quite the opposite), it's just interesting that we would be willing to rally resources for that kind of moonshot, but not the kind of moonshots we need here at home.
All the reasons are obvious of course, the man on Mars is a hero, he's very visible, it's not commonplace/background noise, and one man is a tragedy while many people are just a statistic. It just struck me as a clear example of how our brains and bias works.
Also it's just a work of science fiction and I am quite possibly over-thinking it