Philosophy ramble

Why not? instead of why?

My travels are far from over, and I see clearly that my view on the world is limited. But in the places I have gone this difference has been the main limiting factor in people lives. Another example: “why even bother” instead of “watch this”. People are fine with the second only if it is short lived and easy to escape from. Maximum glory from minimum effort. It is a strange thing to build a foundation but nothing on top of it. Regardless of religious belief, or lack of one, it is known that this is the only life we get- and then most people go different ways in what comes after. But we are here now, we exist now, we can do now, and there are no second chances-good luck on reincarnating if that’s your thing. The biggest example I can think of is rocket science- I’ll keep the big words down where I can. So we had Cold War 1 and it ended with one side on the Moon and the other sulking, bloody indirect conflicts to the side. But since then there has been next to no major innovations, at the very least the pace has slowed from cheetah to snail. Our best rocket formula is UDMH with NO4 as an oxidizer, problem is that it is very toxic and was discovered in 1954-ish. The point is that it’s been well over 60 years and we still don’t have anything better. I’ve heard it said that we would have to redesign our rockets because a better fuel would push the payload too far- I’m calling bull on that, you can add more science to your payload and get it to the exact same spot. Or re-light your engines and have the thing land so you can use it again instead of throwing it away (falcon 9 reusable). Then you have people who attribute some form of safety to the tried and true, don’t trust cell phones and the internet or you will be killed by ghosts from the cloud that somehow cant get through duct tape. Or even better, lets use 8-inch floppy disks to protect our nations nuclear launch program! And my favourite, the worlds not getting warmer-93%(ish) of the worlds scientists are conspiring against our way of life. I suppose at the end of the day it comes down to choosing between being afraid or lazy, and adventure with learning. The last one takes power away from those who are used to the old ways, are you your master or are they?